How do you get rid of fruit flies?

Question

We had a moldy piece of fruit in the garbage and a bunch of fruit flies came. Now they won't go away, someone told us to spray windex on them, but they are still everywhere. Any advice on how to get rid of them?

Answer 1

I make a simple trap, and it works.
Pour some vinegar into a bottle--say a couple Tbs or so of any kind of vinegar, any bottle.
Cover the opening with tin foil, pushing the foil down into the neck of the bottle a bit to make a concave surface, or a crater. I make the foil dip down maybe a 1/2 inch deep or so.
Use a toothpick to poke a hole through the foil, in the bottom of the crater. You can wiggle the toothpick around a little, make the hole is big enough for easy fruit-fly passage.
The fruit flies are drawn to the vinegar, but once they go in, they don't figure out how to get out. You can swirl the vinegar around in the bottle once you've got some bugs flying around in there--this makes them fall down into the liquid and drown--just to be sure they don't get back out. It's kind of gross but it does the trick.

Answer 2

I found this trick online this summer, and amazingly- it works.
In a small container, glass, jar etc... pour about 1/2 " apple cider; then add 2 drops dish washing liquid. Set it in a safe place somewhere around your problem area- and you will be quite surprised. I used it, and found many of the dead little buggers- more of them than I even thought I had, LOL. I would dump this out every other day, wash the glass, then do it all over again. Within a week- no more fruit flies. The amazing things you can find online..... Don't know WHY it works, but I will not question success. Good Luck!

Answer 3

MAKE A FLY FUNNEL TRAP
Get a clear jar or plastic container. Put a banana peel in the bottom. Make a funnel with a piece of paper and tape it into place on the mouth of the container. The paper funnel should point down into the jar. Leave a hole just big enough to allow them to pass into the container. Leave it sitting in an upright position near the fly infestation. The flies go in but aren't able to find their way out easily. You will catch alot of flies this way, and eventually when there are sooo many flies in the container that they start to randomly find their way out, throw the container away and if necessary, make a new one.

Answer 4

I've had a fruit fly problem before from old bananas. I just threw out the garbage and sprayed air deodorizer around the area to make it smell better, cleaned it up with some bleach(the garbage also leaked) and after about a day they were gone.

Answer 5

Try Lavender Oil mixed with water in a spray bottle. Or just a normal Pesticide spray/

Answer 6

pour some apple cider into a jar and throw an eaten apple in with it and let it sit open in the kitchen in the corner; all of the flies will go in it, then after like 2 days cover it, and they will all die.

Answer 7

Put a jar of sugar water near the source. They will go for that and drown.

Answer 8

Eat all the fruit.

Take out the garbage.

Answer 9

i just usually put the fruit in a plastic bag then tie it extremely tight. or you can use a ziplock. THEN put it in your garbage.

Answer 10

try a fly stick. Those work well, then as soon as all the flies are gone, just toss it! =)