how do you get rid of fruit flies?

Answer 1

Make a funnel trap:
Make a cone out of the sheet of paper (like a funnel). Tape the outside of the cone so that it stays in place.
Check that the cone fits snugly into a glass or cup.
Cut off the tip of the cone so that you now have a funnel.
Pour a small amount of cider vinegar into the glass or cup. (Rum mixed with orange juice also works very well - additionally, a half teaspoon of baker's yeast in water can also suffice)
Insert the funnel into the glass or cup, but don't let the bottom of the funnel touch the liquid. Tape the funnel in two or three places from the outside so that there is no gap between the glass and the cone.
Place your newly created trap on a flat surface. The flies will be attracted by the smell of the fruity vinegar and fly into the cone. The flies will slip down the cone and will either land in the vinegar and drown or will be trapped and not able to get back out. If you leave the trap overnight, the trapped fruit flies will eventually fall into the vinegar and drown.

Make a soda bottle trap:
Remove the lid and label from a clean, empty plastic two-liter soda bottle.
Carefully remove the upper third of the bottle by cutting along its circumference at approximately where the top of the label used to be.
Put an attractive liquid such as orange juice or cider vinegar in the cup-shaped part of the now-severed bottle.
Turn the cone upside-down and insert it into the cup-shaped bottom part of the bottle. Seal the seam at the top of the bottle with duct tape.
Fruit flies find their way into the bottle, but they can't get back out. After most flies are trapped inside, simply seal the bottle in a plastic shopping bag and throw out.

Make an oven trap:
Remove all available food from kitchen. Clean the dishes, place open items in ziplock bags or the fridge.
Open the door of your oven and place a piece of fruit (banana or kiwi peels) in there overnight.
Wake up early the next morning and quietly close the oven door.
Turn on the oven to 400ºF/200ºC for about 10-15 minutes and majority of your fruit flies will be gone.
Clean the oven thoroughly.

Make a glass trap:
Put a piece of fruit in a glass.
Cover the glass tightly with plastic wrap and secure to the glass.
Put a small hole in the plastic. The fruit flies go in and can't get out.

Make a wine trap:
Put a small amount of sweet wine in a little bowl.
Take your finger tip and put a very tiny amount of dish soap on it, preferably diluted
Barely touch the surface of the wine at the center with your finger tip.
This breaks the surface tension of the wine. The fruit flies will be attracted by the scent of the wine and drown in it. Normally the surface tension of the wine would have protected them from drowning, but with it gone, as they touch the edge of the wine to drink, they will stick to it, fall in and drown.
Remove the food source. Besides just trapping the fruit flies, try to eliminate whatever is attracting them. Notice where they congregate. In addition, check these frequent problem spots:
Cover your fruit bowl or store fruit you wish to keep in the refrigerator.
Remove and discard any overripe fruit, especially if the skin is broken.
Wash the dishes and wipe up crumbs and spills from your counter and floor.
Take out the trash and store trash in a covered bin.
Take out your compost and keep your collection bin covered and food additions to your pile buried beneath yard waste.
Find their nest. It is likely that if you have a fruitfly problem there will be specific places where they are breeding - usually in a piece of garbage that has fallen into a tight space or which you've forgotten about. If you remove the opportunity for them to nest, they won't breed, and the problem will diminish.

Answer 2

Air tight containers to keep any ripe fruit in means they won't be attracted into your house. Empty the trash daily if it has any fruit remains in it

Answer 3

Get rid of the fruit.

Answer 4

I'm told that leaving the last inch of a bottle of red wine open where they are works - never tried it cos I've never managed to leave even an inch of wine in a bottle!!

Answer 5

Guh beer gnats. Fly paper gets em, and throw away any beer cans laying around, thats what got me. Last resort you can bug bomb.

Answer 6

at all your fruit.



clean everything (spcifically the trash barel) and storage containers

Wait a week.

Restock. You should be fly free