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How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies

Those disgusting fruit flies in your kitchen. They swarm around your fruit basket, your garbage and God only knows what they do on the fruit! Well, I have a trick that will get rid of your fruit flies!

You will need the following:

A little bowl

Apple cider vinegar

A drop of dish soap (I used dawn)

 

Instructions:

  1. Fill the little bowl with apple cider vinegar so that the depth is approximately 1in/2.5cm.
  2. Drop 1 drop of any dishwashing liquid in.
  3. Place the bowl(s) around your kitchen on the countertop or under the sink, any where you sees fruit flies.

 

This trap will start working immediately. The flies will be attracted to the scent of the apple cider vinegar. As you can see in the pic I have a few captured already!

This will not work on house flies, however this method will – Keep Flies Away

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  1. a slice of lemon in a dish and clear wrap on top, pierce a few small holes and this gathers fruit flies too

  3. RE: Splash approx. one ounce of ammonia into sink
    In addition, in your sinks, in the rooms where the FF are, splash ammonia straight fro the bottle into the sink, let it drain down past stopper into connection pipes below; do this at night after use of sink has ended for the day. Believe it or not, the gnats, or Fruit Flies like it down there in that silly drain. I did not believe it either. I asked an old timer, old plumber about ammonia into a drain fable at night time, in effort the knock off the gnats. He said FOR SURE it works did it for all his customers over the years. This time of the year, if you cut up melons in the kitcchen wash off in the sink, those damn gnats and FF come from no where, right? Tonight and the next few nights spalsh some plain old ammonia in that kitchen sink. Try it, it works.

    • You can do it either way. It works just as well without it and I never use it anymore

  8. Is that saran wrap over it? Are you suppose to cover it or not? Just wanting to make sure it works! 😉

    • You can do it either way. It works just as well without it and I never use it anymore

  9. Question-Should I cover the bowl with plastic wrap as it looks like in the photo? Do I then punch holes in the plastic wrap? Thank you for a reply!

    • You can do it either way. It works just as well without it and I never use it anymore

    • You can do it either way. It works just as well without it and I never use it anymore