Fruit Flies Everywhere!?

Well they started with the occasional halfs of bananas that always get left around my house, and they seemed confined to the kitchen. I was ok with that, since the situation still seemed in control. well I've been more careful with the rotting fruit, yet the fruit flies are still here. now there in my bedroom, and in the bathroom, hell there everywhere! The kitchen seems to be the worst, with clouds of them flying around attempting to gain entrance to my mouth, how can I rid my self of this scourge?

Fruit Flies Everywhere!?
For more information go to link listed below.



Hi, I accidentally discovered an easy non-toxic way to kill fruit flies. Leave a glass of champagne sitting on the counter, ideally in a shallow wide mouthed glass NOT in a champagne flute (more surface area.) The fruit flies will swarm into it and die happy. Okay it was Italian Asti not real champagne, but I don't think they care.



We bring large quantities of old produce through our kitchen (it doesn't all go into the compost, some gets eaten) so fruit flies are a recurring problem.



A glass of cider vinegar mixed with some water and a few drops of dish soap will also do the trick.



Yup, or beer/fruit juice etc. To improve effectiveness- put the mix in a jar with plastic wrap over the top. Wrap an elastic around it to keep it in place. Poke several holes in the top. Fruit flies get in there easily, but have a harder time getting out and are more likely to get stuck in the solution.



I had the same happy accident, but mine was an all but emtpy half gallon bottle of raspberry vodka. Big Tall bottle with narrow neck at the top, near nothing got out once they went in. It was sitting with the other recycling waiting to be dealt with after a camping trip (which means it sat for a few days before I got around to looking at it). Now I save those empty half gallons just for that use, keep one around the compost bin etc.
Reply:You need to get rid of any food source so you should take all of your fruit and put it in the fridge.



Empty your trash and look for any bits of fruit and fruit scraps laying around.



You can make a trap by using apple juice or fruit juice, add some dish soap to break the surface tension. Cover with saran wrap and punch some small holes in wrap, about 1/8" in diameter. They'll drown themselves in the juice.
Reply:clean!

leave a window open to get them out or get some fly paper. start putting fruit in the fridge.
Reply:Good luck.
Reply:Make a trap--get a clean, wide-mouth jar, a piece of paper, and some tape and a piece of cut fruit (like an piece of banana). Make a funnel out of the paper and tape it to secure it. Place the fruit in the jar. Then place the narrow end of the funnel in the jar and secure it with tape. Put the jar in the place where the fruit flies are the most (likely the kitchen). The fruit flies go in, but they can't get out!
Reply:"Fruit Fly/Gnat Trap

Recipe #18753133

This will help take care of those fruit flies that gather around the stuff you have to take out to the compost pile or those bananas you haven't gotten around to baking with yet. The photo I posted (the one with the cherry %26amp; grape tomatoes) shows several fruit flies on the paper already (and a couple are in the vinegar, though you can't see them)--not even three minutes after making the trap!

by anonymous23



1 trap 1 min 1 min prep



3-4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

1 piece of white paper

1-2 drop liquid dish soap



Pour apple cider vinegar and drop of dish soap into glass or jar.

With the paper, make a cone with a 3/4-1" hole on the bottom. The cone should sit on the glass rim without the tip touching the vinegar. You may have to squeeze-shape the cone a bit to prevent gaps between the paper and rim.

Every day or two, switch out the vinegar. (You'll see when it stops being as potent. The flies/gnats will stop going in.).

EDITED: I tried a new brand of cider vinegar (darker than the first) with this trap and found that it let the fruit flies live longer--by a week or more! A friend suggested adding a drop or two of dish soap, and it killed the fruit flies even faster--in hours--than the first cider vinegar traps had."



This was rated 5 stars, so it must work. Give it a try. :-)



www.recipezaar.com
Reply:Buy an insect bomb and carry it around the house spraying it anywhere you see a fruitfly
Reply:Put out some vinegar in a shallow dish and put a drop or two of dish detergent in it and mix it around. If they like vinegar they will land in it and drown.
Reply:I had the same problem at work and now at home due to my dad making homemade wine with some hand picked grapes that we brought home one day from a farm. Heres an easy, cheap way that you can get rid of them by just using some household items.



In order to get rid of these things, make sure that you don't leave any food out in the open by putting them in containers. Especially with fruits since they rot faster in room temperature and it will give them a place to breed. Fruit flies don't live for very long, but food out in the open is always a good breeding ground for them and you will find them increase exponentially.



Second, you'll need something with a narrow opening; that way they will get in easily but have a harder time getting out. Then put two packets/ two teaspoon of sugar in it, fill a little less than half of it with apple cider vinegar (NOT distilled or it will not work), and a few droplets of dish soap. Make however many you need and put them in the problem areas.



If you don't have anything with a narrow opening, you can use a paper/plastic cup that's been wrapped with saran wrap with a few holes poked in it and a rubber band to keep it in place, or you can put a funnel over a jar. And if you don't have any apple vinegar, anything sweet will do like wine, champaign,beer, even sugary water filled with a piece of fruit; it's what attracted these things to my home in the first place.



Once that it done, CLEAN! While the fruit flies may be gone, it doesn't mean that their eggs aren't. Fruit fly eggs are tough, and if you don't clean the house, you may find them back again ten days later (which is the gestation period of the egg). Use bleach or ammonia to clean your house and a vacuum with a hose to get to those corner areas. Don't forget to take out the garbage since it is also a breeding ground for these things.



Believe me, this works really well. I have done this not that long ago and put it at the source of the problem, and five minutes later it was swarmed with live, and dead, fruit flies. Or if you're really impatient, make the cup version, don't saran wrap it, wait a bit for them to swarm to it, then take a bottle of Raid and spray like crazy. :)



Hope this helps!