Food Fruit flies and storage jars

[Martinhouse]

I have a lot of fruit flies in my kitchen during canning season and while cleaning up my counter today I discovered something disturbing.

I use the tall square Golden Harvest glass jars for a lot of my dried herbs, etc., and I found fruit fly eggs all the way around the threaded parts of the jars, under the lids.

If you store anything in this type of jar, you might want to check the contents, If fruitflies can get through those lids, moisture could possibly get in there, too.

This wasn't just one jar lid that I didn't put on tight enough. It was all of the square jars.

Carol

 

[Publius]

We get them here and never had the problem you're describing and we do store many things in canning jars. We had go arounds with Pasta bugs on and off over the years but we went and bought a food saver and have the attachments to vacuum seal Mason jars and so any imported bugs in the foods we buy cannot live in a vacuum nor can their eggs hatch. Pasta is gone over in the kitchen and then put into half gallon Mason jar and sealed with the food saver. Rice we just put it into the bags and do a vacuum and seal on them to store rice works great. We even have whole 5 pound bags of flour and sugar slipped into a vacuum seal bag and pulled a vacuum and sealed.

 

[Martinhouse]

Publius, I've never had this problem with mason jars with the rings and lids. I do use those to store a lot of things. I will have to check to see if the fruit flies can get around the threads on those lids that are specially made for mason jars. So far, I've just found them in the entire threaded areas of the square glass Golden Harvest (and the Chinese knock-off Harvest Time brand) cannisters with the plastic lids.

Carol