Fruit flies

coshoo · Dec 13, 2019

Help- I'm batching, and guess I waited a little too long to take out the compost, and now have fruit flies or gnats or whatever flying around the kitchen. Any good ideas for getting rid of them? Will those sticky strips you hang in the barn do it? I don't want to be spraying Malathion around in the kitchen, of course- although it may be less toxic than some of the stuff I've been cooking up. . .

Mike(NEOhio) · Dec 13, 2019

Put a small dish out with a little apple cider vinegar.

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2019

Watch the video. This works dang good. The next day you wore need to make another trap it will be so full. Just go buy some apple cider vinegar.
Trap

SweetFeet · Dec 13, 2019

Coshoo,

Mega dittos on using a jar with half a cup od apple cider vinegar, a bit of water, add just 2 droplets of dishsoap, and a touch of sugar....

Stir it all up, and let it set near where the fruit flies are congregating.

It takes them a day or two to find it... but you will end up getting them all.
May need clean the jar and set out some fresh "magic juice"... the little buggers get smelly as they deteriorate.

bmack95hd · Dec 13, 2019

I would call that an investigation. Haha!

bmack95hd · Dec 13, 2019

Infestation! Gonna try it.

smileykeith · Dec 13, 2019

a little red wine and a drop of dawn dish soap works great

retired farmer · Dec 13, 2019

I have found that a spray bottle of Windex with Ammonia is certain death on house flies and gnats when they land on something.

caterpillar guy · Dec 14, 2019

Take the garbage out and they will be gone shortly this time of year. Then don't let it set again for awhile. Papers will not matter it is the garden peels and such that need to go.

C.Amick · Dec 14, 2019

Fly strips work great.

coshoo · Dec 15, 2019

Thanks to all for your suggestions. Some cider vinegar and a drop of dish soap in a cup, plastic wrap over the top, poke a few holes, and now all the fruit flies are at the bottom of the cup.

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

Fruit Flies: Getting off Braniff Airways first (orange) 747, non stop from Dallas to Honolulu, around 1969, you are greeted with a Floral Lei. (Real nice Aloha gesture to their new guests) Two seconds later you can't see because the air is full of Fruit Flies buzzing around your head!

mj · Dec 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 17:25:39 12/13/19) Infestation! Gonna try it.

Rinse out your pop and beer cans.

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