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How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies
Fruit flies are nasty little pests, and an infestation—large or small—is an unwelcome sight in the kitchen. Former CHOW Food Editor Aida Mollenkamp demonstrates a quick, easy way to lure fruit flies away from your food.
Yeah that work! I did put wine, water and little bit dish soap into bowl. The fruit files is already dead. Do not leave dirty dish until you finish the dishwasher. You must done to put the dishes away. It is taken over night then, When you woke up in the morning that work good greatest. Then you have to throw away. Do it again and again there is no more fruit files. You have to watch the fruit...+READ
Yeah that work! I did put wine, water and little bit dish soap into bowl. The fruit files is already dead. Do not leave dirty dish until you finish the dishwasher. You must done to put the dishes away. It is taken over night then, When you woke up in the morning that work good greatest. Then you have to throw away. Do it again and again there is no more fruit files. You have to watch the fruit files will come back again. Do it again same things. Thank you.-COLLAPSE
We had dozens of fruit flies in our kitchen and had tried everything to get rid of them. I finally read the comments on this site and followed Panini Guys instructions. Within an hour I had 14 fruit flies in the glass and within three days they were all gone!! We had tried similar tactics with orange juice and wine, but nothing worked as well as the dish detergent and apple cider vinegar. Thanks...+READ
We had dozens of fruit flies in our kitchen and had tried everything to get rid of them. I finally read the comments on this site and followed Panini Guys instructions. Within an hour I had 14 fruit flies in the glass and within three days they were all gone!! We had tried similar tactics with orange juice and wine, but nothing worked as well as the dish detergent and apple cider vinegar. Thanks Panini Guy!!!!-COLLAPSE
i tried the vinager and didn't help to much so not sure why but i tried lemon juice with some sugar and water and within 20 min the bowl had dozens drowning in it ..... worked great for me
Some years ago a kind friend brought some just picked strawberries to my house. They were infested with fruit flies and soon I had hundreds in my house. I was crazed and my dog ran whenever I touched a magazine because I was stalking the critters around the house. (Just call me Elmer Fudd.) I was possessed! Yuck.
Here is a twist on the above solution. Usually I use cider vinegar with a bit of...+READ
Some years ago a kind friend brought some just picked strawberries to my house. They were infested with fruit flies and soon I had hundreds in my house. I was crazed and my dog ran whenever I touched a magazine because I was stalking the critters around the house. (Just call me Elmer Fudd.) I was possessed! Yuck.
Here is a twist on the above solution. Usually I use cider vinegar with a bit of dish soap in it. Then I cover the whole dish with plastic wrap but keep one corner open. The beasties get trapped and you can quickly close them in to make sure they croak. Refresh every day or two to eliminate any odor from dead flies. It worked for me.-COLLAPSE
Yeah, I tried all the natural solutions. Get a proper fruit fly trap from the hardware store; it costs a couple dollars and was the only thing that got rid of mine.
I just moved to AR, from CA. I have never seen so many flies in one place my whole life. I have been killing flies left and right. Im glad to see that someone knows what to do. I cant spray because I have a baby. Theyll only come back anyway. I thank you for this video. Its a great help.
I buy the ant traps.. little plastic bait traps. Be careful if you have curious cat or dogs.. so hide behind or under something.
The other thing I do usually spring and fall is sprinkle epsom salt along the walls keeps crawly things out. works on spiders and ants.
Now if y'all could just tell me a tip for getting rid of ants.
Not a big pile of them, but I am consistently seeing one - five of them crawling on an inside wall (which makes no sense at all).
Now if y'all could just tell me a tip for getting rid of ants.
Not a big pile of them, but I am consistently seeing one - five of them crawling on an inside wall (which makes no sense at all).
covering the bowl with plastic wrap is A MUST. Otherwise the flies just sit around the edge of the liquid. You can also pour some beer in a glass and cover with saran wrap, no soap needed. Beer and wine work consistently well, the cider vinegar is just so so.
I put some sushi vinegar and a little balsamic in a small jar, covered it with foil, and poked three little holes in it with toothpicks- works very well, but you have to treat anyhouseplants with bti*(bacillus thuringesis israelensis) in the water when you water said plants- it's a larvacide and is otherwise very, very environmentally friendly unless you're a larva. The vinegar flies that live in...+READ
I put some sushi vinegar and a little balsamic in a small jar, covered it with foil, and poked three little holes in it with toothpicks- works very well, but you have to treat anyhouseplants with bti*(bacillus thuringesis israelensis) in the water when you water said plants- it's a larvacide and is otherwise very, very environmentally friendly unless you're a larva. The vinegar flies that live in the soil of your houseplants will just keep on breeding and no matter how many you catch you'll always have more if you don't treat the source of the infestation.-COLLAPSE
I used an empty wine bottle, with maybe an inch or two of fruit juice in the bottom, and the dish soap on top. Then I taped a small funnel to the top. I would run some juice through the funnel two or three times a day. This attracted the flies and as they went in the funnel, apparently their tiny brains would not let them out. Cleared out my infestation in less than two days.
Method thats working currently for us: a bowl covered in plastic wrap with banana peels chopped up inside, dash of cider vineagar, 3 pin pokes in plastic wrap- they get in and can't get out, I didn't think we had many of these buggers until I saw literally 5 dozen stuck inside!
our office is currently infested (result of no one regularily emptying the compost bucket all the enviros insisted we get) so I'm happy for this info even if it is October - the little buggers are everywhere! Many thanks.
Cool clip! OR poor apple cider vinegar in a low dish cover with saran wrap and secure with a rubber band then poke holes in the plastic wrap with a toothpick - they go in but can not get out.
Given the heat of Toronto summers and the resultant fruit fly infestations that everyone here seems to get, this would have been particularly useful... had it been posted in May. A bit late for this year, unfortunately.