Fruit Fly Solution
Don’t you hate that time of the year when the Fruit Flies invade your kitchen? Landing on your food is disgusting! It seems like they are everywhere and you can’t get rid of them! You won’t get rid of them completely unless you throw out your ripe produce or put the ripe produce in the refrigerator and who wants to do that! There are many different methods for killing those annoying little flies. I read about them all and I tried a lot of the methods. I have used this method for years and it works as good as all of the other methods that I have tried and it is easy to do. It doesn’t get rid of all of them but it does keep the population way down. The flies in the bowl above was from one day.
Ingredients
Add vinegar and 3 drops of dishwashing liquid to a bowl.
Mix with a fork.
Set the bowl on the counter and wait for them to go swimming. They are highly attracted to vinegar. Add the dish soap and it creates a type of film that will keep them from being able to fly back out and then they drown.
Fruit Fly Solution
Directions
Pour the vinegar into a bowl. Add dishwashing liquid and mix with a fork. Set the bowl on the counter near the produce. Let it sit there until the vinegar is full of fruit flies or until the fruit flies are gone.
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Thank you!
I also pour a bit of apple juice in with it.
Now that’s one I haven’t tried! Thanks for sharing that!
OMG I never heard of doing that. You’re right they are SO annoying!
Nice! I love it!
Thank you Dan!
Nice recipe dear 🙂
Thanks mistimaan!
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If I can figure out how to do this I will. Not sure how to repost on my site.
Take your time and look at my blog how I have written
How did you get the logo on your site? Sorry I’m not too computer savvy..lol
Just click at the logo, it will open in a new page, then right click at the logo, save pic option will come, then save it, thn put the logo in your site
Thanks!
Got it thanks!
welcome
Excellent Diane – Also I have an abundance of food nets, couldn’t live without them! Like to think I run a tight ship !!!
LOL I have never seen food nets. Do they keep the fruit flies off your food? Those little creeps are so small!
This is great, thanks!
You’re welcome!
Great tip !
Thanks!
Wonderful post.:)
Thank you babl!
Hi Diane, so nice of you to like my post. 🙂
You’re welcome I find it fascinating for sure! I wish I could do things like that!
Thanks for the comment. Everybody has different liking. Your site is pretty good. 🙂
Thanks babl!
No unfortunately!
Thank you for the follow—so timely today with your fruit fly solution. I keep a compost container in the kitchen and that seems to attract more of them. I’ll set a dish of vinegar/Dawn right beside that container!
You’re welcome! We keep our compost in a bucket with a tight lid in the attached garage. Somehow they even get in there! Thanks for stopping by!
OK, we’re a typical geek family. So, I just emailed this article to my wife who’s sitting 5 feet away at her desk in our study – while I’m at mine readying a blog post for tomorrow morning. Since she’s lurking in her favorite online forum, I don’t want to interrupt. But, fruit flies are as much of a pain in our home as any other. All remedies are worth a try. 😉
If you have a lot of them, put a few bowls around. I have also pour bleach down my sink drains before going to bed. Have you noticed they disappear at night? They say they go to the drains at night and by pouring bleach down the drain it kills them. After you pour the bleach in close the drain to keep the smell of bleach from coming out. I only do this when I have a lot of fruit flies because the vinegar and dish soap usually takes care of them. Now get back to your blog…lol
I can’t stand those flies. We ended up setting off a bug fogger to kill them off. Not exactly a natural way but at least they were gone!
We have used this and it works like a charm.
John
Thank you! I really need this! The best way I’ve found to keep fruit flies to a minimum is don’t compost (which I prefer to do) and keep a cover on the garbage disposal at all times except when it’s in use. I also bought those little apples that have something sweet in them that the fruit flies are supposed to be attracted to and then they can’t get out. But I still have fruit flies. In fact, there’s always one that actually follows me around!! So I am happily going to try this. I hope balsamic vinegar will work just as well.
You’re welcome! I know how annoying they are!
Wow, that’s really cool! And a lot simpler than what I’ve been doing: the same solution in a jar with a paper cone in it. We had a bad infestation of them last year. They were even going after my coffee!
The dish soap makes it so they get stuck and drown. I used to use just vinegar and poke small holes through plastic wrap that I had on top of the bowl. They squeeze through the holes going down and can’t find the holes getting back out…except in my house…hahaha
Love it! Anything to get rid of the pesky things…Thank you for sharing and thank you for the follow …Nice blog have followed you 🙂
Reblogged this on In Dianes Kitchen and commented:
It’s that time of the year so I thought I would share this post from last year.
I’ve been using something similar for several years now and find it works wonders! I use smaller amounts due to having to change it often when too many flies collect in it. Just FYI – 1/3 cup ACV, 1 drop Dawn, 1T. water. Stir and set out. I set it right next to my compost basket and it really works.
Also, the flies go to the sink drains at night. Before you go to bed pour boiling water or bleach down the drain. This kills their eggs too! Thanks for the measurements!
That is good to know as well.
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very helpful
Thank you very much!