I am filing this under random for a few reasons.
1. Do you really care how to get rid of fruit flies?
2. It doesn’t involve a can of hair spray and a lighter.
3. It’s waaaay to simple.
and the last reason…
4. It doesn’t involve a can of hair spray and a lighter.
I hate fruit flies almost as much as I hate fire ants. I REAALLLLLY hate fire ants!
Every now and then, usually when I buy fruit from HEB or Sam’s I end up with fruit flies. After a few days of the vacuum and fly swatter, I turn it over to my husband. Why I wait I don’t know, he gets them all within about 5 hours. It involves a cup of apple cider vinegar and a narrow opening. The flies are attracted to the cider when they get in they can’t get out. Most of the time he uses a baby bottle with a funnel in the top, and about 1/2 inch of vinegar in the bottom. They fly in and never come out. This time the slit in the saran wrap worked pretty well, although I would have made the hole a little smaller… and used hair spray with a lighter!
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We just had an outbreak of fruit flies at our house and I tried vinegar with dishsoap in a mason jar. Worked great! I think the flies come home on bananas-yuck!
I make a nice sourdough start, leave it on the counter covered securely in plastic wrap, look forward to it fermenting, and, just when I can smell it turning nice and sour, I inspect it.That's when I find I've caught fruit flies. And then I use colorful adjectives.
I keep a little saucer by the sink, filled with water, a tablespoon or so of balsamic vinegar, and a dot of dish soap. Fruit flies are super attracted to it, but when they try to land on the liquid, the soap has destroyed the surface tension and they drown. Even bad cases of fruit flies are gone within a day or two.
I've got my trap out now. Apple cider vinegar with a little dish soap. Works wonderfully!
This has been an unbelievable year for fruit flies here too. Like Egyptianic Portions (plagues, from Moses bad). It was horrible trying to can pears with 5 dive bombing my eyelashes. I literally went C R A Z Y. Please don't verify with my daughter…