How do you get rid of fruit flies in your house?

Question

Please don't say get rid of the fruit. I have started to put most of the fruit in the fridge and I clean it right when I get home.

Answer 1

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass
fill it 1/2"
with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing
liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to
the cup and gone forever!

Answer 2

I had the same problem at work and now at home due to my dad making homemade wine with some hand picked grapes that we brought home one day from a farm. Heres an easy, cheap way that you can get rid of them by just using some household items. In order to get rid of these things, make sure that you don't leave any food out in the open by putting them in containers. Especially with fruits since they rot faster in room temperature and it will give them a place to breed. Fruit flies don't live for very long, but food out in the open is always a good breeding ground for them and you will find them increase exponentially. Second, you'll need something with a narrow opening; that way they will get in easily but have a harder time getting out. Then put two packets/ two teaspoon of sugar in it, fill a little less than half of it with apple cider vinegar (NOT distilled or it will not work), and a few droplets of dish soap. Make however many you need and put them in the problem areas. If you don't have anything with a narrow opening, you can use a paper/plastic cup that's been wrapped with saran wrap with a few holes poked in it and a rubber band to keep it in place, or you can put a funnel over a jar. And if you don't have any apple vinegar, anything sweet will do like wine, champaign,beer, even fruit with sugary water; it's what attracted these things to my home in the first place. Once that is done, CLEAN! While the fruit flies may be gone, it doesn't mean that their eggs aren't. Fruit fly eggs are tough, and if you don't clean the house, you may find them back again ten days later (which is the gestation period of the egg). Use bleach or ammonia to clean your house with and a vacuum with a hose to get to those corner areas. Use that to also pour it down your drain. Also, don't forget to take out the garbage since it is also a breeding ground for these things. Believe me, this works really well. I have done this not that long ago and put it at the source of the problem, and five minutes later it was swarmed with live, and dead, fruit flies. Or if you're really impatient, make the cup version, don't saran wrap it, wait a bit for them to swarm to it, then take a bottle of Raid and spray like crazy. :) Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Hi Kristie, I have not tried this yet but I am told that it works really well. Take 1/2 pkg of dry yeast, 2 Tblsp syrup (any kind) 2Tblsp sugar and one cup of water. Put it all in a jar and mix it up really well then poke holes in the top big enough for the flies to get into and "VOILA" Fly soup. Hope this helps. Jean

Answer 4

Take your garbage out and anything contaminated with possible fly larvae or eggs. Always cover fruit and sweet things. I would recommend putting your garbage can underneath the sink or in a inclosed area. Flushing out your sink with bleach. Hanging up fly strips. Putting out honey watered down or sugar water in a vase. Even syrup would work. You need something sticky sweet that they are attracted to and cant move once they touch it.
GOod luck

Answer 5

the flies are nesting somewhere else. try flushing clorox down the kitchen drain. the flies also live in old soda cans, fruit cans, bottles, anywhere there is sugar and water. also in your house plants. crush a couple of cigarettes into the plant pot. the nicotine is a natural bug killer.

Answer 6

Pour pine sol down your drains.
Place vinegar and soap in a bowl and place it where the fruit flies usually are found. The vinegar attracts them and the soap kills them.

Answer 7

You can set out traps, consisting of jar lids (or other shallow dishes) baited with vinegar and a bit of liquid dishwashing detergent.

Answer 8

Try placing fresh basil with it. You will need to replace it daily but it did cut back on our problem tremendously.

Answer 9

fly strips. they are really sticky and flies get trapped on them

Answer 10

Buy a gecko and let it run free in your kitchen. It will eat all he bugs in your house.