How to get rid of fruit flies?

Answer 1

put a 1/4 cup of beer into a small dish, put a couple drops of dish soap in it, cover it with saran wrap and poke holes in the sara wrap..this attracts them and traps them.

Answer 2

The easiest and most necessary solution is to get all the fruit out of the house, or into the refrigerator. This is critical. Once you've got fruit flies, they will use a banana or most any fruit left out to keep multiplying. Make sure you haven't missed anything.
Even if you get rid of all of the fruit, it takes a while before they starve out. There are various methods you can use to get rid of the last generation.
·Many folks leave a wine bottle with some old wine in the bottom. Lay the bottle on its side. The flies go in but they can't find their way out and eventually drown in the wine. Just don't forget to tell your partner not to drink that wine. A sip of that will really get them howling at the moon.

·Another fun method is to grow predacious plants in your kitchen. We have a Sundew plant that tempts flies to a sticky end with delicious looking drops of sticky fluid that traps them. The fruit fly ends up the dinner rather than the guest. Our Sundew has caught numerous flies and is almost able to keep the fruit flies in check. It eats so many of the little guys that I think my plant is gaining weight!

·The final method (and the most sportif) is the vacuum cleaner method. It's really effective and quite a bit of fun. Simply use your hand attachment to suck the little buggers right out of the air. It helps to use a piece of banana or rotten fruit, or even a glass of wine or vinegar for bait. I've become quite good at nailing the little guys. It's fun to suck them right out of the air. In fact, most of the time I'm a little disappointed when they are all gone. The fruit flies will congregate around the bait; then whoosh - into the vacuum cleaner they go.

By the way, if you have something that flitters about and looks like fruit flies, and you are sure you don't have any rotting fruit around, you probably have fungus gnats instead. These little guys lay eggs in the soil of your houseplants and the maggots feed on the organic compost in the soil. Unfortunately they also feed on the roots of your plant.

Answer 3

Get rid of the unrefrigerated fruit FIRST! Check for rotting potatoes, onions or anything fresh from your garden that you're trying to 'Kitchen Ripen'.

Remove any plants that you keep the soil semi/moist on.

Pour Chlorine Bleach or straight Ammonia [NEVER Mix Both!!!!] down the garbage disposal twice a week. And never allow foods to just "sit" in a garbage disposal ! _Instead_ you should take time to run it for at least 30 seconds with the cold water on full blast.

If the flies already seem out of control, I highly recommend spraying WINDEX all over them or using a "Strong" vacuum cleaner to suck them out of the air. The above is mostly how to avoid them becoming a problem in the first place. :))

Answer 4

Put some vinegar in a small glass and set it where ever you are having the problem. The vinegar attracts the fruit flies and they end up falling in and drowning.

Answer 5

I used to work in a genetics lab with fruit flies! We had a lot of escapees. This is how we controlled them... We put a little bit of something to attract the flies (yeast and water, fruit juice, etc.) in the bottom of a jar. Then we made a cone out of a piece of paper and stuck the skinny end in the jar. You only need a tiny hole at the end of the cone - just big enough for the flies to get in. We sealed the cone to the jar with tape. The flies can find their way in but cannot get out. Try it. You just might be amazed. :-)

Answer 6

Hi there!

Well what I would suggest to do is to buy some Raid Fly Spray. They have a Fruit Fly spray. I think that you can find it at WalMart Target K-Mart. It also depends on what fruit.. if it looks bad throw it away, if you didn't know that (just teasin). Bananas usually carry them mostly, and if it was bananas don't buy them where you bought them, if that makes sense! Hope this helps your problem out!

Thanks!

Answer 7

This is cheap and inexpensive and it works, I used it this year.
Put 2 oz of cider vinegar and two to three drops of liquid dishwashing soap into a small juice glass and leave it set out, I done several small glasses with this mixture in it, wait a few days and look thru the bottom of the glasses, you won't believe how many are in there, also check for rotten potatoes and onions that may be setting out as they attract them big time.

Answer 8

I assume they are in your kitchen. Remove all food from counters and wash everything down well. They only live a few day and if you get rid of the food they will die. Empty the garbage and wash that area also.

Answer 9

I asked this same question on here a while back. The answer I got that worked was a sauce dish of vinegar with just a drop of dish soap. Set it on the counter. Use a couple, they get i it and drown.

Answer 10

throw out the rotten fruit