How do you get rid of fruit flys?

[Swede]

Tiny little buggers have infested my pad.

[HEyHEY]

1. First figure out where they are coming from

then.... buy a frog

[Swede]

6. Thanx Heyhey

Where do I get a frog at 8pm on a Sunday night?

[Padraig18]

2. Get rid of their food source.

Get rid of any open fruit, garbage, etc. You might also want to wash the inside of your garbage cans with hot, soapy water and bleach.

[Vitruvius]

7. And they lay their eggs on their food source -- so if you get rid of

it every day without fail, you'll get rid of the eggs before they hatch. Then when the current crop of fruitflies dies off, the problem is solved.

By-the-way, most people get fruitflies in one of two ways. One is the eggs come in on fruit that they buy. The other is: drosophila fruitflies are used in high school biology to teach kids genetics. Remember growing them in jars, with the culture media (food) at the bottom? Remember when your kid brother knocked over a jar and the flies escaped?... You and your next-door neighbors suddenly had fruit flies.

[madrchsod]

3. call tom delay

tell you got fruit flys

[Swede]

4. Ugh,I'd rather have the little buggers than the big bugger.

[bleedingheart]

5. oo ooo ooo ...I had em and this is how I got rid of the bastards

I got old fashioned fly tape and suspended it above a dish of white vinegar...the dumb bastards flocked to the vinegar and then they got stuck on the fly paper when they tried to take a rest..!!!

bwahahahahahahah!!!

There are other methods which will kill them but they are far more toxic... old fashioned methods sometimes work best!

[AnnabelLee]

8. My grandmother used to

take a large empty jar, put a piece of banana in it, then make a cone out of a piece of paper & put it in the jar with the small end of the cone near the bottom. The fruitflies go through the small end of the paper cone to get to the fruit, & can't figure out how to get out of the jar.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

9. I kill a fruit fly every day in my room.

And then the next day, there's ALWAYS another one pouncing about on my desk when I'm trying to study. Weird.

[Karenina]

10. I chase them

with the vacuum cleaner.

[ironflange]

14. Me too!

My pantry was FULL of the little bastards, living in an old bag of raisins. I got the bright idea of sucking them into the vacuum, and it did a great job. Had to do it every day for about a week, but it was real fun hunting them down.

[DS1]

11. Clean.

simple as that.

[mlawson]

12. Considering you live in Canada,

if you can chase them out the door, they should freeze quickly. Right?

[Swede]

22. Have you ever tried chasing these little fuckers?

There everywhere!

[BiggJawn]

13. Throw out the bananas.They'll be gone in a day.

Their life cycle runs around 24 hours, so if you get rid of the food source, they'll be gone in about a day.
Bananas is what brings them around my place.

[Swede]

20. Damn,I did have bananas going ripe on the cupboard.

[BlueJazz]

15. This does work...absolutly..

buy a bottle of a cheap sweet wine.
Open it, drink or pour half of it out.
set it on a shelf or table. That's it. They are attracted to the wine, go in bottle, take a nip and the party's over.

I'm serious.

[whatelseisnew]

16. rinse your wine/beer bottles out after you drink

as others have said - rid yourself of the source

in the meantime, smash the buggers

[Swede]

21. Gulp,I got dozens of empties in the storeroom.

Do they like beer? I thought they were fruit flys.

[procopia]

17. This is easy and it works!

Pour vinegar (and I added a little sugar) in a jar and stretch Saran Wrap over the top. With a toothpick, punch holes in the Saran Wrap. The flies will go in and eventually drown, because they can't get back out.

[pansypoo53219]

18. get rid of fruit

wash new fruit.

[izzie]

19. Put up sign saying 'Don't ask, Don't tell' Friuts will leave.

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