to get nuclear on the fruit flies in my home?

I've had swarms of the little buggers this year too!

Having never had a problem with them before I consulted the oracle that is Google and enticed them into a jar containing apple cider vinegar and a dash of washing up liquid, covered with cling film with little holes in the top. Managed to trap hundreds of them!

They seem to have all disappeared now as suddenly as they arrived.

So satisfying!

Going to try honey and apple cider vinegar in the compost and the food waste bin the council
has introduced. First year of the food wasted bin and never known anything like it

Or cheap red wine in a glass covered in cling film with small holes poked in it. We did that and it totally got rid of them.

I have a bottle of cheap white vinegar on both windowsills in the kitchen, minium fruit flies.
They can't resist the vinegar.

Electric fly racquet- vicious but very effective held over the compost bin / fruit bowl

I’ve just realised I haven’t seen any in months and I think it could be because I decided having one massive bin in the kitchen was unhygienic and pointless as we recycle so much - plus bin juice trauma 🤮- I now have a small contained and take the liner out before I go to bed every day, it’s been a game changer for me but I never thought about the fruit flies. We don’t need massive bins! Maybe consider that too

I have them too, so do my parents. I have no food out, I washed the bin and food waste caddy out on Wednesday, by Wednesday evening they were back. I wash the caddy after every empty, the main bin once a week.

I bought some lovely sunflowers last Friday by Saturday I had to throw them out as the bloody flies were having a party on their stalks.

Fruit Ninja traps. They work a treat. Definitely available on Amazon.

mine seem to have gone strangely
otherwise how about fly paper?

I just put a ramekin of apple cider vinegar by fruit bowl and bananas and they dive in. Change it every day.

rinse off bananas. They often have eggs on them.

There is one singular fruit fly hanging out in my office and I am about to burn the entire building down.

Echo the apple cider vinegar solution.
My dad had an infestation a few years back, but as his eyesight was so poor her couldn't see how out of control they were.
I think i just put some in a jar with a squirt of washing up liquid to thicken/trap.
Highly effective - I was pleasantly surprised!

They are a proper nuisance. I have moved my food waste bin into the porch and pop outside with it if I need to put something in.
I also got some sticky fly traps from amazon, they are yellow cardboard shapes with sticky stuff that you can stick in a plant pot and they attract the flys, they are good for fungus gnats too.

I am witnessing them recently myself. Do you have open bin bags? Any small hole in a bin or bag is enough to keep them staying.

Apple cider vinegar trap

Take all fruit, wash it and keep it in cupboard or fridge until you get rid of the buggers

Tiny bit of wine in bottom of bottle with cling film over top with tiny holes in it, they go in but can't get out...........never seen so many as this year 🤷

The food waste bins from TikTok that you can hang over a cupboard door inside a cupboard (I use my under sink cupboard as its a big double width one and the bin fits on one side) has been a game changer this summer for not having flies and wasps attracted by DC not putting the lid properly, or leaving it overflowing, on the one I used to have on the counter top. Especially as it’s been so hot and no one ever empties it except me!

You can get them from Amazon too but more expensive I think. Best and only ever TikTok purchase, the lid stays open while filling it and I can just shove in waste straight from the sink. It’s also shut in a dark cupboard so hasn’t got as smelly in the heat and I do a lot of juicing so put lots of pulp in it.

I used to have fruit flies in my last house as neighbour had fruit trees and had a lot of dropped fruit in the garden and which also dropped into mine. Could that be an issue?

Vinegar worked to an extent but they still kept coming until it got colder. I haven’t had any in this house thankfully!

we Suddenly have them too! We have a little compost caddy in the kitchen. We regularly change the liner and filter and wash the whole caddy out but the little fruit flies keep coming back as if by magic! Never had a problem with them before apart from in really really hot weather if we haven’t changed the bag every day. Why are they everywhere this year?

We're over run with flies of wvery description at the moment. I changed the kitchen bin on Tuesday last week. On Thursday I went to put something in it and discovered maggots!

We've never had them before and it was hideous - they were in the metal corners and crevices of the bin lid. It took 2 bleach and soak attempts to get them all 💩😭

Might be time for a medication review 😜🤣🤣

Block the drains overnight,
Check every source of standing water (house plants, coffee maker, iron, washing machine, tumble drier)
I’d chuck the fruit, wash the bowl and wait a few days to replace it.

They love wine too