I’m loving the gorgeous, delicious fruit that’s so plentiful right now. It’s healthy. It’s inexpensive. And it’s tasty!
Unfortunately, the fruit doesn’t just taste good to me. It tastes delicious to fruit flies!
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If you have those pesky fruit flies hanging our your kitchen like I do, try one or all of these tips to get rid of them.
How to get rid of fruit flies
1. Clean. Clean. Then clean some more.
Okay, this probably isn’t what you wanted to hear first. But, you really do need to clean your kitchen thoroughly. If you have rotten fruit, crumbs, leftovers from the night before hanging around, you’ll just attract more bugs. So do your best to clean food debris and wipe up any liquid that may have spilled on your counters.
2. Create a dish soap bubble bath.
If you have liquid dish soap in your kitchen, squeeze a bit into a bowl and fill with water until the bubbles are almost overflowing. Place the bowl where the fruit flies have been congregating and wait for them to dive into the bubble bath. The bubbles will weigh down their wings so they’ll be stuck in the bath and out of your hair!
3. Make a sweet trap.
Create a trap by using a glass jar and funnel. Place a small piece of fruit that’s attracting the flies into the jar and add a mixture of honey or sugar and vinegar. Then place the funnel (you can make your own funnel by using a paper towel or toilet paper roll) in the jar.
The fruit and sugar mixture will attract the fruit flies but the funnel should trap them in the jar.
Fruit flies buzzing around the kitchen sure do take the enjoyment out of eating fresh fruit so I hope you don’t have them anytime soon. If you do, though, these three tips should help quite well. Unfortunately, I have recent first hand experience!
Do you have any other tips for getting rid of fruit flies?
iDreamOfClean
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What I’ve always done is set out a small dish of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dish soap in it. The vinegar attracts them, and the soap reduces the surface tension of the water, so when they land to drink, they end up sinking and drowning.
That’s what we do, too – works great!
I use a jar with a lid, such as a canning jar, and poke small holes in it (with a small knife), Then I put orange juice in it. The flies are trapped in there. It works great. I also vacuum them with the hose….don’t laugh, it works too.
Oh, the vacuum is brilliant! I’m making a list of 1001 ways to use a vacuum and am adding that one to the list!!!
I use the apple cider vinegar and dish soap solution, too. Sometimes when we get mosquitoes in the house as well as fruit flies, I leave it in a bowl under the stove light all night. The light reflects off the liquid’s surface and the flying pests aim for it, but they never get out. Mwahahaha.
This was given to me a few years ago by a co-worker. Put cork from a bottle of wine in the bottom of my banana bowl. Never had problem with fruitflies again.
Well that’s super easy! Thanks for sharing.