How to Get Rid Of Fruit Flies

Every summer, I pretty much keep stocked up on fruit, as I can’t get enough of the berries and peaches. Mind you, I keep fruits all year round – bananas, apples, mangoes and anything remotely in season. However, this year, with the Texas heat getting up to 107, I noticed that my love of fruit and keeping it readily available in the fruit bowl on the counter was causing a problem with fruit flies. Apparently, I am not the only one in the house now who wants to enjoy eating those bananas…

I tried cleaning extra hard, sprays and all sorts of things, but those flies just would not go away. They managed to linger around the fruit, and even when I put all of that in the fridge, they congregated around the drain in the sink at night. Something simply had to be done, but what? After researching a few options, I was skeptical but thrilled to learn you could make a fruit fly trap out of really basic supplies I already had on hand. With just a mason jar or small bowl, some cling wrap and vinegar, I was able to successfully trap and eliminate all of those pesky fruit flies.

Let me show you how easy it is to make a fruit fly trap for your kitchen.

How to Get Rid Of Fruit Flies:

Supplies Needed:

• Jar or small bowl
• Apple cider vinegar (but other types work, too)
• Toothpick
• Cling Wrap

[social_warfare buttons=”facebook, pinterest, twitter, whatsapp, email”]This solution for getting rid of a fruit fly problem is so easy and quick to make – I actually made my first one at 1AM when I went downstairs to grab some water and just could no longer stand to see the awful bugs having a party around my sink. I made my homemade fruit fly trap in less than 5 minutes and woke up to find most of my uninvited guests at the bottom of the jar. Was I ever happy! Determined to make sure they were all gone, I whipped up another trap and had all of those little bugs swimming at the bottom of a lake of vinegar within 24 hours. Fruit fly problem, gone!

I love that this solution involved no chemicals or harsh pesticides, and it is super effective. Also, if you live somewhere it is hot and need to keep a trap out all of the time, the little mason jar version is acceptable enough to leave out on the counter. You might not ever have to share another banana or peach with those pesky little fruit flies.

[social_warfare buttons=”facebook, pinterest, twitter, whatsapp, email”]Before you get out the bug spray, try this easy idea I bet you already have the supplies for.

This trap works by enticing those fruit flies to one of their favorite sweet smells – vinegar. They crawl in through the little holes you make in the Saran Wrap, but then can’t get back out. Eventually, they drown in the vinegar and you can just dump it out.

Whether the flies are a problem around your fruit bowl, the drain in the sink or both, this cheap solution can offer you some relief from a fruit fly infestation. It should not take long to catch all of them. Mine were gone within 24 hours, just using two little traps.

I realize this is not exactly the cutest mason jar decor idea, but this homemade fruit fly trap is better looking than most bug traps I’ve had around my kitchen. If it comes down to choosing to keep bugs around my food or having one of these on the counter, I choose this.[social_warfare buttons=”facebook, pinterest, twitter, whatsapp, email”]

Here is how the trap works, the flies go in the holes at the top and eventually drown in the vinegar at the bottom. See how many fruit flies I caught? Those are my former unwanted house guests floating in their vinegar grave.