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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. CHOW Food Editor Aida Mollenkamp demonstrates a quick, easy way to lure fruit flies away from your food.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.