Fruit flies

[DrivingMeCrazyy]

Is there a quicker way to get rid of fruit flies? I find the Apple cider traps take forever

They are driving me insane I've scrubbed my kitchen today and put fruit in the fridge i also empty food waste straight out ! I am using ordinary white vinegar and they seem attracted to it but I still finding the buggers !

I haven't bought bananas this week as they were flying about them.

I think they come FROM the bananas. I don’t really get them unless I have those.

I tried the vinegar trap today and caught ten over the course of the day. Yes it’s slow but I’m very happy. I’ve got a plug in light zapper thing too but it only works at night when it’s dark.

We don’t buy bananas so it’s not that for us, I’ve used fruit fly traps but it’s been a week now and still have them they even get into my fridge somehow?! So definitely need something quicker

Deep clean where you see them. Boiling water down the drains. Red wine seems to work - happy a glass left out and they all go in (discovered by accident!)

*half a glass

I found sticky fly paper very effective last year. And gruesome. Got them all in a couple of days.

Thanks will try those, I need them gone quicker 😣

I bought Super Ninja fruit fly traps and they were gone within an hour. They’re great wee things.

I did the boiling water down the sink yesterday they don't seem as bad today hopefully they are dying off,

Do you have any house plants? I discovered that instead or (or possibly as well as) fruit flies we had fungus knats which look the same but live in the soil in plant pots. Solved the issue by adding layers of stones to cover the soil.

The sticky papers in my houseplants seems to do it - a couple of summers ago I couldn't seem to get rid of them until I did it, and haven't had them back since thank goodness.

Yeah, the vinegar traps are slow because they only catch the adults; if there are eggs hatching somewhere, you're basically fighting a losing battle.

The thing that actually sped it up for us was finding where they were breeding: usually one forgotten piece of fruit keeping the whole thing going. A kettle of boiling water down the drain daily for a week helps too as they love the gunk in there.

Once the source is sorted, the traps mop up the stragglers much faster. Quick tip that made a big difference for us: skip the cling film and just leave an open dish of cider vinegar with a drop of washing-up liquid in it. Catches them way quicker. My sister cleared a proper infestation in about a week doing that!

We wrote up everything that worked for us here if you want more ideas: how to get rid of fruit flies naturally ... hope that helps, you'll get there! 🤞