Vinegar + a drop or two of dish detergent. It works, I was surprised at how quickly. But you have to take the time to clean everything first, or it won’t matter. Dirty slobs who drive Volkswagon’s and vote Democrat should probably just get used to the little shits.

YOU GUYS MAKE A GIRL FEEL GOOD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY…I have become a sadistic, ranting, raving, lunatic at the least kill of one of these bastards!!!! I cant eat, sleep or even take a bath without theses swarming evil little control freaks in my face I want them all dead…I will try all of your suggestions and by the way raid doesnt work.

Hi thanks for this. We recently moved to GC and have been infested over the last few weeks, and im coming to the end of my teather with this. They are such annoying dirty little gits, I can no longer enjoy any food with the worry they will try and share my meal, ive turned to eating out constantly, or getting take aways and covering up, i cant dare prepare anything, god forbid I want to make a sandwich, I have to keep looking back at my bread/butter sititng their waiting for fillings every 2 secs to make sure the gits havent tucked in, I end up constantly shaking my food pre bite/post bite (sanwiches/burgers) to avoid the gits settling on it. I have to check down my coke srraw each sip to make sure im not gonna suck one up.

Ive taken to going rambo on them with a newspaper and I think my count is around 342 at the moment. Getting a kill on the move is always satisfying, the full hungry sleeping varietys are slightly less so. However this has caused our walls to not only be covered in blood and dead flie bodys, but newspaper ink, which is considerably harder to get out, so I have to take an A4 peice of paper and wrap that around the newspaper, which generally means my weapon suffers in length, and my kill count/ kill to swing ratio subsequently drops.

Another problem is when I go killing, I get hot and bothered and have to open the balcony doors, therefore inviting more pests into the mix, flie catch 22.

UGH I hate these things.

if you wanna do sadistic, then pull out a bottle of spritz or super-hold hair spray. not the light-weight stuff, get the super-hold stuff. if you want the real deal, go to the black haircare section.
i usually wait for them to swarm the kitchen sink and then spray like crazy. the hair spray gums up thier wings. they drop right out of mid-air and crawl around for a while. most will eventually stop crawling because the hairspray eventually freezes them into place. i don’t know if it kills them, but it makes them unable to move, which is just as good. then you can just sweep them up or vacuum them away. there’s always a sticky hairspray mess left over, but its still better than a gnat infestation.

-jazz

I used the vinegar and soap and it worked wonders. But i still have them. I’ll continue using the mix and hopefully they will soon all be gone~!

I have those little boogers! I know that they are God’s creatures and play a role in our ecosystem, but, this is TOO MUCH!!! My friend and I had the windows open and were having a sleepover and were on the laptop inside my room and had the TV on. Then, they started ATTACKING! With their little nuclear bombs, they started running into the laptop and the TV, trying to break down the systems! We ignored them at first, but then, like, 14 million appeared and they started going inside the openings on our faces!!! There were 5 that landed in my eyes. The rest were going inside our ears. I think that I even swallowed one. Finally, we couldn’t take much more of this, so we dove underneath our military base (hence, the bed covers) and continued our conversation under there. They are ruthless, I tell you! In the morning, there was at least a hundred dead fruit flies on the telivision in the morning. We could barely even see the TV screen! I live in the country, so we tend to have a lot of them.
That was nearly a month ago, and now we still have some! Inside our kitchen, my mom and I sat up a “Fruit Fly Catcher” that has a lot of soda and dishwashing liquid in it. We wrote on the front “Fruit Fly Hotel. First night free!” then skull and crossbones. Maybe this time it will work!

There’s just ONE fruit fly in my room. Just ONE. It’s actually flying about my face as I type. I have tried everything to capture it…but it escapes my wrath every time.

It’s already crash landed into my face a few times and I really don’t want to inhale it (nose or mouth) while sleeping…ick.

What can I do???

I have been desperately searching for a solution to our fruit fly problem. Last year I used a similar idea to apple cider vinegar, except it was old wine, and while it worked amazing- tons of fruit flies killed - it seemed to attract even more into the house. So it really created more negative than positive. Do you know why that is? Did I do something wrong?

Never had a gnat problem before… but boy do I have one now!

It started out innocently enough. One or two fruitflies, tops. I thought to myself, “Self, you’ve seen them before. They’ll go away on their own. Don’t sweat it.”

Told my wife the same thing. I was wrong.

Those one or two turned into a couple dozen really fast. I turned to teh interwebz for some answers. Learned about the apple cider vinegar in a bottle trick. Tried it. Captured and killed nearly thirty of the nasty little flying soul nazis. Thought I had won the war.

I was wrong. Again.

After a couple of days of peace, an army of gnats assaulted our home! Seemingly out of nowhere, too. Those damned pilots of winged dread!

Okay, I readied myself for war. As any good solider would do, I performed a bit of recon. Perhaps I missed a gnat food source somewhere?

I searched the house high and low. Nada. From where in hades did these suckers come from? Wait a minute… the garage! These tiny farts must be squeezing their way into our abode via the door to the garage. After all, the garage is where the large garbage cans are kept.

Alas, I found their home base! And what a disgusting base it was. I missed one garbage day. Just one. But that was enough for the gnats to breed hundreds if not thousands of soldiers. Given that trash day was the following day, I took the can out. Most of the gnats either stayed inside the can or swarmed around me as I marched towards the sidewalk.

The next morning, I watched with glee as the garbage man unloaded the trash into his truck, replete with swarming squadrons of gnats! But I knew that while a major battle was won, the war was not yet over. I went to the grocery store and picked up some weaponry:

Can of Raid for Flying Insects
Large jug of Apple Cider Vinegar
Two bananas
Two boxes of Entenmann’s blueberry muffins (okay, not a weapon… a snack for my son)

As soon as I pulled into my driveway, I opened the garage door and stopped short of driving my car into the bay. I got out of my car with Raid in hand. Starting from the back and working my way back to the car, I misted the entire space. Damned gnats! You shall die!

Onward to the house! I setup some traps. Plastic water bottles (cut in half) with holey cling wrap covers, all filled with a slice of banana and a serving of ACV. Works like a charm. I seal and dispose of bottles in regular intervals. Now only a few gnats appear. I’ll keep going until no gnats exist!

The best thing to get rid of fruit flies is fill a plastic beaker/tub with vinegar, cover with cling film and make small holes in it (large enough for the flies to get through though), and leave it where ever you need to, even do a couple where needed, they get drawn to it, go to feed and drown in the vinegar!!

Haha I love they way you are writing down your thoughts.

All these flies seem to show up every time my mother comes. You see, she buys all these vegetable and fruits for me, and leaves them out of the fridge.

The first time, the fruit flies were tracked in my bathroom! In my cabinet (how the HECK did thy squeeze in there? Thank god everything was sealed) and on my sink’s soap (I use a solid soap). I kept smashing them, until no more were left there.

the second time they were lying in a cupboard where I stored carrier and essential oils! EWW! They were trying to get in my seled bottles, those horrible creatures!!

Now, after another mum’s visit I suddenly have them again. They are constantly curious to see what I was browsing on the internet, they were stuck to my Lolita Lempicka perfume until I hided it, I find their babies in every possible place. Especially yesterday I was hysterical, I found some of their babies in kitchen cupboards where I store food! They were attracted by honey! I looked so terrified, that my boyfriend (who doesn’t live with ,e_ took out every shelf of the cupboard and cleaned it with chlorine. And today I used chlorine on every drain in my house.

I haven’t seen any fruit flies since the morning, but I am always concerned.

I prefer them over roaches though
Good luck everyone!

this made me sad when i saw the dead bugs

I been having this problems with fruit fly’s. They are draving me crazy. I have completely clean with bleach, and they still in my whole house…. I am going nuts… anyone has anyother ideas?

I thought I was the only one annoyed to insanity by these critters! Then I saw a close up of them on another website (yuk yuk yuk), and found out they LAY THEIR eggs in fruit, and I am declaring an all out WAR! We sprayed while we were away for Thanksgiving, removed all traces of food,(fruit is no longer allowed to be purchased until this is over) bleached, rinsed, plugged drains, and yup the freakin things coulda spelled out “Welcome Home” with their live bodies on my counter. The vacuum’s been fun for my 10 year old, but lordy, I have spent way too much time fighting this! I’m going to continue to try many ideas (the more sadistic, the better, IMO) and maybe drop the temp in the house to a balmy 35F.

you have to be very careful leaving glasses of wine around the house as this may attract winos and they are herder to get rid of than fruit flies.

I found out this past summer, from a very nice bug guy, that these
flies might not be fruit flies but a ‘drain’ fly. I’ve never heard of them but I tried the wine, juice and other suggestions to no avail. Soooo I did what the bug guy told me to do. 1 cup of bleach down all
your drains and leave it sit for about an hour. And guess what, next day I never saw one fly. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!

The battle began about a week ago. First it was just a couple of fruit flies, then the brigades arrived shortly thereafter. I came on here and looked for solace as they were mounting further infestation. I tried a few things on here and though all were appreciated, not all worked. So, after almost wiping them out entirely, here is what I have to advice.

Sarcasm. Fruit flies can’t stand it. “Hey Fruit Fly want to don’t you land on my food” I literally saw them frown and leave. It was beautiful.

Ok, here’s what I really did. Red wine glass with crappy red wine and vinegar. Stretched the plastic wrap over the top, punched holes wtih a toothpick and gave it an hour or longer. Then came back with some Simple Green (household cleaner, I’m sure others work, it’s what I had) and sprayed the ones on top. I emptied the glass full of those little bastards and refilled. That took most of them out.

The other trick is take a soft drink from a fast food place with the lid and put an orange peel inside of it. The fruit flies climb down the straw and can’t get out. I’m finally a little fruit fly deficient and couldn’t be happier. Good luck and take no prisoners, it’s war!!!

PS forget the soap. I dont know what that is all about. They die just fine without it.

The best and simplest means of eliminating or at least controlling these buggers is a glass of red wine placed in the kitchen. I discovered this years ago when I was single; I left a glass out overnight one summer. The next day after I got home I was amazed to find about a dozen of them floating belly up.
Through experimenting, I found strong red wine to work best (Merlot, Cabernet) but go cheap if you are buying wine for only this purpose. It is also best to use a small glass with a small rim, filled to about an inch from the top. We usually put the full glass near the fruit bowl and change it out about every 2-3 days or you can strain out the dead ones and add a bit of fresh bait.

I HATE, JUST HATE THESE FRUIT FLIES. THEY ARE FLYING IN MY FACE,IN MY DRINK, AND ON MY FOOD. I STILL CANT FIND WERE THEY ARE COMING FROM BUT I KNOW THAT IF ANOTHER FRUIT FLY FLYS IN MY FACE IM GOING TO GO CRAZY.
HELP!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!