How do I get rid of fruit flies?

09-13-2009, 10:00 PM

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

smokin5 · 09-13-2009, 10:02 PM

Get rid of your fruit?

theonlybear4CORT · 09-13-2009, 10:03 PM

with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbjt3OZydg

WyGuy · 09-13-2009, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smokin5

Get rid of your fruit?

DPD6030 · 09-13-2009, 10:04 PM

Place fruit outside of house

09-13-2009, 10:12 PM

Facepalm.jpg

09-13-2009, 10:35 PM

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 · 09-14-2009, 12:02 AM

Fruit Fly Trap!!!

MedicCook · 09-14-2009, 12:09 AM

Fruit is not part of my Pepsi & Cigars diet.

Skywalker · 09-14-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by MedicCook

Fruit is not part of my Pepsi & Cigars diet.

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

MrOneEyedBoh · 09-14-2009, 12:50 AM

/\ I'm with that guy

09-14-2009, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skywalker

Fruit Fly Trap!!!

Trap set, claymores readied, beer in ice box.

captain53 · 09-14-2009, 06:27 AM

I have had pretty good luck with those "bug bombs" available at Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Etc....
Good Luck.

Dunkel · 09-14-2009, 06:46 AM

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, 07:08 AM

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, 08:32 AM

hardware store has a trap. you pour some liquid in a plastic thing, it attracts them, seems to work.

chippewastud79 · 09-14-2009, 09:13 AM

Wait 24 hours until they die

kenstogie · 09-14-2009, 10:13 AM

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, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OLS

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.

09-14-2009, 11:29 AM

Gurkha Beast every night. That should kill all flies

09-13-2009, 10:00 PM	#1
Slavac Guest Posts: n/a	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!

09-13-2009, 10:02 PM	#2
smokin5 Have My Own Room Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: On the Mountaintop - AZ Posts: 2,002 Trading: (69)	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Get rid of your fruit? __________________ Pobody's Nerfect.

09-13-2009, 10:03 PM	#3
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09-13-2009, 10:04 PM	#5
DPD6030 Shepard of the sheeple Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Andrew Location: The Mitten Posts: 7,166 Trading: (151)	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Place fruit outside of house

09-13-2009, 10:12 PM	#6
Slavac Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Facepalm.jpg

09-13-2009, 10:35 PM	#7
Cyanide Guest Posts: n/a	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.

09-14-2009, 12:02 AM	#8
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09-14-2009, 12:09 AM	#9
MedicCook Mila smoked my cigar Join Date: Jan 2009 First Name: Ryan Location: Schaghticoke, NY Posts: 10,946 Trading: (7)	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Fruit is not part of my Pepsi & Cigars diet. __________________ 27 World Series Championship's "If your wife doesn't like the aroma of your cigar, change your wife.", Zino Davidoff

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MrOneEyedBoh Hon. Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 953 Trading: (30)	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? /\ I'm with that guy

09-14-2009, 06:27 AM	#13
captain53 Have My Own Room Join Date: Jul 2009 First Name: Dave Location: Lake of the Ozarks & Austin, TX Posts: 1,333 Trading: (3)	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.

09-14-2009, 06:46 AM	#14
Dunkel Maduro & Oscuro Whore-O Join Date: Jun 2009 First Name: Doug Location: West by God Virginia Posts: 2,232 Trading: (75)	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. __________________ Blue Label,Any Filipe Gregorio,Acid,Don Elias,El Mejor Espresso,Tierra del Sol

09-14-2009, 07:08 AM	#15
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	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.

09-14-2009, 08:32 AM	#16
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09-14-2009, 09:13 AM	#17
chippewastud79 Fatter than you! Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Larry Location: A little place called home. Posts: 5,397 Trading: (44)	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Wait 24 hours until they die __________________ If we weren't supposed to eat animals, then how come they're made of meat? You can never have too many cigars, they are like an investment in good times.

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kenstogie following the whiterabbit Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Albany, NY Posts: 1,325 Trading: (3)	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! __________________ I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

09-14-2009, 11:29 AM	#20
Cyanide Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do I get rid of fruit flies? Gurkha Beast every night. That should kill all flies