re: Fruit flies since the flood....... Anyone else experiencing this?

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Pour some apple cider vinegar and put some dish soap in a cup. Will eradicate those tiny bastards

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Apple cider vinegar works great, but in order to get rid of them you have to trap them.

Here's my solution:

Get a mason jar and fill the bottom with apple cider vinegar. Cut an apple and/or some grapes, pretty much any fruit and put a few in with the apple cider vinegar (an apple core works great, and you can eat the rest of the apple). Get a small funnel and put it in the top of the mason jar. This way the flies get in but can't find their way out. Works great. In a pinch, if you cut around a water bottle about 3/4 of the way from the top then put the fruit/apple cider vinegar in the bottom part and then flip the top of the bottle over and wedge it back into the bottom it will basically make the same contraption as the mason jar/funnel. Good luck, I hate those frickers.

1. Get some apple cider vinegar
2. Pour it in a small glass about halfway
3. Put Saran Wrap tightly over the glass
4. Poke small holes in wrap with toothpick
5. Sit back and watch the slaughter

Fruit Flyer Catcher



buy some of these and put by the sinks... they work great

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meauxjeaux2

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i have these bad. You walk in the yard and they scatter.

get your concoction of whatever for fruit flies. Put the trap under a cabinet in your kitchen. Get some fly sticky traps and hang them above the cup, jar whatever. It will catch the ones that are reluctant to go into the trap. I actually caught 3x as many of them in the sticky trap than in the jar full of Apple cider vinegar.



not my trap but they work great

It's the time of year, idiot.

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Same here. I've never had flies in my house before. My subdivision didn't flood, but our surrounding area did. Everyone in my subdivision is having this fruit/drain fly problem as well.

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hese things are bigger than a typical fly, bluish-green in color, and come in swarms. They seem to gather on the dog turds in my back yard.

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like black on an african american once that turn hits the ground. i have been battling them since the flood. using insecticide on them first then throwing the turd in the pond. but i feel im fighting a loosing battle. they are everywhere.

ETA: what shithead downvoted me?

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My yard is full of small white moths. Never seen them before. And i do have the small fruit flies.

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Those are likely sod web worms. By the time they are moths, it's too late.

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not from judging by google images. I know what he is talking about cause i have them too. they are the size of fruit flies but are white and when you look close they look like they have cotton as wings.

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Yeah they get bad quick. Put out a Tupperware half full of apple cider vinegar with a few drops of liquid dish detergent in it and that'll help get rid of them

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This.

I just did this as a home remedy and it worked great. They say leave it out for about a week or 2 to make sure you get the ones carrying the eggs and the babies that they have like every 4 or 5 days.

Hope you get rid of them. Those little shits are annoying.