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Home » Recipes » How to Kill Fruit Flies with 3 easy household ingredients!

How to Kill Fruit Flies with 3 easy household ingredients!

by trisha haas

Yesterday I gave my son a bowl of fruit. After he had had his fill, he set the bowl down like most kids do and ran off. Not too long after that I went to pick it up and noticed little gnats on the fruit! I was shocked. Where did these things come from? I can only imagine they must have hitched a ride in the carton of strawberries but had instantly been attracted back to the open fruit. I can assure you I keep a clean house. The whole thing was disgusting.

My babysitter was over and she said she had been told that equal parts water, equal parts vinegar and a squirt of dish soap would kill fruit flies.

What the heck, so I tried it.

This is about 10 minutes after I put the bowl down in the same area as the old fruit bowl.

Then I moved it to the kitchen and after a few hours, this is what happened:
 

For some reason the flies are attracted to the water and then eventually land and get stuck there. Its safe since its made from household items rather than pesticides. I am just going to leave the bowl on the window sill a few days to finish any extras off.

I hope this tip helps out your kitchen and thank you to my babysitter for this one!

~Trisha

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Marianne says

    February 17, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    I don’t need to kill them because they don’t go on our fruits anymore. Why ? Because we put 2 or 3 wine corks in the fruit basket. I don’t why or how it works but even when summer guets really hot we had no more fruit flyes since we do this.

  2. Julie says

    December 8, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    White Vinegar or Apple Cider?

  3. Nolie says

    April 25, 2013 at 9:00 am

    Trisha…. I love you. EVERY year we get these stupid things and could never figure out how to get rid of them.

  4. Brandy says

    April 24, 2013 at 3:49 pm

    That is awesome. I had to share!

  5. Ned says

    April 24, 2013 at 11:54 am

    what an excellent tip! I can’t think of a person who wouldn’t benefit from knowing this.. I hate those little flies that appear from nowhere on my bananas..

  6. Kathleen says

    April 22, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    Genius! I will definitely be giving this a try this summer when we are camping. Don’t want them buzzing around our food!

  7. Jen-Eighty MPH Mom says

    April 20, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    Awesome idea! Did I ever tell you about the time my house was infested with these fruit flies and I couldn’t figure out where they were coming from? Yeah, well my son had been with his grandma and she sent him home with a banana in a plastic grocery bag. He stuck it in his room and forgot about it. GAG. I thought I would go nuts trying to get rid of them!

  8. Robin Gagnon {Mom Foodie} says

    April 19, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    Last year I had a terrible fruit fly problem… later found out it was due to an apple my daughter had “hidden”. I used containers with watered down wine & fruit juice covered with plastic wrap with holes poked in it to make traps. It worked, but I like this idea better… next time I’ll try it.

    • Janice says

      August 26, 2013 at 12:51 am

      do they ever go away and they bite me..I caught atleast 100 of them andit was from a potato …

  9. Valerie C. says

    April 19, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    I’m going to try this. Thanks!

  10. Nichol says

    April 19, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    I had an awful time with fruit flies last year, not sure why. I sure hope I don’t have to deal with it again this year, but I did use something similar to this that didn’t work too well. I’ll definitely try this if those buggers come back.

    • Janice says

      August 26, 2013 at 12:52 am

      does the cold kill them to when winter comes

  11. SCM (SocialCafe Magazine) says

    April 19, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    We do this all the time too, it’s the acidic smell that attracts them like most fruits have especially when ripe =)

  12. Lucero says

    April 19, 2013 at 8:57 am

    OMG does this ever work. The past couple of years I’ve been doing this and I’ve had the best success with this method.

  13. Heather M says

    April 19, 2013 at 8:56 am

    We tend to get a lot of fruit flies every year and I do this and it works miracles!

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