This Canadian right now has a terrible fight on her hands, and I’m losing. I’ve tried everything and need help.
**^*%%&%&&))#%#^% FRUIT FLIES!
I’ve never had this before. They’re in the sinks and driving me nuts. And I don’t even have any fruit! Everything is clean.....I’m a bit of a clean freak. Nothing left lying out, sinks scrubbed, tiles regularly washed down with cleanser, counter always clean, etc. I don’t know where these little microscopic demons with wings comes from, but I can’t get rid of them!
I have done the bowl with the cider vinegar, then I went to the bowl with the red wine, then the bowl with the white wine, then the bowl with the blush wine (a lovely Zinfandel I thought they’d love), then the bowl with a bit of beer. Covered the bowl with plastic wrap with a few holes and sure enough, lots of dead fruit flies in it.....but, miraculously, even more still living.
Any suggestions, other than moving?
I don’t know what else to do, if the cider vinegar thing didn’t get most of them. I never heard of plastic wrap with holes, how is made a funnel out of paper so they could get in, but not out. Probably similar. Maybe just keep it up, it does take some time to get them all.
Hubby bought something for his office some little fruit fly zapper, I’ll ask him about it when he comes up.
All I know is they’re probably after your apple pie. I would be too.
FRUIT FLIES
Those little critters are everywhere.
Tell her to pour Clorox down her garbage disposal and sink. Also clean the rubber around the garbage disposal.
They like heat. If she has a flattop stove, pulse Windex under the edge of the flattop to flush any out.
Fruit flies hide in grouting. Regrout the sink, and wash windows. They love to breed on glass. Windex kills them.
Raid Flea, Carpet & Room in the purple can is the only commercial chemical spray I founds that shows the insect and eggs after you spray it on a surface.
Laptops house insects. I sprayed mine with Raid and got rid of them.
A steamer kills them too.
Did you put the SOAP in like this says to do?
“Another way to kill the flies is by drowning them. “Fill a small jar or cup with apple cider vinegar and a few drops of dish soap, and then cover the container with plastic wrap tightly,” Ludwiczak suggests. Don’t forget to poke a few holes in the wrap and place the jar near the fruit fly infestation.Apr 18, 2023”
It smells like fermenting fruit so then the fruit flies go through the holes and drown.