How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies in Your Kitchen the Frugal Way
Some homeowners pour vinegar or bleach down their kitchen sink drains. Unfortunately this tactic doesn't get rid of the fruit flies. It might drown a few, bleach a few, or make a few smell like a pickled fruit fly. Otherwise, the fruit flies are still in your home.
There is an easy and very inexpensive way to rid of your home of fruit flies. Simply build a fruit fly trap and trap the fruit flies in the traps. All you need to build a fruit fly trap is a banana or two, a knife, some cling wrap or similar plastic wrap, a few rubber bands, and old plastic jars or bowls that can be thrown away after use. Using an empty mayonnaise jar, plastic butter bowl, or plastic lunch meat container will work. Don't use any container that you want to keep. Be sure the container is deep enough to hold a few slices of banana.
After you have your necessary supplies together, simply slice up the bananas and divide the slices into several containers. Place the cling wrap or other plastic wrapping tightly over the opening of the jar or bowl, and place a rubber band around it to hold it snuggly in place. Using the knife's point, poke a few tiny holes into the plastic wrap. Make them very tiny. The fruit flies can get in, but once in, they can't get out. You now have fruit fly traps that will trap the fruit flies and remove them from your home.
The more fruit flies you have, the more fruit fly trap containers you might wish to make. If the fruit flies have journeyed to other parts of the house, you will want to place a container in each room they are in. Don't remove the plastic covering from the trapping containers! Allow the fruit fly traps to sit for about three days or so, then simply toss the trapping containers into the trash. Remove the trash the same day.
Using fruit fly traps is an easy and inexpensive way to rid the house of fruit flies. No chemicals are needed, the home doesn't smell terrible, and the traps are very environmentally safe.
Published by Cindy Thomas
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18 Comments
Post a CommentMaybe my fruit flies have more specific tastes. They didn't go for the bananna trap like I hoped they would. I have purchased old fashioned (ugly, sticky) fly tape and that has caught more of the little buggers. I may try some other bait in a new set of traps. Still bugging out in Atlanta.
Great article, they have been driving me nuts this year!!
So easy and it worked instantly!!!! They sure do love their bananas!!!
this worked great
Ifound the best way to get rid of fruit flys, is just plain old vacuum.
works great all gone.
I used two containers and found a few fruit flies trapped under the plastic wrap the next morning. What I found to be more effective is the open bottle of red wine that I forgot to cork the night before. There had to be about 30 dead fruit flies floating at the top.
wont th em gone
Ugh! My fruit files totally ignored the trap, they must be cyborg bugs. Lots of others have had this work, I wonder what the deal is at my place? lol!
Gosh, wish I'd read this over the summer! Tucking this one away for future use; thanks a bunch.
What a simple and so effective way to get rid of these awful pestts. I placed 3 containers arounf the kitchen last night and found them pretty full this morning. By mid afternoon they were all gone. Terrific! Thank you.