One day, they were just there.
Five, six, seven fruit flies hovering noiselessly around Susie McCartney-Nelson’s kitchen.
The same thing happened to Debra Schnabel, who found a handful of the obnoxiously resilient pests hanging around her compost bucket. Macky Cassidy, who said she had a particularly bad blight of the bugs at her house this summer, said they practically “invaded” her kitchen.

Schnabel, who is diligent about cleaning her compost bucket and keeping food…
