We returned home a couple days ago from vacation to a kitchen full of fruit flies. How do I get rid of them for good????
2007-07-18 08:51:04 · 8 answers · asked by angelica 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
My husband threw out some watermelon right before we left and left the bowl in the sink. He didn't even rinse it out. I just put some apples and grapes in a mason jar with some vinegar and juice in it. I also put some apples in a jar with a little bit of juice and tried the funnel. I'll see how it works.
2007-07-18 09:29:39 · update #1
Fruit flies a are seasonal problem most often being severe in the late summer and early fall. Sometimes they seem to take over a home or other building. They are small, quick and if you look closely are almost an orange color. They are seen on and near fruit, vegetables, and trash containers. Populations increase quickly in the fall when fruits and vegetables are ripening in homes, garages and gardens. There is a relationship between outdoor trash, dumpsters and indoor populations. When it gets too cool for these pests outdoors, they dwindle indoors also. Removal or refrigeration of fruits and vegetables can establish control. Dirty trashcans and dumpsters should be removed also from garages or cleaned often.
put 1/2-1 cup of Apple cider Vinigar in a custard dish along with 3-4 drops of dish saop. I put it on my countertop over night.
2007-07-18 09:59:32 · answer #1 · answered by dee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fruit flies will come where there is fruit to eat and nest in. They do to fruit what normal flies do to meat. to rid yourself of them get rid of any left out fruit. If they still lurk around get a large mason jar and affix a funnel to the top. put a few bits of fruit in the botom of the jar and leave it out for 4 to 5 days. The flies will go in, but will find it difficult to get out because of the funnel shape.
2007-07-18 08:57:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They might not be fruit flies. They could be Gnats, they look like fruit flies. They live of the fresh soil & dead root´s from your household plant´s. So the best way to rid them is to dry the plant´s out for a couple of days , also put the stopper in your kitchen sink at night. This way they won´t be tempted to settle in this nice damp place . ready to invade , your plant´s next day. Having said this, if you have ripe fruit in your kitchen , best keeping it inthe fridge . Then you will know if it´s fruit flies or not
2007-07-18 09:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get rid of any fruit or vegetables that are rotting on the counters. Put out a bowl of vinegar to attract them and drown them.
2007-07-18 08:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, they are stepping into from the open abode windows. Do your self a want and save them closed for a collectively as. p.c.. up some fly paper strips & draw close them up close on your trash or the place you have the main undertaking. Take out your trash as much as achieveable (i want to advise taking the full can outdoors till now beginning it to take out the trash). do no longer flow away any grimy dishes interior the sink or any meals mendacity around on the grounds that still will entice them. you may get rid of the priority quickly sufficient.
2016-11-09 19:55:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, find the rotten fruit or food and get rid of it if they dont go away get a sticky fly paper a nd hang it where there are the most. if this does not work you might want to get a bug spray even before you do that.
2007-07-18 09:00:45 · answer #6 · answered by wednesday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lmao...i was just about to post and use the exact headline u did lol...someone in my house must have left something because we are INFESTED with fruit flies so im gonna try some of the ideas that were given to you lol.
2007-07-19 03:15:36 · answer #7 · answered by myourchisin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find the source (rotting cherries?) and clean it up (empty the
garbage?). Watermelon? Cantelope? ...
2007-07-18 08:57:47 · answer #8 · answered by Answernian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋