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to get nuclear on the fruit flies in my home?

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jodolun · 28/08/2025 22:34

There are fruit flies brazenly fucking in my kitchen right now, on the net over my fruit bowl. I have been so proactive this year in preventing them and we've hardly had any until yesterday afternoon and now they are bloody everywhere. I've put mr muscle pipe unblocker down all the plug holes. cleaned and checked anywhere they could be coming from. I have my vinegar traps out and a handheld hoover but still they come to fornicate over my fruit bowl, bastards!

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Firefly100 · 29/08/2025 07:40

Electric fly racquet- vicious but very effective held over the compost bin / fruit bowl

EmeraldShamrock000 · 29/08/2025 07:52

I have a bottle of cheap white vinegar on both windowsills in the kitchen, minium fruit flies.
They can't resist the vinegar.

Echobelly · 29/08/2025 07:56

EmeraldShamrock000 · 28/08/2025 22:36

Get a bottle of cheap white vinegar, stick a fork in the spout to make a bigger hole, they'll fly in, can't get out.
I have a few, most are floating in white vinegar.

Or cheap red wine in a glass covered in cling film with small holes poked in it. We did that and it totally got rid of them.

CrushingOnRubies · 29/08/2025 17:46

Going to try honey and apple cider vinegar in the compost and the food waste bin the council
has introduced. First year of the food wasted bin and never known anything like it

Chemenger · 29/08/2025 17:47

Firefly100 · 29/08/2025 07:40

Electric fly racquet- vicious but very effective held over the compost bin / fruit bowl

So satisfying!

NeverCouldGetTheHangOfThursdays · 29/08/2025 18:15

I've had swarms of the little buggers this year too!

Having never had a problem with them before I consulted the oracle that is Google and enticed them into a jar containing apple cider vinegar and a dash of washing up liquid, covered with cling film with little holes in the top. Managed to trap hundreds of them!

They seem to have all disappeared now as suddenly as they arrived.

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