2006-09-23 13:43:43 · 15 answers · asked by b 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Easy... keep all fruit in your fridge and wipe everything down with bleach. Within 3 days they will be gone. On third day wipe down with bleach again. Tis the season for fruit flies!
2006-09-23 13:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by cutecarebear228 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are non-toxic, sticky strips for catching flies you can buy in a local hardware store or grocery market. They're little tubes that contain a wound up sticky film that you stretch out and use the tack that comes in the package to hang it in an out-of-the-way spot. It attracts them, they land and stick. No poison, but can catch in your hair....oops. And you do have to remove them when they're full. They really do work, esp in places where you are cooking or canning and don't want anything to contaminate your product. Inexpensive and they start working quickly. Keep fruit that's getting overripe or bad tossed out. Don't feed the flies. Best of luck!
2006-09-23 13:52:05 · answer #2 · answered by Kitsune 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coat the inside of a Mason jar with a sticky liquid like diluted honey or vegetable oil. Invert the jar over a bait such as crushed bananas. Rest the jar upside down on two blocks of wood to allow flies space enough to feed on the bait. After leaving the bait, they fly upwards to the light portion of the jar, rest on the sides and are killed or get stuck.
2006-09-23 14:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by Voa Voa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a small shallow dish and fill with apple cider vinegar, add 2 drops of dishwashing liquid. Do not stir. Sit somewhere out of the way. The vinegar attracts them and the dishwashing liquid prevents them from being able to fly away after being in the vinegar. Works great!
2006-09-23 17:52:19 · answer #4 · answered by CJ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wash the fruits in salty water. It won't spoil the taste and it ...sanitize the skins so the fruit flies do not show up that quickly. by that time, you've eaten the fruits!
2006-09-25 15:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont leave fruit out. Leave a class of wine out overnight and the little buggers with drown in the glass as well.
2006-09-24 03:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get rid of any rotten fruit or etc. first then .try. a cup of apple cider vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing liquid and the will attract to it and will be gone this works well
2006-09-24 05:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by Grannie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana."
sorry, no help at all but it is all I know about fruit flies.
2006-09-23 19:21:04 · answer #8 · answered by XT rider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple. 1/2 cup of apple cider viniger and 2 drops of dawn dish soap. Mix well and leave it sit. The flays will eat it and die. Sounds like a bad way to put it, but it helps.
2006-09-24 10:10:25 · answer #9 · answered by mag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my husband like the fruit left out to ripen and be at room temperature. so we get fruit fles. I place it in the refrigirator, and we have no fruit flies. Are you able to do what you want ? then refrigirate your fruits
2006-09-23 13:50:09 · answer #10 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋