This actually worked at my parents' house. Take any container with a small mouth like a coffee jar or something. Fill it a quarter way with apple cider vinegar or balsamic vinegar. Then fashion a sheet of paper into a funnel and tape it. Make sure the opening is about an inch or two wide. Then place it in the jar, point down. Make sure the paper cannot touch the vinegar. The flies with fly in but cannot find their way out. As soon as most of them are in, you can throw it all in a plastic nag and into the trash. Good luck!
Hi there: You seem to have gotten a lot of good advice! We'd had success with vinegar and red wine. Since we eat a lot of fruit, we've been rinsing them right after we bring them home (to hopefully rinse off the eggs) before we put them on the counter. Hope this helps! :)
We have this problem at work. We took a plastic cup and put a little water w/ a few drops of honey in the bottom of the glass. Then took a small piece (maybe 6 inch square) We rolled the paper into a cone and put it in the glass. But not touching the liquid at the bottom of the cup. It works great. We catch a few every day. They fly down the cone to get to the sweet liquid and get trapped and die.
You need something sweet in the glass to draw them. We've used wine, soda, honey, juice.
You can put apple cider vinegar in a bowl and put plastic wrap on it. Poke small holes and they will get stuck in there. Also, make sure where they are coming from. I couldn't get rid of mine and as it turns out there was an old basket that had some residue of fruit in it and they were having a field day in there! Good Luck.
Easy! Found this on line. Keep all fruit in fridge while you do the following. Put a little red wine in a bowl and break the surface tension with a teeny tiny bit of dish washing detergent. Then leave on counter where the fruit flies are hanging out and enjoy finding them drowned later! It takes a few days, depending on how many there are.
Take a small paper cup put something sweet in it like juice or wine cover with plastic wrap put a small rubber band around top to hold it in place and poke several samll holes in it with a pencil tip, not to big. They will fly in to get the sweet mixture and then can't get out. Hope this helps.
Helen
Here is how I got rid of mine--put vinegar in bowls in my living room, dining room, den and kitchen. The next thing I knew the fruit flies migrated to the vinegar. I did it for several days. Hope this is helpful to you.
Dear Robyn, As much as I do not like cold fruit, I would say put you fruit in the fridge or get a cover for the bowl or basket you keep it in. Grandma Mary
This will work..definitely. Always does..get a small bowl of apple cider vinegar and put a few drops of dish detergent in it. The fruit flies are attracted to it and within a day there will be many dead ones in there. replace as needed. It works wonders.
Audrey B.
Hi Robyn:
Place 1 drop of Peppermint essential oil in 8 ounces of water (spray bottle) and spray the flies and/or the surrounding areas. See if that works.
If you or any of your children are taking homeopathic remedies, then refrain from using peppermint.
All the best,
Nicole
Holistic Healthcare Provider
www.WholeCreations.com