Tephritidae

I came home from Vancouver to find our toilet overrun with pesky little fruit flies. It's a bit of a mystery why they have all congregated in that room as we don't really make a habit out of storing fruit in there. Anyway, around lunchtime today they decided to make a move for my room. 

After several hours of chasing them down and smashing them individually with a plimsole, Annabel suggested spraying them with windex.  This was a great suggestion in theory but when you spray flying bugs they fall, and in this case they're falling onto my bed.  WikiHow suggested the "fun and highly effective" method of using the back of a hairdryer to suck them in and fry them. 

Guess it's back to squishing them with my shoe.

Is it weird that I still say a silent apology every time I kill one?