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Hot summer days often bring unwanted parasitic fruit flies. If you leave a basket of fresh fruit on the kitchen table for your kids to snack on, and then what’s left is a few moldy peaches, black-spotted bananas, and annoying humming noises around them, maybe you have a problem with fruit flies. Get rid of those pesky little insects by trying some of the traps or elimination methods below.
Steps
Trapping
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Use damaged fruit. The fly problem may not be discovered until you realize you left the fruit until it went bad. Use the fly trap to catch them, which will completely kill the flies. Place a piece of spoiled fruit in a bowl, and stretch a layer of plastic wrap over the surface. Use a toothpick to poke many holes in the top of the bowl, and place them near a place where there are many flies, they will be attracted to the smell of spoiled fruit but can’t get out.
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Sacrificing a little wine. People aren’t the only thing attracted to wine. Fruit flies are also attracted to this wine. Make sure your fly catcher is ready every time you open a bottle of wine. Pour the wine out so that there is a little bit of wine about 2cm or less at the bottom. Leave the wine bottle near where the flies congregate, they will fly in, but the bottleneck effect will keep them in it.
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Try apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is a household product that should be in your home because it has so many useful uses. Including the ability to kill flies every time they explode in number. Pour a little vinegar into the cup. Then place a sheet of plastic or funnel-shaped paper on top. The funnel will block most of the entrance, creating a gap large enough for the flies to enter but too small for the less-intelligent flies to get out. A stronger measure is to add dishwashing liquid to the vinegar to create a fly-killing solution. [1] X Research Source
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Make a trap with dishwashing liquid. When mixed into a sweet-tasting solution, dishwashing liquid will not be detected by flies. Chemical ingredients in soap will act as poison and kill careless flies. Take a can, fill it with a mixture of vinegar (anything will do) and sugar – it doesn’t matter the proportions. Add a little dishwashing liquid and mix them well. The flies will be attracted to the sweet and sour taste, but they will die when they inhale the poison in the soap.
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Make a beer trap. Now you know fruit flies love alcohol, not just wine. Take a can of paint and fill it with beer about half way through, whatever beer is fine. Use a hammer and nail to punch a small hole in the lid, about 3-5 holes should be enough. Close the lid and leave it where the flies gather. After a few days you can pour the beer out and replace it with new beer to kill more. [2] X Research Source
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Use soda bottles. If you’re drinking soda, you’re in luck. Take a bottle of soda (any kind is fine, although chocolate varieties seem to work better) and punch a hole through the cap. Pour out the soda just leaving a little bit at the bottom of the bottle. Open the lid and check out the flies that are submerged in it!
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Use yeast. This may sound strange, but a fermented mix can help you in catching and eliminating fruit flies. Take half a cup of warm water and 1 teaspoon of sugar, and put in some dry yeast. Mix the mixture well (bubbles will be created!) and then cover the cup with a plastic sheet. Punch holes in the plastic to let the flies in, but make sure the hole is small enough that the flies can’t get out. [3] X Research Sources
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Hang the fly stick. This is certainly the least attractive sounding fly trap. However, the stick is very good at catching flies. Sticks with super glue will attract flies and trap them as soon as they appear. Place the adhesive pad on a spot where you don’t go often. Can be placed directly above the sink for best effect.
Keeping a Flies-Free Habitat
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Eliminate their habitat. Fruit flies, quite obviously, are attracted to fruit. However, they also go to any place that is dirty and has the most spoiled food. Try to dispose of spoiled food immediately, and keep the area where the bin and drains are located clean and free of leftovers. This will reduce your chances of making your home a breeding ground for them.
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Kill their eggs. If you see a noticeable increase in the number of flies, they are likely laying eggs somewhere around your house. Fruit flies like moist places, such places can be the kitchen or the bathtub or the drain in the bathroom. Pour disinfectant down the drain to kill fly eggs if they are there. If you don’t have a disinfectant, bleach can be used instead, but they are so weak and not viscous enough that they may not stick to the eggs to kill them. [4] X Research Sources
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Grow a basil plant indoors. Oddly enough, fruit flies don’t like basil. If you plant one of these plants and keep them green, you also make the flies disappear. Grow basil in a small pot and keep it in your home near where flies seem to like to congregate. Or keep it near the fruit basket, flies will be less likely to appear in the future.
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Use cedar wood. Another strange natural enemy, the fruit fly is repelled by the smell of cedar. Find ways to make this wood appear in your home, used as furniture or firewood, and the number of fruit flies will decrease. Keep these pieces of wood around your stove and near where they lay eggs to keep flies away.
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Spray some essential oils. Make your home smell better and keep flies and other insects away by regularly spraying your room with certain essential oils. The scent of lemongrass and lavender repels flies and other bugs, and makes it impossible for them to gather in one area. Mix 10 drops of an essential oil with 60ml of hot water, and spray all over your room. [5] X Research Sources
Kill Flies Quickly
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Make a fly swatter with an adhesive layer. Like most people, your first reaction when you see a lot of flies is to want to smack them to death. Unfortunately for us, their small size makes them extremely difficult to hit. To fix this problem, make a homemade sticky fly swatter. Take a styrofoam sheet, and spray it with a thick layer of cooking oil. When you smash those tiny flies, they will get caught in the cooking oil and stick on the foam board, eventually they will die.
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Use a hair dryer. If you want revenge on those nasty little flies, take out your hair dryer and point it at them! Turn on the hair dryer to let the air blow out of the fan, the intake from the other side will suck the flies in, where they will be cooked by the heating wire. It sounds awful, of course. But those flies will disappear pretty quickly.
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Burn a little mosquito scent. Fruit flies’ microscopic respiratory systems are very delicate, and they need a constant supply of clean air. This means that inhaled irritants, such as smoke, can kill them very quickly. Of course, you can’t light a fire in your house, but you can burn mosquito incense, smoke and aromas coming from the sticks that will kill them slowly. [6] X Research Sources
Use a vacuum cleaner. Use a vacuum with a flexible hose (and the stronger the suction, the more effective it is). It should also have a large mouthpiece.
- Set a fruit trap. As they gather around the fruit, slowly enter.
- When the flies have been sitting for a while, they will not fly immediately, unlike when they have just landed. Suck them up quickly, then dispose of them outside.
- Important: if the dust bag is full, the suction will not be strong enough for this method to be effective.
Advice
- Fruit flies take about 8-10 days to mature from hatching from eggs, so continue to use elimination methods even if the first generation of flies disappears. This will certainly mean that their future generations will also be eliminated.
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