The other day my friend Mary Katherine was asking if anyone knew how to get rid of fruit flies? I remembered a trick I heard a long time ago and decided to try it. Apparently we had attracted quite a few of them from some bananas and a long buried peach!
You take a very shallow dish and put apple cider vinegar almost to the top. You then put in a little liquid dish soap. The flies are attracted to the smell of the vinegar and the dish soap breaks the surface of it. The flies fall in and drown. I had to do it 3 days in a row to get rid of our flies. All those little black dots are dead flies! I was shocked and elated it worked because trying to chase these buggers with a fly swatter was not working. The best part is that it is not harmful to my family and I had it all in my pantry anyway.
You take a very shallow dish and put apple cider vinegar almost to the top. You then put in a little liquid dish soap. The flies are attracted to the smell of the vinegar and the dish soap breaks the surface of it. The flies fall in and drown. I had to do it 3 days in a row to get rid of our flies. All those little black dots are dead flies! I was shocked and elated it worked because trying to chase these buggers with a fly swatter was not working. The best part is that it is not harmful to my family and I had it all in my pantry anyway.
Great tip! I found you through the DIY Dreamer and would LOVE for you to come share at my weekly blog fest: http://fresh-eggs-daily.blogspot.com/2012/11/farm-girl-blog-fest-8.html
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Fresh Eggs Daily
GREAT tip Kelley!!! I'm soooo going to try this next time they up around my house!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer... From Dream To Reality!
Going to pin this. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to get your tip. I just read that the flys actually hatch from the fruit. I aways wondered how they knew there was fruit around.
ReplyDeleteawesome tip! I accidentally stumbled on a similar way...I just left some peach juice on the counter, and they all got attracted to it, then drowned. So gross, but very effective.
ReplyDeleteI think I like this technique rather than killing these fruit flies. It is so gross and can cause bacteria to spread all over the house. Thanks for posting this here.
DeleteGreat info! I keep fruit out on the counter hoping the kids will eat it and we get fruit flies from time to time. ma-wa-ha-ha now I know how to get them!
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Awesome tip, glad to see it works for you too! I've never done it purposely to get rid of fruit flies, but I did leave a bit of ACV in a measuring cup after cooking a while ago, and a few days later there was one little fruit fly drowned in it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at The Fun In Functional!
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