Plagued by fruit flies. Help!

[YellowEllis]

They are just taking over my kitchen. We have one bin in the kitchen besides recycling which everything goes into including food waste.

I've armed myself with bleach and today I'm emptying every inch of the cupboards, drawers, fridge and cleaning incase there's anything attracting them. I can't find a source so far but will do another thorough search today.

I have ordered some apple cider vinegar to try and trap the fuckers.

Anyone had this? Please help! I've never had them in my life. My 1yo DS eats his body weight in fruit and they do seem to like his highchair which is a fucker to clean so maybe it's the small specks on that. God knows.

Is it ok just to move my kitchen bin into the garden? Is that just asking for worse problems like rats or whatever? Help me

White wine vinegar with a spot of washing up liquid in a wine glass usually does the trick. Leave next to the fruit bowl and wipe down surfaces the best you can.

They’re a bloody nightmare op. Bin any fruit that looks remotely on the turn or damaged. Put the rest in the fridge. Get a bottle of red wine with a few dregs in the bottle and leave out. They love it and then get drown in the bottle.
Squirt worktops, sinks and high chair numerous times through the day with dilute fairy solution/ multi purpose spray so there’s nothing left for them to eat. Put some fly papers up. Good luck!

I hate them too! Noticed that they seem very attracted to pineapple, even though it's fine and not on the turn or anything. Very annoying. Good luck!

I live in Spain an get them every year.

ALL fruit/veggies/potatoes to be kept in fridge or dark secure place (potatoes)

High chair has to be wiped down if traces of fruit or juice on it. Several times a day.

It's not really about cleaning per say (apart from contaminated areas which have had fruit/veg on them) it's about ridding the area of fruit.

In two months they'll be gone.

Keep windows shut.

I really wouldn't leave red wine dregs lying around. It will attract them, more of them!

We had this last year. I stopped using a fruit bowl altogether and kept everything in the fridge. Also poured a shit load of bleach and boiling water down my sink, about five kettles worth so I steamed the fuckers, because I read on here that they can live and breed on the rims underneath the plughole, just down the drain where water doesn't always reach iyswim, and I stuck a kettleful down every night for a week. Haven't had them since

YY to boiling water down the sink.