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Fruit Flys
asop
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Are these things brought into the house on fruit brought into the house? Are do you get rid of them🤨
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Pour some apple cider vinegar and some Dawn dishwashing liquid in a small bowl of water. Leave a nightlight on nearby.
Next morning, count your kills.
PESKEY sob's. Thanks
That works well. If you have any fruit out, apples, bananas, etc. seal it in a plastic bag or dispose of it. We get them about once or twice a year and between sealing up the fruit and the vinegar trick they are gone in, at most, 2 days. Bob
they actually live in your sink drain. when i get them i pour some bleach in the drains late at night. they are all suppose to be in there at that time. has worked for me over the years.
I agree with the glass we just put sugar water and dawn it fills up with just house flys I was going to the vinegar methond but sugar water seems to work my wife makes it up for the humming birds
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I just read an article about why someone quit their job. Working in a restaurant the person was given the task of straining soy sauce. What they found caught in the strainer was thousands of fruit flies!!😲
if you dont treat the drain you are not solving the problem.
Different animal. Fruit fly larvae feed in fruit. They are often cultured in pumpkin.
you are right He Dog i was thinking drain flies, sometimes mistaken for fruit flies.
I see some bugs around my kitchen maybe like the Ffs. Not 1 has gone in the cup put out this morning. I lucked out when seeing the unopened cider vinegar bottle when opening cabinet. I wanted em floating.
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” Groucho.
Got them here especially in the bathroom every time I open the medicine cabinet 4-5 of them fly out. We rarely buy any fruit and what fruit we buy gets refrigerated.
You sure they are not zu zu flies.
Again, not fruit flies, likely drain flies. A little bleach in the drains every couple of weeks oughta get them.
I had been recently having a problem also. I bought two "Insect Killer" light bulbs, (made by Pic) [800-799-7302] that have a small UV Bug light/zapper in them. ("Dual purpose Bug Zapper and LED light.") Screw in like regular light bulbs, a little elongated with a 195 lumen LED light facing downward. Flick the regular light switch on, both come on. Switch it off and then within a few seconds back on, only the bug feature comes on. Two days later now, no Fruit Flies.
Bought them where I worked off the closeout bin for $8.50 ea. (That would make the regular price on them $17.)
Worked Great!
I recently got a pack of two traps that look like little apples with a bunch of holes in the top. There was an attractant included and the instructions said to fill each with half and place them in affected areas.
So far it they are working.
We sell those as well mowhawk600. I was looking at one of those as a viable option a few weeks back.
Tomatoes will attract fruit flys. If your bring in tomatoes from the garden that is where their coming from. People think tomatoes are a vegetable, their not, their a fruit. In 1898 the vegetable growers of America took the case all the way to the Supreme Court and the court ruled that tomatoes are a vegetable. So by nature tomatoes are a fruit, but by law they are a vegetable.
Wouldn't pouring a ton of water down the drain just drowned them.
Say what? No, they do fine with water. Drain flies right?
Went to the dumpster and a cloud of them popped out. Winter can't come soon enough.
Fruit fly's multiply (proliferate) so fast, I used to think they divided like amoeba's (mitosis).
Note: The morning coffee is waking up some of my 9th grade brain cells!
I put out two of them in my apt............2 days ago.
No more fruit flyes.
Supossed to be good for 90 days.