Fruit flies... help!

[lastqueenofscotland]

In the last 2/3 days I’ve started to get a lot of fruit flies in my kitchen and bathroom.
I’ll preface this by saying I keep a clean house, food waste goes in an outside compost bin, I take the bins out every 2/3 days, I clean the kitchen every day so there’s never crumbs lying about/food splashed on the hob, washing up is NEVER left for more than half an hour at most, don’t have a fruit bowl, keep everything in the fridge except for things like tins, herbs, pasta etc... so what the fuck am I doing wrong and how do I get rid of the minging twats

Check your plug hole?

We've got them too, although we have a fruit bowl out on the side.
A little bowl of diluted vinegar on the window ledge attracts and drowns some of them.

I clean that every time I wash up and have chucked a tonne of bleach down there

I bet there’s a rotten piece of fruit somewhere, any kids?

Shower?

No kids. Honestly it’s just me in a little two up two down the place is fucking spotless

I could've written this myself word for word. There's so many of them in my house and I keep it spotless, been taking the bins out every night, not leaving dishes in the sink. I did catch some with Apple cider vinegar but there's still loads.
my stupid DH keeps bringing fruit and leaving it on the kitchen which obviously attracts them but it's all been in the fridge for days.

Step one: buy red wine
Step two: drink 7/8 of the bottle
Step three: leave almost empty bottle in area with flies. They will fly in and become trapped and have a merry drunken drowning.
Step four: repeat step 1/2/3 for each room as needed. Maybe not in the same night though

Doormat have you had them this year but never before?? They are doing my head in.

Odd. We get them but always old fruit is culprit. Soon as that goes they go.

I've got them too - no idea why, they are really getting on my nerves and the seem immune to fly spray. I've taken to letting them settle and smacking them with a newspaper.
I'm going to try the vinegar thing tonight.

They're a major problem for us every year and nothing we do seems to help. We have an indoor food waste bin but have to take it to the outdoor food bin daily because of them. We've tried various ways of trying to catch them and honestly the best thing that worked was accidentally leaving half a glass of wine out on the counter (vinegar didn't work for us but wine definitely did) so we often have a little in a glass hiding away in our kitchen now. Cheap plonk works ok for it so I don't mind that being wasted as I wouldn't drink it.

Right I am going for vinegar in one dish and ginger wine in another (that's the only wine I've got at the moment) I'll report back tomorrow if I've had any success.

On the recommendation of a thread earlier in the summer, when it was really quite warm, I bought a couple of pitcher plants to eat the house flies. Unfortunately I still can't open my back door without a couple of bluebottles feeling the need to come in, however the fruit flies and stupid small flies that used circle in the dining room have been not in evidence. I think the plant is too small yet to guzzle blue bottles, I still have to keep squatting and spraying, but I think it is eating the fruit flies.

My stepmom recommended a little saucer with white wine vinegar (& poss some water) on the windowsill or somewhere.

You can also use apple juice with a bit of washing up liquid added. Put it in a shallow dish.

We had this and it was coming from our kitchen and downstairs bathroom sink, use sink drain gel, the £ shop variety worked well for us, I put quite a lot down and left it for hours then would do it again the following day and problem solved. I do this every so often now as a prevention.

I did the red wine, vinegar thing too but getting them at source by cleaning kitchen drains was the key to getting rid completely.

I put some red wine in a wine glass, cover with cling and punch a few holes. They fly in and cant get back out. The buggers reproduce every 20 mins or so which is why one creates a squadron so quickly. We get them in the bin as well. SO ANNOYING

Argh, I have the same issue this summer in the kitchen. Never ever had them before. I binned most of my fruit and veg the other week from the fridge to try and deter them, bleached out the fridge, bleached out the kitchen bin and the sink. Also like you never leave washing up, empty the bin often, everything is kept in the fridge etc but they’re always around the fecking bin. Disgusting things .