Bloody flies!!?!?!?!

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I've had these tiny flies in the kitchen for about a week. I think they're fruit flies but since putting the fruit in the fridge the buggers are still around.

I've got 3 orchids in the kitchen, could they be the culprits?

I keep killing them but they come back.

Help!

Old fashioned fly papers! Only thing that works for these buggers and you'll break the life cycle quite quickly. I've also heard they come up the drains so a good dose of soda crystals down there and keep the plug in overnight

Thanks Surf
Where would I get fly papers from?!?!

Check your cupboards. I recently had an attack of these damn things and found an elderly wrinkled apple which had escaped and was playing at being a fruit fly magnet.

Eek! Will do.

We've got them in the bloody bathroom too

I got them from Amazon

Arghhhhhh!!!

I've put up the fly catchers (yellow sellotape mobiles) and they've trapped loads but live ones keep appearing and we can't figure out where they are coming from.

Nothing going off in the kitchen and the vast majority are in the bathroom.

Help!!!

Could they be drain flies? (Only heard about them here, but cleaning the drains helped)

Definitely drains. Try thoroughly cleaning them and putting some drain cleaner down and it should fix it

Try little dishes of red wine vinegar and washing up liquid dotted about. One attracts them and the other kills them. Works for us when we get bouts of them.

I found a squishy apple core in the bottom of my study bin that was the culprit. I rarely empty that bin because I rarely use it. One of the kids had put their apple in there a million years ago and it's sat and festered under crumpled paper and empty ink cartridges. Full of fruit fly maggots when I discovered the source of all the tiny flies

Yes, it must be drain flies as I've blocked all the drains for the past few days and we haven't had any!!!

What's the best stuff to,clean drains thoroughly with?

We bleached ours repeatedly (every few days). We also used a solution of water & washing up liquid to spray the little pests with when they gathered on the windows - can't use pesticide sprays for various reasons so sticky drowning was the only option.

Now if I can just figure out where the dead wasps are coming from...

We had a major infestation of drain flies in spring, thanks to a slow leak in an underground water pipe.

Started off with a few that I could vacuum up, then, as more appeared, I used bowls of soapy water to attract and drown them. We caught hundreds of them but they kept coming!

In desperation I rang a pest controller who said that basically, you have to remove the food source and just killing the adults you see won’t do the trick - there will be loads more larvae living and feeding in the drain. It’s the goo/slime that coats your drain that they eat apparently. No amount of bleach or hot water or soda crystals removes the slime and the larvae can withstand anything you throw at them too.

If you physically can, you need to scrub or scrape the affected area and flush away the debris. Pest controllers have chemicals that will do the same job.

Hopefully you only have a small problem! Drain flies are more active in the evening, so you’ll see more of them zig zagging about from about 5pm.

Good news is, they aren’t harmful or hazardous to health at all.

Sorry for the essay - pretty sure I could write a book about these furry feckers now 😁 Good luck!

Thanks all.

Fingers crossed , for the last couple of days there's been very few little buggers flying about.

We've blocked up,the overflows with tissue (very high tech) and always keep,the plugs in.

My fly traps are extremely full drain fly corpses.