People what do i do with 30 very angry fruit flies. I bought some peaches.They lasted 3 days.

[applegrove]

I just made a smoothie and threw the rest away. Now i'm being mobbed. My cats seem only to chase moths. It there a trap i can make out of balsamic vinagre and oilive oil and salt? I did not grow up with them i have no customary knowledge on how to survive this.

[FBaggins]

1. Red wine vinegar works by itself

I use a few ramekins half-filled and covered with plastic wrap... then poke a few holes.

[applegrove]

5. I will try it. Thanks.

[hlthe2b]

2. I save (often for months) the last old bit of red wine and put it in shallow bowls... Works well.

As soon as you get rid of all remnants of garbage and whatever attracted them, clean counters or whatever might still be seeing activity and test with a few of these bowls, you should be good. Though, they come back frequently the next time you have fruit left out. Refrigerate fruits and vegetables in summertime--even if not recommended or not ripe...

[brewens]

3. If the fruit is still in the garbage, get rid of it and make sure you didn't have any

juice leak that might still be in the garbage can. It happens to me this time of year. Seems like once you get them going, you have to do away with any food source.

Besides fruit, don't have any empty beer cans around, they love beer and similar beverages.

[applegrove]

4. Thanks. I don't drink.

[mainstreetonce]

6. Apple cider vinegar

Just leave a small amount in an open container.

Worked better than any trap.

[applegrove]

9. I can do that.

[JoeOtterbein]

7. Take an old quart-size canning jar or similar. Take sheet of clean paper. Computer paper works good.

Make a cone shape with the paper with a tiny hole at the end. Take a piece of peach or a banana and place it in the jar. Tape the cone hole-down to the jar.

The flies get in to the fruit, and can't figure out how to get out the tiny hole.

They will accumulate in the jar quickly. They will continue to live on the rotting fruit for over a week. You will see new fruit flies born with one big eye and other mutations from the inbreeding after a short while.

[applegrove]

8. I could engineer that but don't want to have mutants to look at.

[JoeOtterbein]

10. It's an interesting science experiment, but you can kill them by running hot-water into the...

...jar!

In my past foodservice career I probably caught & killed hundreds of thousands of them.

Let me know when you need to kill some Norway Rats!

[applegrove]

12. Are norway rats the same think as packrats? I have experience with them evil critters

too.

[JoeOtterbein]

15. No. What you call a packrat is aka wood rat are mostly in the west.

Here on the east coast we got lots of Norway, or Brown, rats. Which are actually from China are all over most of the world.

[applegrove]

17. My neighbours at the back of my lot put their garbage on garbage day on our street. Too many rats

in their street. They are across from a park. I put my stuff out on garbage day with kitty waste and no rats. Ah the circle of life!

[JoeOtterbein]

18. I did the same when I had problems about 30 years ago!

"Great minds think alike" even after decades!

[applegrove]

19. I just wish cats would go after fruit flies.

[Grasswire2]

11. in the bottom of a glass jar (mason-style) put a little vinegar and sugar and drop of dish detergent

About an inch deep.

Then cover the top with saran wrap held with a rubber band, and poke a couple of holes in the top with a fork or knife tip.

Fruit flies will get in, but not get out.

One year I made a dozen of those jars 'round my kitchen. It was very bad hatch.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. The dish soap is important

It breaks the surface tension of the liquid. The flies can't float on top. Once they hit the liquid surface they drown.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. I use to grow oyster mushrooms in my basement

And it attracted ever fruit fly and gnat in a 12 mile radius.

So, since I was organic, I developed my own spin on a trap. First you need a light near where the gnats are. At night the light will attract them. Then 2 fly paper strips hanging near the light. And then any kind of attractant in small bowls next to the light. Wine, started yeast, vinegar, rotting fruit or live oyster mycelium or any most common item that attracts gnats and fruit flies. In 48 hours all your gnats and fruit flies will be stuck to the paper. Works like a charm.

It use to clear out my grow room of those little buggers and kept it clean. It works even better than frogs.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

14. Fruit fly -

"Drosophila melanogaster"

Loosely translated: "Garbage-loving black butt"

[abqtommy]

16. This is a Groucho Marx quote:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana... To cope with flies or gnats I use good old flypaper.

[NNadir]

20. I suggest fly paper. It usually works pretty well. The flies do go away if you don't give them...

...something to eat, but it can take a few days.

Good luck.

[NCLefty]

22. Cats are largely useless with insects.

Especially if they are well-fed. :p

EDIT: We've had issues with mosquitoes and other flying critters. I bought a "bug light" (the kind that zaps them dead on contact) on Amazon and it works wonders. It's not perfect, but it's a matter of attrition with these bugs. They cannot fly around endlessly in your house without eventually going "into the light." Fruit flies should be no problem if you put the light near a bowl of fruit.

[Coventina]

23. My husband just calls them his emotional support animals.

[applegrove]

24. LOL!