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Posted on 06.28.17

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. Sandra says

    September 24, 2017 at 1:40 pm

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

  2. Connie Mitchell says

    July 2, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    Thanks

    • Vida Recipes says

      July 2, 2017 at 2:24 pm

      You’re welcome

  3. Mike Murray says

    June 29, 2017 at 9:12 am

    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.

  4. Cecelia says

    June 28, 2017 at 11:40 pm

    I use malt vinegar and 1 teaspoon of sugar with just a little warm water.

  5. Reba Becerra says

    June 28, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Thanks I needed that.

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:10 am

      you’re welcome

  6. Jenny Moore says

    June 28, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    Thank you

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:12 am

      You’re welcome 🙂

  7. robran12 says

    June 28, 2017 at 8:04 pm

    Do you have plastic wrap on bowl

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:11 am

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

  8. Lucy Manning says

    June 28, 2017 at 7:45 pm

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

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:11 am

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

  9. Betty Kinder-Kirby says

    June 28, 2017 at 7:40 pm

    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!

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:12 am

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

  10. Nancy Hubbard says

    June 28, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    Is that plastic wrap with a hole in it over the top of the bowl?

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:12 am

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

  11. Helen 9 says

    June 28, 2017 at 6:36 pm

    Will this work for flies?

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:13 am

      No it won’t. For flies use this – https://www.vidarecipes.com/2017/06/04/zip-lock-baggies-keep-flies-away/

  12. Sha says

    June 28, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    Gonna try this right now!!

  13. Barbara Graff says

    June 28, 2017 at 4:31 pm

    I tried and it worked

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:15 am

      Yes it really works!

  14. Donna Bagley says

    June 28, 2017 at 3:23 pm

    I did this two weeks ago and ta da We are now fruit fly free

    • Vida Recipes says

      June 29, 2017 at 7:15 am

      awesome!

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