If you are like us, you might have a container in your kitchen to store your compostable scraps temporarily until your lazy husband takes them out to the compost pile. Or maybe you just like your fruit and veggies to be "well-ripened". Either way, you probably have had a fruit fly or two (or a hundred?) annoyingly buzzing around your kitchen from time to time. Even in the winter, these annoying pests can find solace in a warm cozy home, especially if you have houseplants anywhere near the kitchen. This past summer seemed to be a particularly bad one for fruit flies in our house, so I was determined to find a no-cost solution to rid us of this pestilence!
Remember the old adage, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"? Well in this case, exactly the opposite is true. This easy and effective solution to fruit flies not only worked like a charm for us, but also by several other of our friends and family who have tried it since. Here's how to do it:
Get yourself a small cup-like vessel of some sort. We used a very small bowl we had, but a teacup will work fine. Fill the bowl or cup with apple cider vinegar to within about an inch or two of the brim. I haven't tried other types of vinegar, but I would guess they would work the same way. For some reason, I assume apple cider is the "sweetest" of the vinegars we have in our house, so that's what I went with. Add two or three drops of dish soap to the bowl. This eliminates the surface tension on the liquid so when the flies land on the vinegar, they fall in. Place the bowl near wherever you are having the problem and watch the magic happen!
We collected about 30-40 flies in just a few days. Let me know how it works out for you.
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