It's funny how there has been no commercialized way to ACTUALLY get rid of these bastards. Tape fly traps are quite frankly disgusting and not a solution that is optimal by any means. Bug zappers don't really seem to do the trick. Bug repelling candles for outside use don't seem to work that well. Is it maybe the case that this is one of those patent blocker issues where people can't brand and market usable methods because people are literally sitting down every day submitting patents on all forms of working methods waiting to sue anyone who comes close to a feasible product? Or FDA issues that make it financially impossible to afford the amount of insurance you'd need to actually make an official product, while they do nothing to fix a food related infestation issues? I mean, if they're worried about people actually going for a full on genocide of these prick flies, they're definitely pushing all the right buttons to make me WANT to do that regardless of environmental impact because I don't care. Nature will find the new equilibrium when you add or take away a variable, the only question is how inconvenient or convenient it is to humans who have to deal with it. And pretty much anything is better than these turds unless they are somehow keeping back a hoard of AIDS infested mosquitos that we "JUST DIDN'T SEE COMING".
FRUIT FLIES ARE NOT THE SAME AS GNATS. Since you used the terms interchangeably in this video, which is it, exactly, that you're showing us how to get rid of? Is it fruit flies or gnats?
Slice of lemon in small cups woth saran wrap across top, poke holes, after several have gone in trap, pop in microwave for 30 seconds. It kills them and makes your kitchen smell lemony fresh
Microwave doesnt kill them. I used to put my food in the microwave to avoid them getting on my food. But they find a way in anyway. So i used to microwave before i opened the door but theyd fly out after microwaving them. What i found out according to a science video is theyre too small including ants to absorb the microwave. It just passes them. Apparantly
Did it with a hose from a vacuum. Sucked them suckers up SO fast. I then baking soda vinegar cleaned drains and covered all water sources including toilet lids and sink/shower holes. Sprayed out the dishwasher with vinegar then Lysol wiped surfaces and it was a one two punch and done situations and very little time besides simple wiping even in the fridge I used baking soda and vinegar then cleaned the surfaces with sanitizer and dried them well before closing up the fridge. But no kill is coolest if you can use panty hose and a vacuum or something like that to temporarily trap and release it’s a hack I’ve tried out of “sheer necessity” 😅 It can simply come down to how many lil dudes ya got due to what have you’s n such and give it your whole heart❤ Much love! Great video!
this looks good , as he mentioned getting rid of the food source is the best thing to do , that could be any thing from standing sink water , to rotten potatoes, fruit etc , empty beer/wine bottles, or jam on your counter. they don't need much food to keep multiplying. gl
The dish detergent reduces the surface tension on the liquid inside the trap and makes them sink better than just plain vinegar alone. I had them about 2 years ago.
We are battling them now thanks to 1 rotten banana.... thanks for the info.... and oh....I tried three times to squish that first fruit fly on my computer screen before realizing it was on the video.... lol....now how to get rid of those no see ums on the back porch.... didn't have them last year they just showed up here in Pace about a week ago....thank goodness we have a big outdoor wall fan over our Coleman 5 & dime hot tub on porch (thanks to you for that too, best 500 bucks we've spent in a while!
I lived in a town that had an art district. Few streets with small restaurants also and all had outside patios. Entire town was in old orange grove section of Orange county Calif. Many still had orange trees in yards but never picked the fruit. Rotten fruit on ground. So if at outside patio of restaurants we all put napkins over our red wine. One wasnt so bad and I asked what brand the traps were that I saw hung up inside and out and noted they worked so well. Waitress said oh its not the trap. We put red wine in them!
People that leave fruit in the kitchen get fruit flies and people that grow plants near a window get gnats. They are two different insects. Vinegar, soap and water works great on fruit flies for me.😃
In my experience, you want to dilute the apple cider vinegar down a bit. I still havent gotten the ratios right but 3:1 vinegar to water seems to be descent at the moment. The thing is, straight vinegar is too strong and there is a tendency to actually repel the flies rather than attract them. Thats just been my experience. Let me know if yours is different. Id honestly like to get some verification on that, because there might be something else going on here. One thing I have noticed though is that store-bought traps will have a fluid sold with them, which smells a lot like apple cider vinegar but will be a lot more watery looking; I dont know if this is a refined recipe, or if they're just getting cheap, or if there is an entirely different chemical in it. But it kind of suggests to me that Im on the right track. The store-bought stuff is way more effective though; still dont know why.
I agree, I water it down a bit and use dish soap with a fruit smell like orange. It attracts them within minutes and I put the sticky traps near or attach to the cup I use to catch them faster.
I have used this particular method as well as to get rid of fruit flies, so far I did manage to catch two fruit flies in my living room. I have made some more of it and put in the kitchen as well as the bathroom plus put one in my trash bin 🗑️.I will continue monitoring if there is any more fruit flies getting caught by this situation.
This does work very well, the problem we have also is finding the source because we keep everything put up and we even rinse out any containers or cans that go in the trash to try to remove any food or juice. But we live in an apartment building with a total of 8 and I believe some are coming through the drain pipes. I will try the idea of putting the vinegar down the drain and I think I'll also start closing the when not in use. Thanks for the video and the ideas😊
in my experience if you have gnats its because you havent looked hard enough and found the problem. been chasing gnats for a week this time and found where the kids had put a bag of potatoes in the bottom of pantry where we keep the plasgtic bags from groceries and had been there for a while. got rid of the old fruit and got rid of the gnats
This worked the first time I did this years ago, and then I think they actually got smart because they never go in anymore. 😂 I’m gonna try straight up wine and see if test works better for me.
you are right they are smart, I just saw them sitting on the margin of the bowl, some walk a little distance and walk right back. No Luck!, but will continue to try this technique
My problem is I can't find the source. All fruits and veggies go in the fridge and the garbage goes out. I'm not infested like your home but every day I see a few flying around. The traps are set. Wish me luck.
I found them in the salad inside the refrigerator . So , I cut & rinsed the lettuce and dried it off then , I put the lettuce along with paper towel inside an air tight container . I plan to do that with the cabbage and carrots . I’m already using thick plastic produce bags for all the fruits too ! I have to monitor the refrigerator to look for rotted fruits and vegetables and immediately get rid of them and keep the refrigerator as dry as possible .
A Venus won't be that effective if at all! The flies are too small! I think a pitcher plant will be better! I had a Venus and it didn't do a damn thing about the gnats, mosquitoes or fruit flies!
Funny .... this AM I watched a vid on trapping Fruit Flies, good ole YT algorithm fed me more Fruit Fly videos of course! Then I realized one was from 2 yrs ago by my favorite Florida Realtor channel!! LOL.
Once you have your hand on the wineglass with the flies inside, you could fill your sink or bathtub with water and put your hand with the glass in there, so you will be letting them go underwater instead of setting them free to breed outside.
In you video you're calling them Gnats...you are correct...not Fruit Flies. Gnats like cold...they will go into your refrigerator or freezer and die. If you have window AC units get rid of them as soon as you can and your Gnats will be gone!
There is and always will be only one way to beat a fruit fly problem. Remove the moist breeding material. They need undisturbed fermentation to multiply, find the source and clean it up once per week and they're done. Anything short of eliminating the larvae feeding material is a waste of time.
I just used a plastic water bottle, cut the top off a few millimeters past the top cone funnel part and turned it upside down on top of the rest of the bottle fill with apple cider vinegar, seems to work pretty good too.
Not necessarily. The eggs are probably on something we don't eat and don't even realize are there until after they've hatched and spread wings. Joe Biden wrote a paper on fruit flies at West Point just before he invaded Poland.
I had a really bad infestation in my place, but I beat it with traps like these. I used yoghurt cups, so I didn't have anything to clean after. I would put plastic foil over, then fasten it with 2 (!) rubber bands, and then poke holes with a match since that seems to create the perfect size and shape of a hole. I have not tried using vinegar and dish soap, but it's probably the better way to go about it. My traps kept them alive, and... you don't want that. I put banana peels in there. It lured in 50-80 within days, but after 5-7 days, larvae would hatch in there. They are nasty as hell and they can creep back out through the hole or squeeze past the rubber band (but not through 2).
I’ve been using this method for a couple of weeks and I catch plenty of them in the traps BUT more keep coming. I see no decrease at all. I have no fruit or any food sitting around, I wash every dish as soon as I use it, and trash gets emptied several times a day. Very frustrating and NOT as easy as you make it seem!
There will be a source somewhere if they're still coming even after traps are set and no trash in the house. They can be very difficult to get rid of especially if you've been overrun with them.. but they won't stick around for nothing and new ones won't appear for no reason. Fruit flys are all about smell and they go with what attracts them. It could be that you have removed all possible sources and its the apple cider vinegar in the traps which are now attracting new ones? Maybe after you next empty the traps...don't set any new ones, make sure everywhere is clean, trash out etc... give it a day and see if they are still coming.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS finally someone with the same problem as me lol. Dude I had hundreds last summer and just like you I have ZERO sources that I can pinpoint. At one point I had cleaned my entire apartment head to toe and kept it that way for a week or two and still hundreds spawning in. The thing is, I read everywhere that they require soft gooey stuff to lay eggs in and that material literally doesn't exist in my place. If it gets as bad this summer as it did last summer, I'll prob just move units. Oh yeah and the apple cider vinegar basically had no effect, like it only killed a dozen at a time. I will say that the sticky tape that you hang from ceilings had a massive effect, not that it mattered much since they still came in droves but yeah. When winter comes here in MN it gets rid of them, but past couple days I've seen a couple and I'm just flabbergasted at the persistency of these damn things.
@@kevinarriaza1951 And here is Texas, we havent had a bad winter in a couple of years, so these things are just relentless. It's a major problem here in North Texas.
I still always sneak up on source or the bait bag I set out and torch them make sure they don't come back and that they close relatives that might orbiting nearby have no means of resuscitating them whatsoever
I personally try to spraying them with Raid, I get a you miss me. I see them in front of the T.V./ they mess with me when I'm trying to sleep, If I set aclean plate out here they come, so I am trying what you suggested with hotel 🏨 plastic cups 🥤 that comes with plastic, I have no liquid apple cider, but I am using apple cider pills that has expired. I hope it works, and I have one mosquito 🦟 in this house 🏠 I hope it catches all of them 3 fruit flies, I have the smell good trash 🗑 bag's with no trash in the house/ fruits are bag up.
If you set a trap of any sorts (they seem to absolutely love pumpkin spiced beers as I found out) you can also instantly eliminate them as they rush w.e it is you have set up, and if you happen to have a larger handheld butane torch... such as the ones used in kitcnens and bars, you can slowly get up close to the savages while they are going for the bait and roast them rather easily and very quickly. Even if a few escape and try to fly away.. as they are no where near as elusive as a stand house fly... you can use the same torch and hit them mid air rather easily lol makes for an interesting game of one way tag haha
Torch them for real. I do the same for many insects I go to warehouse with. Roaches, spiders, fruitflies, house flies
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Listen, this gnat problem is really working my nerves. I've used smoke... But never a flame 🔥.... This will be the perfect amount of fun and danger. 😂😂😂
Thank you, I'm going to try this. I've been spraying the inside of my trashcan with my horse's fly spray and I notice they especially love to invade my wine glass in the evening. I have a wine glass sippy cup I've resorted to just to keep them out when I am not drinking from it. This is an annual problem and they have typically hung out from August through till October. It's hell. I'm going to try making traps. Do you think traps would be even more effective with red wine instead of vinegar?
Put some juicy fruit like a lemon on a baking sheet in the oven with the door open. When you see a bunch of them....slam the door shut and turn on the oven. Repeat as needed.
For fleas, fill a pie pan half full of water and add about a half tspn of dishwashing liquid...stir gently to mix it. Set the pan on the floor in an out of the way spot and put a high intensity reading lamp about 9-12" above it. Fleas will come to the heat source (lamp) and jump into the pie pan and drown. Stay safe!
I just moved to the south from the northwest and it’s a bigger problem out here. Back home I could just get rid of anything sweet and fermenting and they would be gone in a short amount of time. Not here.
use mosquito repellent ( good night liquid) it works like a magic , we have tried everything and got tired of this little monsters and we thought lets try repellent and it killed all the flies within an hour.
Are these the same gnat things that are coming out of my window ac unit? Every year I get them crawling out of it & no matter how many times I clean it they're still there.
Wow... over a year and no response. I also want an answer to this question... off to Google I go ☝. If I had to guess I'd say standard or malt vinegar is too strong and maybe repels them so diluting with water might work?
@@andysmith5464 They like Fermented anything. Wine,beer, cider vinegar. try adding a piece of banana peel💥 or some sugar, honey,or maple syrup to the vinegar. Or any rotting fruit. 🤞🏼❤
My fruit fly problem has been going on for 1 week, in basement, kitchen, garbage can, bathroom. I've used ACV traps and can't get rid of them. Same amount everyday. I cleaned my garbage can, new bag and still not better. I put all food in fridge, cleaned counters. Found a possible source (opened 7up can from 2 months ago filled with pop and emptied it.) Still just as bad. I have used a fruit in a jar as well. Catches the flies but not enough. What am I forgetting or not doing a thorough job with?
If you have a really bad infestation, you can add another element. Place your vinegar trap, let it sit for a while until they all find it, then pop up and spray them with alcohol and watch the whole colony drop out of the air. Cleanup is a little messy.
Those are fungus gnats. They nest in plant potting soil. They are black in color with long legs. They are attracted to the color yellow, carbon dioxide, and light. They like moist warm places to nest. A possible trap for them is a jar or wine glass filled with water, sugar and yeast. The container should be topped with a yellow funnel. When watering the plant reduce the amount of water to the plant and mix an insect growth regulator into the water before watering the plant.
LMAO, Ihave them now, they breed like bunnies! I have the traps and the also love soap bubbles, i think the bubbles may go faster as they fly into it or try to land an fall. I get down to thst 1 ir 2 and 5 days later they're back. Driving me insane
Between having guinea pigs, treats, hamsters, ferrets, and a cat... suddenly I got a huge infestation! Worst thing about these nasty creeps is that they leave spots all over the walls of you have a larder number of them
I have a lot of gnats at least I think that is what they are flying around in every room in my house. I do not have fruit in my house I do not leave food out so I do not know where they're coming from or how to get rid of them are even if they are gnats they're just little bitty black a bunch of bugs flying around but they're in every room in my house please help
The gnats in my home just gather inside my trash i throw my trash out all the time and i wait until i kill the ones lingering around before i put a new bag in and then when i do they come out of nowhere once again and it's so many God i hate them
hi I've been using the vinegar trap for a while now and my house is still full of them especially in my kitchen. I've cleaned my kitchen and all my work surface's and i'm still getting them. I don't have any fruit or veg lying about. Don't know what else to try. any suggestions for what else i can try?
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It's funny how there has been no commercialized way to ACTUALLY get rid of these bastards. Tape fly traps are quite frankly disgusting and not a solution that is optimal by any means. Bug zappers don't really seem to do the trick. Bug repelling candles for outside use don't seem to work that well. Is it maybe the case that this is one of those patent blocker issues where people can't brand and market usable methods because people are literally sitting down every day submitting patents on all forms of working methods waiting to sue anyone who comes close to a feasible product? Or FDA issues that make it financially impossible to afford the amount of insurance you'd need to actually make an official product, while they do nothing to fix a food related infestation issues? I mean, if they're worried about people actually going for a full on genocide of these prick flies, they're definitely pushing all the right buttons to make me WANT to do that regardless of environmental impact because I don't care. Nature will find the new equilibrium when you add or take away a variable, the only question is how inconvenient or convenient it is to humans who have to deal with it. And pretty much anything is better than these turds unless they are somehow keeping back a hoard of AIDS infested mosquitos that we "JUST DIDN'T SEE COMING".
FRUIT FLIES ARE NOT THE SAME AS GNATS. Since you used the terms interchangeably in this video, which is it, exactly, that you're showing us how to get rid of? Is it fruit flies or gnats?
Slice of lemon in small cups woth saran wrap across top, poke holes, after several have gone in trap, pop in microwave for 30 seconds. It kills them and makes your kitchen smell lemony fresh
Ha ha...........this is too funny.
Microwave doesnt kill them. I used to put my food in the microwave to avoid them getting on my food. But they find a way in anyway. So i used to microwave before i opened the door but theyd fly out after microwaving them. What i found out according to a science video is theyre too small including ants to absorb the microwave. It just passes them. Apparantly
Lol... I like it
You put flies in microwave? That's disgusting!
I would not put that in my micro wave!
Did it with a hose from a vacuum. Sucked them suckers up SO fast. I then baking soda vinegar cleaned drains and covered all water sources including toilet lids and sink/shower holes. Sprayed out the dishwasher with vinegar then Lysol wiped surfaces and it was a one two punch and done situations and very little time besides simple wiping even in the fridge I used baking soda and vinegar then cleaned the surfaces with sanitizer and dried them well before closing up the fridge. But no kill is coolest if you can use panty hose and a vacuum or something like that to temporarily trap and release it’s a hack I’ve tried out of “sheer necessity” 😅
It can simply come down to how many lil dudes ya got due to what have you’s n such and give it your whole heart❤
Much love! Great video!
Lord bless you for the vacuum idea
You're a life saviour. That's an awesome idea. Thanks luv!!
When I’m off Thursday I’ll do it
this looks good , as he mentioned getting rid of the food source is the best thing to do , that could be any thing from standing sink water , to rotten potatoes, fruit etc , empty beer/wine bottles, or jam on your counter. they don't need much food to keep multiplying. gl
The dish detergent reduces the surface tension on the liquid inside the trap and makes them sink better than just plain vinegar alone. I had them about 2 years ago.
I got one of those electronic zap machine with a vacuum and it can literally kill 500 fruit flies per second. It only cost me $140.
After I put dish soap in it looks like they don't like it as much as before
We are battling them now thanks to 1 rotten banana.... thanks for the info.... and oh....I tried three times to squish that first fruit fly on my computer screen before realizing it was on the video.... lol....now how to get rid of those no see ums on the back porch.... didn't have them last year they just showed up here in Pace about a week ago....thank goodness we have a big outdoor wall fan over our Coleman 5 & dime hot tub on porch (thanks to you for that too, best 500 bucks we've spent in a while!
Thank Mr. Going to try the baking pan. Putting a sign up
Saying there's a party tonight. Bring all you fruitflys friends.
I lived in a town that had an art district. Few streets with small restaurants also and all had outside patios. Entire town was in old orange grove section of Orange county Calif. Many still had orange trees in yards but never picked the fruit. Rotten fruit on ground. So if at outside patio of restaurants we all put napkins over our red wine. One wasnt so bad and I asked what brand the traps were that I saw hung up inside and out and noted they worked so well. Waitress said oh its not the trap. We put red wine in them!
People that leave fruit in the kitchen get fruit flies and people that grow plants near a window get gnats. They are two different insects. Vinegar, soap and water works great on fruit flies for me.😃
You spray them with this ?
I live in Florida and I know all this but every year I come back and watch videos on how to trap themselves
I put flashlight at the bottom of the trap it attracts flies even better.
In my experience, you want to dilute the apple cider vinegar down a bit. I still havent gotten the ratios right but 3:1 vinegar to water seems to be descent at the moment. The thing is, straight vinegar is too strong and there is a tendency to actually repel the flies rather than attract them. Thats just been my experience. Let me know if yours is different. Id honestly like to get some verification on that, because there might be something else going on here.
One thing I have noticed though is that store-bought traps will have a fluid sold with them, which smells a lot like apple cider vinegar but will be a lot more watery looking; I dont know if this is a refined recipe, or if they're just getting cheap, or if there is an entirely different chemical in it. But it kind of suggests to me that Im on the right track. The store-bought stuff is way more effective though; still dont know why.
I agree, I water it down a bit and use dish soap with a fruit smell like orange. It attracts them within minutes and I put the sticky traps near or attach to the cup I use to catch them faster.
I bought 2 different fly traps and they didn't work I believe I got them from the grocery
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I have used this particular method as well as to get rid of fruit flies, so far I did manage to catch two fruit flies in my living room. I have made some more of it and put in the kitchen as well as the bathroom plus put one in my trash bin 🗑️.I will continue monitoring if there is any more fruit flies getting caught by this situation.
I've listened to a few and this is the best advice so far . Thanks
This does work very well, the problem we have also is finding the source because we keep everything put up and we even rinse out any containers or cans that go in the trash to try to remove any food or juice. But we live in an apartment building with a total of 8 and I believe some are coming through the drain pipes. I will try the idea of putting the vinegar down the drain and I think I'll also start closing the when not in use. Thanks for the video and the ideas😊
My current issue. It is in fact the garbage disposal and shower drains
I grow mushrooms and these are like the kryptonite of this hobby
in my experience if you have gnats its because you havent looked hard enough and found the problem. been chasing gnats for a week this time and found where the kids had put a bag of potatoes in the bottom of pantry where we keep the plasgtic bags from groceries and had been there for a while. got rid of the old fruit and got rid of the gnats
Looks like wine is the best bait! Have you considered putting saran wrap over the a glass or cup with wine rather than vinegar?
This worked the first time I did this years ago, and then I think they actually got smart because they never go in anymore. 😂 I’m gonna try straight up wine and see if test works better for me.
you are right they are smart, I just saw them sitting on the margin of the bowl, some walk a little distance and walk right back. No Luck!, but will continue to try this technique
Wine with dish soap works good too!!
My problem is I can't find the source. All fruits and veggies go in the fridge and the garbage goes out. I'm not infested like your home but every day I see a few flying around. The traps are set. Wish me luck.
Works every time. Unlike house flies fruit flies are much easier to trap.
I found them in the salad inside the refrigerator . So , I cut & rinsed the lettuce and dried it off then , I put the lettuce along with paper towel inside an air tight container . I plan to do that with the cabbage and carrots . I’m already using thick plastic produce bags for all the fruits too !
I have to monitor the refrigerator to look for rotted fruits and vegetables and immediately get rid of them and keep the refrigerator as dry as possible .
I read drains and smelly wet rags will also attract fruit flys.
Could be in your drain pour bleach down it
Just banana peel in grocery bag somewhere in kitchen then walk up on it close it toss it! We always est bananas!
I recently bought a venus fly trap. Hopefully it grows up a bit before the summer when the flies come.
A Venus won't be that effective if at all! The flies are too small! I think a pitcher plant will be better! I had a Venus and it didn't do a damn thing about the gnats, mosquitoes or fruit flies!
Great tip! worked for me! thank you :)
Usually I just kill them from the air when it's just a few of them but when it's more than 10 it's time to get your tips!! Thanks
Funny .... this AM I watched a vid on trapping Fruit Flies, good ole YT algorithm fed me more Fruit Fly videos of course! Then I realized one was from 2 yrs ago by my favorite Florida Realtor channel!! LOL.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I have recently declared war on the fruit flies in my house.
Once you have your hand on the wineglass with the flies inside, you could fill your sink or bathtub with water and put your hand with the glass in there, so you will be letting them go underwater instead of setting them free to breed outside.
Yes exactly. I thought what the hell? He takes them outside, just for them to end up back in teh house?
😂😂😂 Exactly I'm like did he just add this in as a joke to stir up sum. Ppl.😂😂😂
That seems kinda cruel to drown them like that.
@@trhansen3244keep em around as pets if you want....
THANK YOU for this video. Because of it I was able to find the source of them and now I can get rid of them.
What was the source
In you video you're calling them Gnats...you are correct...not Fruit Flies. Gnats like cold...they will go into your refrigerator or freezer and die. If you have window AC units get rid of them as soon as you can and your Gnats will be gone!
Tried this method 3x with different glass covers with dozens of fruit flies in 1 room.... each day = 0 trapped. Have yet to catch a single one yet
There is and always will be only one way to beat a fruit fly problem. Remove the moist breeding material. They need undisturbed fermentation to multiply, find the source and clean it up once per week and they're done. Anything short of eliminating the larvae feeding material is a waste of time.
I think he addressed that, but is showing you how to get rid of the ones that are still here.
You are like lord of the flies
I just used a plastic water bottle, cut the top off a few millimeters past the top cone funnel part and turned it upside down on top of the rest of the bottle fill with apple cider vinegar, seems to work pretty good too.
Great fruit flies removrl video
If fruit flies come in with fruit, doesn't that mean we're eating them?
Not necessarily. The eggs are probably on something we don't eat and don't even realize are there until after they've hatched and spread wings. Joe Biden wrote a paper on fruit flies at West Point just before he invaded Poland.
Yes, the government now encourages us to eat bugs.
Thank u!!! You explain it very well
I had a really bad infestation in my place, but I beat it with traps like these. I used yoghurt cups, so I didn't have anything to clean after. I would put plastic foil over, then fasten it with 2 (!) rubber bands, and then poke holes with a match since that seems to create the perfect size and shape of a hole.
I have not tried using vinegar and dish soap, but it's probably the better way to go about it. My traps kept them alive, and... you don't want that. I put banana peels in there. It lured in 50-80 within days, but after 5-7 days, larvae would hatch in there. They are nasty as hell and they can creep back out through the hole or squeeze past the rubber band (but not through 2).
A little dish detergent with water in a white plastic bowl, that's it.
Spray drains with Raid Ant and Roach killer
I’ve been using this method for a couple of weeks and I catch plenty of them in the traps BUT more keep coming. I see no decrease at all. I have no fruit or any food sitting around, I wash every dish as soon as I use it, and trash gets emptied several times a day. Very frustrating and NOT as easy as you make it seem!
There will be a source somewhere if they're still coming even after traps are set and no trash in the house. They can be very difficult to get rid of especially if you've been overrun with them.. but they won't stick around for nothing and new ones won't appear for no reason. Fruit flys are all about smell and they go with what attracts them. It could be that you have removed all possible sources and its the apple cider vinegar in the traps which are now attracting new ones? Maybe after you next empty the traps...don't set any new ones, make sure everywhere is clean, trash out etc... give it a day and see if they are still coming.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS finally someone with the same problem as me lol. Dude I had hundreds last summer and just like you I have ZERO sources that I can pinpoint. At one point I had cleaned my entire apartment head to toe and kept it that way for a week or two and still hundreds spawning in. The thing is, I read everywhere that they require soft gooey stuff to lay eggs in and that material literally doesn't exist in my place. If it gets as bad this summer as it did last summer, I'll prob just move units. Oh yeah and the apple cider vinegar basically had no effect, like it only killed a dozen at a time. I will say that the sticky tape that you hang from ceilings had a massive effect, not that it mattered much since they still came in droves but yeah. When winter comes here in MN it gets rid of them, but past couple days I've seen a couple and I'm just flabbergasted at the persistency of these damn things.
@@stevenalderley9036try pouring bleach , then hot water down your drains
@@kevinarriaza1951 And here is Texas, we havent had a bad winter in a couple of years, so these things are just relentless. It's a major problem here in North Texas.
I still always sneak up on source or the bait bag I set out and torch them make sure they don't come back and that they close relatives that might orbiting nearby have no means of resuscitating them whatsoever
Crazy that they even go after used tea bags
Do i mix the vinegar and the soap or do i just pour it in the cup
I've had more fruitflies this Fall than ever before. They are even dying in the refrigerator!
I personally try to spraying them with Raid, I get a you miss me. I see them in front of the T.V./ they mess with me when I'm trying to sleep, If I set aclean plate out here they come, so I am trying what you suggested with hotel 🏨 plastic cups 🥤 that comes with plastic, I have no liquid apple cider, but I am using apple cider pills that has expired. I hope it works, and I have one mosquito 🦟 in this house 🏠 I hope it catches all of them 3 fruit flies, I have the smell good trash 🗑 bag's with no trash in the house/ fruits are bag up.
Thx. Great vid.
Wow, the trap even stripped out the apostrophe from the "I'll" in the title!
Do they have nutritional value? Do you know their glycemic score?
How long does it take to notice them gone
If you set a trap of any sorts (they seem to absolutely love pumpkin spiced beers as I found out) you can also instantly eliminate them as they rush w.e it is you have set up, and if you happen to have a larger handheld butane torch... such as the ones used in kitcnens and bars, you can slowly get up close to the savages while they are going for the bait and roast them rather easily and very quickly. Even if a few escape and try to fly away.. as they are no where near as elusive as a stand house fly... you can use the same torch and hit them mid air rather easily lol makes for an interesting game of one way tag haha
Dude is out here chasing fruit flys with a flame thrower!
@@williestarke 😂😂😂😂😂
@@williestarke LMAO. Get some!! Take no prisoners !!
Torch them for real. I do the same for many insects I go to warehouse with. Roaches, spiders, fruitflies, house flies
Listen, this gnat problem is really working my nerves. I've used smoke... But never a flame 🔥.... This will be the perfect amount of fun and danger. 😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing ireally appreciate and it will really help me becoz ihave this is issue of flies in the house and are two money
Thank you, I'm going to try this. I've been spraying the inside of my trashcan with my horse's fly spray and I notice they especially love to invade my wine glass in the evening. I have a wine glass sippy cup I've resorted to just to keep them out when I am not drinking from it. This is an annual problem and they have typically hung out from August through till October. It's hell. I'm going to try making traps. Do you think traps would be even more effective with red wine instead of vinegar?
Someone on another video said red wine can be effective as well
Use red wine vinegar 😆
It works better.
Try zevo from Walmart
Put some juicy fruit like a lemon on a baking sheet in the oven with the door open. When you see a bunch of them....slam the door shut and turn on the oven. Repeat as needed.
I am not using that oven again. 😂😂
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Thanks for the info!
I don't have fruit flies, but I've been at WAR with fleas since October
For fleas, fill a pie pan half full of water and add about a half tspn of dishwashing liquid...stir gently to mix it. Set the pan on the floor in an out of the way spot and put a high intensity reading lamp about 9-12" above it. Fleas will come to the heat source (lamp) and jump into the pie pan and drown. Stay safe!
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You never put dish soap in the trap you made?????? Did it work???
I just moved to the south from the northwest and it’s a bigger problem out here. Back home I could just get rid of anything sweet and fermenting and they would be gone in a short amount of time. Not here.
Or you can put a few slices of bannana in a jar and add a paper funnel into the jar for a live trap. I like to feed them to my frogs.
Thank you. 🇨🇦
use mosquito repellent ( good night liquid) it works like a magic , we have tried everything and got tired of this little monsters and we thought lets try repellent and it killed all the flies within an hour.
Ive tried a similar method in the past and while the traps worked, it seemed as if the infestation grew. Did i do something wrong?
Recipe for fruit fly pie
If you collect them together after catching them they make a very nice Broth .
What wine would you recommend? LOL
Are these the same gnat things that are coming out of my window ac unit? Every year I get them crawling out of it & no matter how many times I clean it they're still there.
And in their last few minutes of life, they go out happy and drunk on their asses!
I don't have apple cider vinegar, will vinegar do the trick also??feedback please & thank you!
Wow... over a year and no response. I also want an answer to this question... off to Google I go ☝. If I had to guess I'd say standard or malt vinegar is too strong and maybe repels them so diluting with water might work?
@@andysmith5464
They like Fermented anything. Wine,beer, cider vinegar.
try adding a piece of banana peel💥 or some sugar, honey,or maple syrup to the vinegar. Or any rotting fruit. 🤞🏼❤
I have the exact same problem with my friends, they all flock to the wine
My fruit fly problem has been going on for 1 week, in basement, kitchen, garbage can, bathroom. I've used ACV traps and can't get rid of them. Same amount everyday. I cleaned my garbage can, new bag and still not better. I put all food in fridge, cleaned counters. Found a possible source (opened 7up can from 2 months ago filled with pop and emptied it.) Still just as bad. I have used a fruit in a jar as well. Catches the flies but not enough. What am I forgetting or not doing a thorough job with?
Buy some raid fly sticks
Same for me. They just keep multiplying
@@bonnie_nelmslike gremlins 😂😂😂
I go crazy because of them too!!! Nothing helps. 😈
I didn't have any other way to contact you. We are big fans and miss you. Is everything ok?
The best and Happy Holidays to you and family
If wine works so good, why not use that instead of apple cider vinegar?
If you have a really bad infestation, you can add another element. Place your vinegar trap, let it sit for a while until they all find it, then pop up and spray them with alcohol and watch the whole colony drop out of the air. Cleanup is a little messy.
Very militaristic...I love it!!!🤗😂
I’m having a terrible infestation rn I’m going to get some wine
Just found the source. A bag of potatoes in my potato bin . Good lord!!!
How they breed is in when you water your plants in the soil of your plants they breed
talking about traps begins at 3:00
Thank you
thought i had lice while i slept til i figured out it was those things disrupting my sleep.
I can’t find the source of them either. The only thing I have around are plants- not fruit plants- I have evergreen plants
My bugs aren't exiting my house alive.. they come in, they signed an agreement to perish...
They dont bite you? Where do you live???
I'm struggling ... they are crawling over the saran wrap ... I see them go all the way into a hole and then come back out. What am I doing wrong?
Eugene hates fruit flys !
They don't work in Britain our flies are too clever 😂
Use something you can throw out, and wash down the entire kitchen once they gone, fruit flies can carry lesteria, colera, salmonella and so on.
5:40 This joker is just catching the same fifty flies over and over again. Release them out on your porch.
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My source was a pot of soil I had sitting in the kitchen🙄
Those are fungus gnats. They nest in plant potting soil. They are black in color with long legs. They are attracted to the color yellow, carbon dioxide, and light. They like moist warm places to nest. A possible trap for them is a jar or wine glass filled with water, sugar and yeast. The container should be topped with a yellow funnel. When watering the plant reduce the amount of water to the plant and mix an insect growth regulator into the water before watering the plant.
Thanks from BC Canada
why didnt this work for me? One time i made a trap and caught 30+ but then next time i did it the exact same way and got like 2-3
May be they watch video on TH-cam
LMAO, Ihave them now, they breed like bunnies! I have the traps and the also love soap bubbles, i think the bubbles may go faster as they fly into it or try to land an fall. I get down to thst 1 ir 2 and 5 days later they're back. Driving me insane
Tomatoe work in the vinegar?
We came home from vacation and had a ton of fruit flies. I made the acv traps and actually vacuumed a lot of them!
Between having guinea pigs, treats, hamsters, ferrets, and a cat...
suddenly I got a huge infestation! Worst thing about these nasty creeps is that they leave spots all over the walls of you have a larder number of them
That should say rats not treats
They love my ferret cage too lol
Welp, in the 8 mins of chatting the fruit flies multiplied 800 times and tookover my apartment.
Good tip Mississippi !
I have a lot of gnats at least I think that is what they are flying around in every room in my house. I do not have fruit in my house I do not leave food out so I do not know where they're coming from or how to get rid of them are even if they are gnats they're just little bitty black a bunch of bugs flying around but they're in every room in my house please help
Buy a few bug zappers
This really made me laugh
The gnats in my home just gather inside my trash i throw my trash out all the time and i wait until i kill the ones lingering around before i put a new bag in and then when i do they come out of nowhere once again and it's so many God i hate them
hi I've been using the vinegar trap for a while now and my house is still full of them especially in my kitchen. I've cleaned my kitchen and all my work surface's and i'm still getting them. I don't have any fruit or veg lying about. Don't know what else to try. any suggestions for what else i can try?
Be awesome if that worked for yellow flies 😎
Which country you are from? I am from India and thinking that only we are blessed with bugs and flies, fruit flies etc😂
Thank you !