<human>: This happened a few months ago during the summer when I had a fruit fly problem in my apartment.

I need to provide a little bit of context regarding my TIFU. I currently live in Tokyo. I basically use Amazon to fulfill all my household needs due to my insane work schedule.

I should caveat this story in that that I am theoretically "fluent" in Japanese - I work in the language as a consultant. That's what makes this so embarrassing. 

There were fruit flies everywhere in my apartment, and it was driving me crazy. I bought a bunch of different fruit fly traps from a local store, but nothing seemed to work. I decided to go onto Amazon for something more... potent.

After searching the Japanese term for fruit fly, I found a ton of fly traps, one in particular had a lot of fruit flies in it. It was expensive, too - around $20 USD. This looked like the fruit fly trap to defeat all other fruit fly traps.  A few days later (it wasn't part of prime...), the package arrived.

I opened the box, and my heart jumped - I saw a bunch of moving critters. I quickly realized that I had bought a fly colony instead of a fly trap. All those flies so neatly contained in a container were for experiments - they weren't trapped by this thing, they were preserved. I immediately panicked and dropped the fly container, which caused the flies to start escaping the thing. I jammed it back into the box, took it immediately to the garbage. I was going to link the container, but I think it's banned?

Not only is my fly situation worse now due to the introduction of some super fruit flies, but I am too afraid to order more fly traps from Amazon. It took me days to tell people about my fly situation, which they all thought was hilarious and recommended me to post.

Can you condense the text into a few key points?
<bot>: I tried to solve my fly problem but made it worse by buying a fly colony and becoming Lord of the Flies.