Dill speaks with Press Herald about fruit flies
Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about fruit flies in the home. “This is the time of the year,” Dill said of the insects invading your house. “The fruit flies are out and about. Everything is ripe. They come in from the outside. You can bring them in on anything. Tomatoes, bananas — they really love bananas. It’s very easy to do that.” Fruit flies don’t sting or itch, don’t ruin wool clothes, and they don’t carry disease, according to the article. “They are just a nuisance. And they can set up housekeeping and once they set up housekeeping, you’ll have them around,” Dill said. “But there is nothing really bad about them.”