How do you rid your home of fruit flies?
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These pesty little flies magically appear when fruit which is stored on the counter, etc. starts to ripen. Potatoes that are starting to rot also produce the same thing!
Once you've been infested, you must either be very vigilant and take care of the problem yourself or call a professional exterminator (which will be expensive and they'll probably have to visit your home more than once!).
The first thing to do is to store fruit in the regrigerator. Root vegetables that need to be store in a cool dark place (like potatoes) should be moved to the garage, outer storage closet, etc. Wash the counters and garbage cans in your house where fruit residue might be.
You'll need to get a good supply of small flying insect killer spray and wherever, whenever you see them - SPRAY! They will migrate from your kitchen to other rooms, so you're going to need to walk around with the spray can for a week or two and get them where they are! Even it it's just one, they'll multiply into a hundred very quickly, so keep that spray can in your hip pocket.
Remember that once the nasty little critters seem to be gone, they've probably laid eggs and another wave will present itself. Just be ready with your spray as soon as they appear so they won't have an opportunity to lay their eggs and perpetuate the cycle!
Buy an extra can or two of spray and recruit other family members to join the "war on insects." You have to be vigilant but make a game out of it and with a little patience, there'll be no more insects "flying the skies" of your home!
Other answers:
Don't leave fruit out, they almost instantaneously dissappear.
Don't leave fruit out, they almost instantaneously dissappear.
There is a flying insect spray by Raid. It works really good.
put a rotten pumkin outside in your yard
Don't leave fresh fruit or vegetables on the countertop, keep them in the fridge. Empty your kitchen garbage regularly.
put the fruits into somekind of shiny glass closets, and the flies will think it's nothing but a clean space, and they'll dive in.
We buy these little plastic pieces, they look like cheese to me and you put them by your potted plats and or open air, the gnats will be gone in days. I don't know what they are called but you can find them in hardware stores.
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Really tacky, but not pun intended, those glue fly strips work to get rid of them too, but kinda unsightly.
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Did you recently buy a new house plant? We got fruit fly (actually fungus gnat) infestation from the contaminated soil in a house plant we bought. After we took ALL our house plants outside for a few days (and never bring them back in), the flies were all gone.
Put your fruits and vegetables in the fridge. The ones in the air will die off in 3 days.
Organic fruits and vegetables don't have the wax that prevent the bugs in the skin from hatching. There is really no way to get rid of them once they are airborne. Luckily, they die in a few days.
Also, bleach is a very effective pesticide. Baking soda, ammonia and ice (WTF???) won't do anything. Those are all chemicals so watch how you mix them.
Sanitation is the first thing to look at - get rid of anything that is laying around your yard our house that lets them have a breeding ground.
Next would be to use a trap for them. This is better than insecticides because it doesn't get chemicals on your fruit.
After that would be insecticides.
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