Help getting rid of fruit flies

[v-girl]

I've done the same vinegar thing. No funnel necessary. Once they hit the soapy vinegar they drown. We had a horrible fruit fly problem when I got back from the hospital with the baby because there was a bag of trash in the kitchen for the entire three days we were gone...


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This is what works for me too. I've added wine to it before.


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[alison]

Fruit fly trap! Works great and is really cute. You all are nuts!

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Terro-Fruit...2500/203225201

[spotty_dog]

Are you saying my quart Mason jar with 1.5" of vaguely amber liquid isn't really cute? I'll have you know I've caught 7 fruit flies in under a day!

[PrincessFiona]

They came back. I guess their eggs weren't all gone. ugh.

[ides]

I hate fruit flys! I do the trap and it helps a lot. Another thing that seems to help that I just tried and voila much less bugs is washing all the fruit when I bring it home.

[lovelight]

PSA - Fruit flies lay eggs in sponges. Be hyper vigilant or you too may have maggots crawling out of your sponge when you pick it up. Thank goodness it was a sponge I hadn't used in a while, but I seriously almost threw up. No wonder they kept coming back after I thought I had killed them all.



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[ides]

PSA - Fruit flies lay eggs in sponges. Be hyper vigilant or you too may have maggots crawling out of your sponge when you pick it up. Thank goodness it was a sponge I hadn't used in a while, but I seriously almost threw up. No wonder they kept coming back after I thought I had killed them all.



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Ewww. Thanks!!

[JDAZ11]

Gross. Of course, I have a few all of a sudden. I tried soup and vinegar yesterday without any luck. Wonder if the seventh generation dish soap isn't soapy enough to trap them....

[Momo]

I once had a plastic pitcher filled w/white vinegar, that I used to soak my shower heads in(to de-calcify/clean). I forgot about it and left it sitting on my tub once. When I noticed it a couple days later, I saw fruit flies had been attracted to it and drown! I thought I had discovered a green way to rid us of the annoying things!!! When I thought I was sharing an amazing revelation w/my friend, she burst my bubble and told me that she'd been doing that for year! She said apple cider vinegar seems to be the most alluring to them!

I just pour straight apple cider vinegar (undiluted/ and w/out adding anything) into tiny glass mason jars or small juice glasses and place them,out of the way, on my kitchen and bathroom counter tops. Fruit flies, for whatever reason, when not on/in fruit, seem to prefer to light on bathroom mirrors. They get really bad around here when folks allow their citrus trees to drop it's over-ripe fruit and allow it to rot on the ground. I hate putting fruits and certain vegetables in the fridge but during certain times of the year we HAVE too!

PS this will take awhile... so you must put all fruit away don't leave fruit juices out in cups. The receptacles of cider need to be the only source that attracts them for several days. Eventually you will have little containers of dead pickled fruit flies!!

[JDAZ11]

Fruit flies gone. Stink bugs have arrived. Awesome!