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Hot summer days often bring parasitic fruit flies that you don't want. If you leave a basket of fresh fruit on the kitchen table for your kids to snack on, and then there's a few moldy peaches left over, black-spotted bananas and annoying hums around them, then Maybe you have a fruit fly problem. Get rid of those annoying little insects by trying some of the removal methods or traps below.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Trapping

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   Use fruit that has been damaged. The problem with flies may not be discovered until you realize you forgot the fruit until they are spoiled. Use fly trapping to capture them, this will completely destroy the flies. Place a piece of broken fruit in a bowl, and stretch a layer of plastic paper over the surface. Use a toothpick to poke holes in the top of the bowl, and leave them near where there are many flies, and they will be attracted to the smell of spoiled fruit that cannot escape.

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   Sacrifice some wine. Humans are not the only thing that is attracted to wine. Fruit flies are also attracted to this wine. Make sure the fly catcher is ready every time you open a bottle of wine. Pour the wine so that there is a bit of wine about 2cm or less on the bottom. Keep the bottles near where the flies are, and they'll get in, but the bottleneck effect will keep them trapped.

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   Try apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is a must-have household product because it has so many useful uses. Including the ability to kill flies every time they explode in number. Pour a little vinegar into the cup. Then place a plastic sheet or funnel-shaped paper on top. The funnel would block most of the entrance, creating a space large enough for the flies to get in but too small for the less-intelligent to escape. A more powerful approach is to add dishwashing liquid to the vinegar to create a solution that kills flies.

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   Make a trap with dishwashing liquid. When mixed with a solution that has a sweet taste, the dishwashing liquid cannot be detected by flies. The chemical composition of the soap acts as a poison and kills careless flies. Take a can, fill it with a mixture of vinegar (any type will work) and sugar - it doesn't matter the proportions. Add a little dishwashing liquid and mix them well. The flies will be attracted to the sweet and sour taste, but they will die by absorbing the toxins in the soap.

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   Make beer traps. Now that you know fruit flies love alcohol, not just wine. Take a can of paint and pour beer into about half a box, whatever beer. Use a hammer and nail to make a small hole in the lid, about 3-5 holes is fine. Cover the lid and let the flies gather. After a few days you can pour the beer out and replace it with a new beer to destroy more.

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   Use soda bottles. If you are drinking soda, you are in luck. Take a bottle of soda (whatever you use, although the chocolates seem more effective) and make a hole through the lid. Pour the soda out just leave a little bit on the bottom of the bottle. Open the lid and check for the drowned flies!

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   Use alcohol yeast. This may sound strange, but a mixed fermentation can help you capture and get rid of the fruit flies. Take half a cup of warm water and 1 teaspoon of sugar, and add in some dry yeast. Mix the mixture well (bubbles will be created!) And then cover the cup with a plastic sheet. Poke holes in the plastic to allow the flies to get in, but make sure the hole is small enough for the flies to fly out.

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   Hang the fly stick. Surely this is the least appealing method of a fly trap. However, sticky pads are very good at catching flies. The super glue stick will attract flies and trap them as soon as they appear. Place the stick on a spot where you rarely pass through. Can be placed directly above the sink for best results. advertisement

Method 2 of 3: Fly-Free Habitat

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   Eliminate their habitat. Fruit flies, quite clearly, are attracted to fruit and fruit. However, they also go to wherever the dirt and most spoiled food are found. Try to get rid of spoiled food immediately, and keep trash and drain areas clean and free of leftovers. This will reduce your ability to turn your home into their breeding habitat.

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   Kill their eggs. If you see a noticeable increase in fly populations, they are likely laying eggs somewhere around your home. Fruit flies like humid places, such places could be the kitchen or the bath or the bathroom drain. Put the sanitizer down the drain to kill the fly eggs if they're there. If you don't have a sanitizer, bleach can be used instead, but they are too weak and not viscous enough, and may not stick to the eggs to kill them.

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   Plant a basil plant indoors. Oddly enough, fruit flies don't like basil. If you plant one and keep it green, you will make the flies disappear. Plant basil in a small pot and keep it in your home near where the flies seem to like to gather. Or close to the fruit basket, the flies will appear less in the future.

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   Use cedar wood. A strange natural foe, fruit flies were repelled by the scent of cedar wood. Find a way to make this wood appear in your home, be used as furniture or firewood, and reduce the number of fruit flies. Keep these pieces of wood around your kitchen and near where they spawn to keep the flies away.

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   Spray some essential oils. Make your home fragrant and avoid flies and other insects by spraying your room regularly with certain essential oils. The scent of lemon grass and lavender repels flies and many other bugs, and prevents them from concentrating in one area. Mix 10 drops of one essential oil with 60ml of hot water, and spray it all over your room. advertisement

Method 3 of 3: Get rid of the flies quickly

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   Make a sticky fly swatter. Like most people, your first reaction to seeing so many flies is to want to knock them out. Unfortunately for us, their small size makes them extremely difficult to hit. To fix this problem, make a homemade sticky fly blister. Take a sponge, and spray it with a thick layer of cooking oil. When you smash those tiny flies, they get caught in the cooking oil and stuck to the sponge, and eventually they will die.

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   Use a hair dryer. If you want revenge on those nasty little flies, get your hairdryer out and point it at them! Turn on the hairdryer to blow the air out of the fan, the side inlet will suck those flies in, where they will be cooked by the heating wire. It sounds disgusting, of course. But those flies will disappear fairly quickly.

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   Burn some mosquito scent. Fruit flies' microscopic respiratory systems are sophisticated, and they need a constant supply of clean air. This means that respiratory irritants, such as smoke, can kill them very quickly. Of course you can't make a fire in your home, but you can burn mosquito scent, smoke and the aroma that comes out from the sticks will slowly kill them.
4. Use a vacuum cleaner. Use a vacuum cleaner with a flexible straw (and the stronger the suction force, the more effective this measure). It should also have a large suction nozzle.
   • Set a fruit trap. As they gather around the fruit, slowly enter.
   • Once the flies have landed for a while, they will not fly immediately, unlike when they landed. Smoke them quickly, then throw them outside.
   • Important: if the dust bag is full, the suction power will not be strong enough for this method to be effective.
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Advice

• Fruit flies take about 8-10 days to mature from the time they hatch from eggs, so keep using elimination measures even as the first generation of flies disappear. This will inevitably be their future generations also scrapped.