To ask how the f*ck do I deal with fruit flies?

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D*ckhead husband left some bananas out a few weeks ago while I was away for a few days and ever since we have been inundated with fruit flies.

Every inch of my kitchen has been cleaned, wiped, bleached to no avail. The little bin swarmy bastards keep coming back!!

What do I do? How do I get rid? Where have they had their swarmy bastard babies so I can go and kill them all too?!

One just flew in to my wine and I'm about to burn the house down 😬😭

Bowl of cut fruit with cling film over the top, put some holes in it so they can crawl in but not out.

Or a bowl of vinegar, cling film over again, if you want them to drown quickly.

Bowl with water, a little cider vinegar and small amount of washing up liquid. They can float on water but washing up liquid breaks the surface tension and they go through.

We bought a pitcher plant for this very reason a few weeks ago. It's morbidly satisfying to see how many of the little feckers it's eaten so far.

Flypaper

Is that what are all over my house since I came home from holiday?! I can’t work out where they have come from though😖😖

Drosera Binata
hanging sundew plant
will catch them for you all year
and is pretty

You've missed something. They'd be gone if there wasn't still something there.

I got rid of ours using the bowl/fruit/vinegar/cling film trick. I put a peach stone with some flesh left on in a bowl with about a cm of white wine vinegar, cling film over the top, few holes poked in with the tip of a knife. Worked a treat.

I Hoover the little lighters up.

Blighters not lighters

do these tips work with blue bottles. im having a nightmare with them

Washing up liquid in the bottom of a glass with apple cider vinegar on top does a fantastic job for me. I've caught at least 20 of them today!

remove all food sources (including potatos and onions) and they will go away on their own.
they don't like fresh herbs so bringing in a few sprigs will help,

The best way I've found is to leave a red wine bottle with some red wine in it (obviously not too much - what a waste of wine) near to where the flies are. They fly into the bottle and can't get out again. Perhaps best to put a massive label on the bottle warning not to drink the flywine too...

Because they breed so fast, and for various other reason detailed in the wiki link, they are one of the most studied organisms in science and have contributed hugely to our knowledge of genetics.

Their scientific name, Drosophila, means sun-lover.

Just trying to make you feel a bit happier about them!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster

Red wine. The buggers love the stuff! In a jam jar. They drown! I used to keep it on the windowsill, and when I get about 50 round the rim, flyspray the bastards!

Washing up liquid is an insecticide. I rub some around the edges of our kitchen compost container where they like to sit. You can mix with water and spray them and/or mix with water and vinegar to make a trap.

Bluebottles will be attracted to something rotten ihatethecold (mouse under the floorboards, bird in the chimney etc) unless they fly in and can't find their way out (they like to fly from window to window across our living room/dining room as they've come in and got trapped). Is it a sudden massive swarm of them or just always a few?

We had a swarm of bluebottles one day when I put some chicken on the hob. Came back in 10mins when timer went off to find the whole kitchen alive with them. Killed what we could and shooed the rest and it has never happened again. Washing up liquid will work on them too (but be careful of slippery floors).

Loving this thread.

What about a plague of DaddyLongLeg? I have thousands and they keep having babies.

We had this once due to fruit being left out too long.

The way we dealt with it was several pots of apple cider vinegar with some washing up liquid in. We dotted them around the house and every day or two, should dispose of the liquid and the hundreds of fucking fruit fly corpses and put our fresh liquid. We had to do this for about two weeks but gradually the amount of dead flies in the liquid reduces which is a good indicator you are winning the battle!!

Eliminate the source. You WILL have missed something.
I had the same issue, called pest control, the chap said there WILL be something they’re attracted to. I swore there wasn’t, but on the millionth search I found an old bag of festering potatoes at the back of my cupboard.

Pour a little apple cider vinegar in the bottom of a glass. Then make a paper funnel so it has a tiny hole on the bottom and a wide hole at the top. Check it fits in the glass and sits above the vinegar then tape the paper so it holds that shape.

Fruit flies are really attracted to apple cider vinegar (other vinegars might work too). They get in, but can’t easily find their way out. Take the glass outside and let the flies out when it starts to fill up. Then replace the funnel and set it back inside to catch more. When I’ve done this in the past, they were gone in a day or two.

Check your sink traps as well as use some of these excellent home remedies. We get fruit flies at work (call them bar flies as I work in a pub) and they breed in sink traps.

Job is tip works wonders change it every morning will take good week to get rid fully. We use 3 ramekins around kitchen n utility room.

Compost box even though lidded was an issue last yr so slung outside and thus yr just heat and odd skin/peel/core in bin has attracted the little blighters

Sorry that was oobis tip stupid auto correct

Yep, you need to trap them with the funnel thing described above. Also, make sure your bins have been completely cleaned and bleached and left outside to dry, plus behind your bins etc.