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Slavac 09-13-2009 09:00 PM

How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Sink's spotless, trash taken out, no food for them to get to yet I have fruit flies. Help!

smokin5 09-13-2009 09:02 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Get rid of your fruit? :ss

theonlybear4CORT 09-13-2009 09:03 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbjt3OZydg

WyGuy 09-13-2009 09:03 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by smokin5 (Post 547895)
Get rid of your fruit? :ss

:r:r

DPD6030 09-13-2009 09:04 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Place fruit outside of house

Slavac 09-13-2009 09:12 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Facepalm.jpg

Cyanide 09-13-2009 09:35 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Get rid of your "empty" cans and bottles too. I have a teenager who refuses to clean up after self (until I once a month move his crap out onto the drive way so he can either clean up or move out....damn, he always cleans up). Anyhow, he always leaves cans around and so when we get fruit flies, its always the cans where the flies are hiding.

Skywalker 09-13-2009 11:02 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Fruit Fly Trap!!!
http://www.allthingsorganic.com/How_...uitFlyTrap.gif
http://i.livescience.com/images/0711...ly-trap-02.jpg

MedicCook 09-13-2009 11:09 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Fruit is not part of my Pepsi & Cigars diet.

Skywalker 09-13-2009 11:11 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by MedicCook (Post 548139)
Fruit is not part of my Pepsi & Cigars diet.

Pepsi is not part of my Beer and Cigars diet!!!:r

MrOneEyedBoh 09-13-2009 11:50 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
/\ I'm with that guy

Slavac 09-13-2009 11:51 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Skywalker (Post 548131)

Trap set, claymores readied, beer in ice box.

captain53 09-14-2009 05:27 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
I have had pretty good luck with those "bug bombs" available at Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Etc....
Good Luck.

Dunkel 09-14-2009 05:46 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Take a shallow white bowl and put some water, a couple drops of dishwashing liquid, and a little vinegar in it. They will die in there quickly. Replace this mixture everyday. Make up a few of them for better results. Put one near your TV and lamps/lights. They are attracted to the light and electromagnetic field (I heard it on a bug killing show). No matter what we do we get fruit flies every summer. I hate them.

OLS 09-14-2009 06:08 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
I just made a trap similar to Skywalker's for large flies last week. My landlady has
a couple of dogs, and recently got another one as an inside threat neutralizer.
Problem is she sheds, so now there are 3 dogs out back and all they DO is $hit.
So the flies have been getting out of hand. I took some wet dog food and a piece
of dog poo and built a very similar fly trap and got a few, but there are too many
alternative piles for them to infest. I got a FEW though. But inside, that trap
should REALLY work well. That concept also works well with minnows in a stream,
and with mammals in a much larger form. The old funnel trick.

mmblz 09-14-2009 07:32 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
hardware store has a trap. you pour some liquid in a plastic thing, it attracts them, seems to work.

chippewastud79 09-14-2009 08:13 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Wait 24 hours until they die :tu

kenstogie 09-14-2009 09:13 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
I once had them and my girlfriend says I am the neatest, cleanest guy she's ever seen, any way what I did and it worked was to...

-Clean up right after eating, meticulously

-covering the garbage

-setting a trap

-spraying everything down with a mild chlorine/water solution

-pouring bleach OR vinegar down th disposal/drain

-another though that may or may not work would be to wait until you are going on a ski weekend and turn the heat to low. that'll should help.

Hope this helps!

MrOneEyedBoh 09-14-2009 10:01 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by OLS (Post 548312)
I just made a trap similar to Skywalker's for large flies last week. My landlady has
a couple of dogs, and recently got another one as an inside threat neutralizer.
Problem is she sheds, so now there are 3 dogs out back and all they DO is $hit.
So the flies have been getting out of hand. I took some wet dog food and a piece
of dog poo and built a very similar fly trap and got a few, but there are too many
alternative piles for them to infest. I got a FEW though. But inside, that trap
should REALLY work well. That concept also works well with minnows in a stream,
and with mammals in a much larger form. The old funnel trick.


Ive dont it too. Like so.
http://i29.tinypic.com/16lxon5.jpg

Cyanide 09-14-2009 10:29 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Gurkha Beast every night. That should kill all flies

rack04 09-14-2009 10:32 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dunkel (Post 548300)
Take a shallow white bowl and put some water, a couple drops of dishwashing liquid, and a little vinegar in it. They will die in there quickly. Replace this mixture everyday. Make up a few of them for better results. Put one near your TV and lamps/lights. They are attracted to the light and electromagnetic field (I heard it on a bug killing show). No matter what we do we get fruit flies every summer. I hate them.

This is what I do.

BlackDog 09-14-2009 11:15 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
We've had some here this summer. I've used a short juice glass with a piece of banana in it, cover the top with plastic wrap, and poke a couple holes with a pencil in the plastic wrap. They get in the glass but not out. Once a day I'd cover the top with my hand, take it outside, and open the plastic wrap. Seemed to work pretty well.

Slavac 09-14-2009 11:16 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
I've set both the funnel and the shallow dish traps, will report back.

If this fails, anyone have a flamethrower I can borrow?

St. Lou Stu 09-14-2009 11:20 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackDog (Post 548746)
We've had some here this summer. I've used a short juice glass with a piece of banana in it, cover the top with plastic wrap, and poke a couple holes with a pencil in the plastic wrap. They get in the glass but not out. Once a day I'd cover the top with my hand, take it outside, and open the plastic wrap. Seemed to work pretty well.

Did you try tagging their ears to see if the same ones return?

Cyanide 09-14-2009 11:33 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Or giving them vasectomies so that they waste precious breeding time with the un-altered wild individuals, resulting in lower egg counts in the breeding population at large?

yourchoice 09-14-2009 11:39 AM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Slavac (Post 548748)
I've set both the funnel and the shallow dish traps, will report back.

If this fails, anyone have a flamethrower I can borrow?

You received good advice. They'll both work. If I had to guess the shallow dish trap will win the contest. Has worked better for me.

kenstogie 09-14-2009 12:07 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
I like the vasectomy idea. Not sure about the logistics though.

ahc4353 09-14-2009 12:08 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by St. Lou Stu (Post 548754)
Did you try tagging their ears to see if the same ones return?

:r




How about you take a shower? :hm

Slavac 09-14-2009 12:12 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ahc4353 (Post 548816)
:r




How about you take a shower? :hm

[[Adds Al to bomb list]]

Bastage

pfm721 09-14-2009 01:35 PM

Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies?
 
Echo Dunkel. Used that very technique just last week to get rid of the ones in my apartment.


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