FRUIT FLIES FRUIT FLIES FRUIT FLIES!!!!!! I HATE FRUIT FLIES! I HATE THEM!! Every summer, I try so so hard to keep my house clean and all food scraps contained. Garbage emptied often. AND YET today, I noticed a fruit fly. Now laying down and one lands on my hand. GROSS. Damn it! At least it’s not like my ex’s old kitchen cabinet… a chinese food container and the entire walls and bottom of the cupboard covered in some kind of fruit fly graveyard. There were hundreds in there. Like every year they get me somehow. DAMN YOUUUUUU FRUIT FLLIIIIIIIESSSSSSSSS!! —Invaded Wons
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2011.
I discovered that fruit flies were attracted to the liquid dish detergent that was on the window sill above the sink……..nothing to do with fruit
They are coming from your sink drain, make sure you use hot water to rinse and pour a little vinegar down there and keep it covered. Should lessen the assault of those miserable bastards.
You think you have it tough, you speciescentric bastard!
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lol @ speciescentric bastard.
I hate them too OP.
sounds like you are living in the same building a friend of mine is living in. His apartment has both mice and fruit flies galore.
We hate them too , Tommy. I put out a dish filled with vinegar covered with saranwrap with holes poked in it and found 8 of the little bastards synchronized swimming their way to HELL this morning.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!
OP, something is attracting them. Check your plants. Poison the fuckers with dioxin……you won’t find it in “big box stores.”
if you can’t beat em… join em.
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That’s what happens when you get rid of effective pesticides for useless “green” ones.
Vinegar is effective, Bro. The difficult part is forcing the little bastards’ mandibles open and pouring enough down their throats to kill them.
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If you compost, keep the compost pail outside. Keep your fruit and veggies in the fridge except for bananas and eat those as fast as possible.
The wine vinegar in a dish covered with saran wrap with holes poked in it works very effectively as Ivan pointed out. But the suckers breed like flies (funny about that) and keeping up with them is near impossible. Just make sure all banana peels and apple cores are outside because it doesn’t take much for them to get a foothold.
1 paper cup + small piece of fruit or vinegar or aardvark shit + plastic wrap to cover top + rubber band to secure + toothpick for punching tiny holes when that’s done = FUCKYOUFRUITFLIEEEESSSSSS!!! YOUCANGETINMOTHERFUCKERSBUTYOU’LLNEVERGETOUT!!!!!
You can use an open container with the vinegar. Simply put a drop of dish detergent in with the vinegar to break the surface tension. SURPRISE FRUIT FLY, you’re gonna drown.
Fruit flies are gross, but I can deal with them. What I can’t deal with are wasps. I’ve had a severe phobia of them ever since stepping in a nest barefoot back when I was a kid; I’ll never forget clusters of them stinging me on the legs and feet. anyway, I probably should’ve had therapy because now my panicked flailings and screams have made my toddler afraid of any flying bug. I’m ashamed of that! I’m 35 and still have no control over my response to an aggressive wasp chasing me down the road. It was one thing before I became a mother, but now I have to deal with it!
The electric fly swatters will take a wasp out of the air long enough to stomp it into the ground.
another way to do it, is deliberately spill some pop on the table and sit by it with a towel. You can have alot of fun killing them 1 at a time while reading a good pocket book.
pay sebastard to lead them all out of town. he is their lord and master.
no shit.. my house is immaculate. There is no food outside the fridge. I have invited four spinner spiders and three ambush spiders into the house, all of whom are working overtime. And they’re THRIVING.
Fruit flies are ninjas.
Try a little beer. They LOVE beer. Put it in a glass where the flies tend to congregate. They may be ninjas but they’re dumb. They drown. Within 5 minutes, you will have drowned about 200 flies.
I had a friend whose mom would set a fruit trap -such as a strawberry- in the microwave and they’ll just go in after it and you can just slam the door and turn it on haha problem solved.
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“time flies like an arrow—fruit flies like a banana” Groucho Marx
Fruit flies are brought into your house when you bring fruit in. Their eggs are already on the fruit, then the eggs hatch! I too, have a thing about fruit flies and rinse produce in either water with 1 cap (NB: cap, not cup) bleach or equal amount white vinegar or lemon juice (apples, bananas, grapes, tomatoes get bleach; lettuce, strawberries get vinegar) as soon as I bring it home.
A couple of years ago, I got a bad outbreak from the cardboard container that came with some farm stand raspberries. Oh, it was bad! overnight I had dozens buzzing around. I did the trap with a saran-covered funnel in a wine bottle, which worked, but not before the little buggers bred the next generation. I got immense satisfaction and good results when I left a banana in the open oven overnight. the next morning, I snuck up, shut the door and turned the oven up to 500˚. Very satisfying.
A little fruitfly “final solution”. Interesting. From the Big German Book of Household Pest Control. Next week, Cockroaches. Are they really indestructible? Guest entomologist Dr. Mengele will discuss.