# How do fruit flies find my bananas?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-fruit-flies-find-my-bananas/445541 "2008-04-16T02:05:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-fruit-flies-find-my-bananas/445541/21 "2008-04-25T02:06:42Z")

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Keep them in the fridge. Also the bananas.

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-fruit-flies-find-my-bananas/445541/22 "2008-04-25T02:27:29Z")

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I went to the Bahamas for a week and a half. I left some browning bananas in the garbage can. Man, it was an swarm when I came home. We zip locked everything for a while. They went away pretty quick.

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