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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 23, 2014 7:09:07 GMT
I take a plastic water bottle, cut it in half put a smudge of banana in the bottom and poke a few holes in the cap and screw it back on and then invert the top half into the bottle like a funnel. I tape the edges together and the little buggers fly to the banana through the tiny holes but cannot get back out!
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Post by lovestocreate on Jul 23, 2014 7:30:00 GMT
White vinegar and dish soap has worked well for me.
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Post by triplejscrapper on Jul 23, 2014 13:06:57 GMT
Shallow dish with apple cider vinegar and a drop of dish liquid. You'll find them at the bottom! 
We get them really bad at work. One of my co-worker's loves to eat a fresh sliced tomato every day with her lunch. The problem? She will bring 5 tomatoes with her on Monday and then leave them on her desk at work all week!! The FF love this....she also leaves an open glass of Coke sitting on her desk all day. 
For all the rest of us that don't want to be swarmed  we have shallow saucers like the ones you put under coffee cups sitting on the top of our desks with apple cider vinegar and just a drop or two of Dawn added in. It is truly amazing how it works!! The smell draws them, the Dawn keeps them stuck and then they die!!!
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Post by MissBianca on Jul 23, 2014 15:33:44 GMT
I did this but instead of the vinegar I put a piece of fruit in it. www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-make-a-fruit-fly-trap-h-108577Worked like a charm. We have a pumpkin contest at our old school every year and the janitor wanted to put a ban on it because of the fruit flies. I made 6 of these traps and we didn't have issues after that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 15:46:10 GMT
I have battled them off and on for the past 18 months. Not sure where they came from but within several weeks of first seeing them I had hundreds, if not thousands. I used the vinegar and dish soap all over the house which caught hundreds of them but could not get rid of them....I finally did some research and discovered they were probably breeding on the lids of my 3 fish tanks and my houseplants....had a huge fight with dh to take down the fish tanks and moved all my plants outside. After a thorough deep cleaning of my house and all of my drains I FINALLY saw a huge reduction in them. I also got into the habit of closing my drains when done using them. It's been about a year now and I will ocassionaly see one or two and I keep the vinegar traps on my kitchen counter that I bought at Bed Bath and Beyond. They are so stinking hard to get rid of permanently. Because I shop at the farmers market, I think this is where I may get the ocassional one, but have not seen the population growth I did 18 months ago.
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we have shallow saucers like the ones you put under coffee cups sitting on the top of our desks with apple cider vinegar and just a drop or two of Dawn added in. It is truly amazing how it works!! The smell draws them, the Dawn keeps them stuck and then they die!!!
