Another thing that I wish I didn't now know.

[xiphias]

Fruit flies like brandy, and can fly through the open part of a speed pourer.

Now I get why a) most places I've worked have a "take the speed-pourers out and re-cap the bottles at the end of the night" policy, and b) the few that didn't have those speed pourers with the mesh on the end.

Fortunately, it was a bottle of the CHEAP kind of brandy that you only use for mixing.

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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

I asked a friend who worked in a fruitfly lab how they got rid of the flies that got away. He said they put a funnel into a nearly-empty bottle of brandy and left it out.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

slugs like alcohol, also - to get rid of slugs in the garden, put out a cup of beer - they will slither in to drink the beer, get drunk, and drown - oh, dear, there are some things I wish I didn't know!