Help please: Fruit flies driving me insane

Binxy

I've found out why there are less in my kitchen.

I had a half empty bottle of red wine there. It now contains about 15 dead fruit flies :eek:

So a red wine trap might be really efficient too!

Magentasue

I've noticed this - when we had them I had to put a piece of paper over my glass. It's that or down it in one!

Becles

I had some that I thought were originating from the kitchen bin. I emptied it more frequently and kept scrubbing it out with hot water and bleach, but they still kept coming back.

I then found the source was in the cupboard next to the bin. I've got dog food on the top shelf, and spare lightbulbs on the bottom shelf. A dog treat had fallen at somepoint and was going all mushy behind the lightbulbs, providing an excellent breeding ground!

Might be worth having a quick wipe round your cupboards in case anything nasty is lurking!

AussieLass

I have no idea what your talking about. We never have a FLY problem over here. Roll on winter. They are mostly a summer thing. Disgusting little critters. They lurk around the back screen and the minute you open the door they rush in. The minute you cook something, the screen door is dotted with little black bodies just waiting to come in. :mad:

Contains_Mild_Peril

I discovered a vinegar trap completely by accident, when I neglected to replace the cap on my vinegar bottle from Farmfoods. It has a shaker thingy - a sort of inner cap with a little round hole in the middle, only just big enough for a fly to get in, and once one fly went inside, others followed and they all got stuck. That's the good thing about them - they're not very bright!
They seem pretty much immune to conventional methods, e.g. fly spray and fly paper. They also seem very attracted to bananas, so I've taken to keeping my bananas in an airtight tub.