Fruit flies?

[Purplelemon7]

Anyone have them at the moment?!? So annoying. Even the vinegar and fairly liquid trick isn’t working :(

Yes. Driving me crackers!

Im sorry but this just reminds me of my favourite quote 'Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana'.

Anyway
Yes I've got loads of them. Meh. I ignore ignore.

I had them for a few weeks after a kitchen food compost bin got a bit ripe.
I used these from Amazon - bit grim, but I'd rather have a few days of the buggers caught on sticky fly strips than flying around and breeding.
fly strips

It got rif of them - unfortunately the dangling strip was too much of a temptation for my cat, although I'd placed it really high, thinking it was out of her reach. She took a flying leap, it fell on her, and I had a scared cat zooming around the flat until I managed to catch her and pull it off of her fur.
It did get rid of the fruit flies though probably took 5-7 days, but they're gone.

I got rid if them last year by putting a bit of banana in an empty jar, waiting for them to swarm it and then putting the lid on the jar and releasing them outside. Had to do this multiple times but it did work.

We had something like this a while ago, think it started with a pot plant I bought for the kitchen. They were called Fungus Gnats (yuk) and live in drains, plant roots etc. Chucked the plant, bleached the plugholes, took a while but got rid. Have another plant now but only water from the base, as apparently they like damp soil too.

Yes! Motherfuckers.

I’ve created a fly cemetery though, mwahaha.

500ml liquid bottle cut about 2/3 of the way up. 1/2 a cup of water, 1/2 a cup of vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon washing up liquid. Mix.
Place top 1/3 upside down on top.

I have them too but on my succulent plant and my indoor ivy. Watered them yesterday and a whole swarm flew up from the pots.

I got a lovely set of oil and balsamic vinegar decanters from IKEA. Merrily using them for my salad dressings until I noticed the vinegar bottle with spout was a perfect fruit fly trap 🤮
I've just left cheap vinegar in them ever since and they're controlling the swarm.

Can I Can I Can I?

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like a banana.

I thank you.

I have houseplants and lottle flying bastards

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08P364PGJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_8Z5DKPKMEAKNFZZFQKS6?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Try this.

Yes! No matter what I do, they appear out of the bin, even if it's only dry stuff in there and has been cleaned with new bag! They're in abundance

From past experience the little fuckers love the sugary water in vases of plants - I was tearing my hair out as to what on earth they could be feeding on.

See also weevils - if they’re coming back and you’ve cleaned out all kitchen cupboards etc. check if you have a child’s pasta collage behind a wardrobe…I felt like a genius when I figured that out for a colleague!

One just landed on my screen..... FFS.

If you're reading this you CF fruit fly - FUCK OFF!!!!!

Yes, they are little buggers! We had them for about 2 weeks, I can't stand them. We couldn't work out where they were coming from, we keep all our fruit and veg in the fridge, so we emptied all our cupboards, cleaned the kitchen, top to bottom, but they still kept appearing. Next, we poured bleach down the sinks, took any bin bags out straight away, even checked the plants but they didn't appear to be coming from the soil etc.

We eventually managed to get rid of them by doing a couple of fruit traps with strawberries. Caught and trapped so many of them. It was grim but after a few days it did the trick.

Spray them with fly spray. Job done. We had them earlier this summer but not had the autumn onslaught yet…

@JayAlfredPrufrock

Can I Can I Can I?

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like a banana.

I thank you.

That's very pleasing

Yep loads on the sunflowers in a vase in my kitchen I noticed today. They seem later this year, I am sure I had lots early summer last year.

Get a cape sundew. Impossible to kill and mine hoovers up fruit flies. It’s like living fly paper.

We have loads! My parents do too! Bloody pain!

@Elieza

I’ve got them in compost that I reported a plant into. There’s now a swarm. Something must have laid eggs in the compost and now they’ve hatched. Great. Black flies galore.

Those are fungus gnats, not fruit flies.

I thought ours were because of the bloody binman strike that went on for almost 2 months (bloody strike, not bloody binmen- they already do a nasty job and should be paid fairly!) but looks like maybe not then.

My fly cemetery.

Yes they're fucking everywhere

I took Raid to my outside bins today and quickly closed the lids in case it was something to do with that. And they're in the kitchen despite a deep bleach clean today

They especially like to congregate around my glass of wine

@PumpkinsGalore

One just landed on my screen..... FFS.

If you're reading this you CF fruit fly - FUCK OFF!!!!!