Fruit Flies

[JLcribber]

They sure are pesky but harmless. Once a batch of them hatches there could be hundreds at once.

I leave a tupperware bowl on the counter over night with a couple pieces of fruit in it with the lid right beside ready to capture them all in the morning. Then I take it outside before I open it again.

Fruit flies

• Clean up any ripe fruit droppings and take out the trash (or if you are a green superstar, your compost!) nightly for a few days -- fruit flies lay their eggs in overripe fruit.
• Apple cider vinegar is a great natural way to get rid of fruit flies. Pour some into a glass, and place a paper funnel over the container. Fruit flies love the smell and will fly into the glass, but will not find their way back out the funnel (for 4 of 5 fruit flies...).
• Leave a glass of cheap wine (apparently, fruit flies particularly like chardonnay) out. Mix a bit of detergent in it. The flies will sip on it and die shortly thereafter.
• Make your own fly paper by boiling water, sugar, and corn syrup together. Spread the mixture on brown paper grocery bags and wait for the flies to stick.
• Suck up flies through the back of an old hair dryer. The flies will go in the hot back end of the dryer and fry.
• Basil deters fruit flies. Mix some basil oil with water and spray your kitchen.

Cheap and nontoxic ways to get rid of bugs | Yahoo! Green

 

[Robin]

I only stick to the pest control products (other than all natural ways as suggested) that my avian vet would recommend:
Pest Control

I just bought this product from you and I set it up this morning, and with in the hour I had 2 fruit flies dead in it. So for everyone curious it does work and it also looks nice sitting on the counter.

 

[rockoko]

I just bought this product from you and I set it up this morning, and with in the hour I had 2 fruit flies dead in it. So for everyone curious it does work and it also looks nice sitting on the counter.

That one does look nice!! Thanks for letting us know it works!

 

[birdmom1]

I use an empty wine bottle with some apple cider vinegar in the bottom. Just an inch will do. Then put a drop of dishwashing liquid and leave it where you see the little buggers. They go in for the vinegar the dishwashing liquid makes it impossible for them to stand on the surface of the liquid and they drown. No mas!

Carol (*)>

 

[Saemma]

Here a few useful tips.

Winged Wisdom Pet Bird Magazine - Kitchen Physician X - Safe Cleaning and Pest Control

 

[waterfaller1]

This is funny..I just bought a fruit fly culture!! For Mr. Jeepers and Jada to feast on

 

[Tamara]

I just bought this product from you and I set it up this morning, and with in the hour I had 2 fruit flies dead in it. So for everyone curious it does work and it also looks nice sitting on the counter.

Awesome!!!!! I'm so glad!!!