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Help! Fruit flies!

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So, my kitchen has a major infestation of fruit flies. Nothing I do seems too help. I fugimated my kitchen. Didn't help. I searched my kitchen for rotten objects. Found something, but removal didn't help. I set traps but they aren't working.
Any suggestions on how to get rid of them? There a big pest and I don't want them near my food.
 
I hate fruit flies.

I can't help you because i've only seen them inside one of the places I used to live at when my damn roommates where letting the dishes pile up. I broke down and did them even though it was their turn and they went away. Not sure why yours are still there.
 
check behind the appliances, I had a major infestation once and I cleaned everything, moved the appliances (some food fell behond one of them and never noticed the smell) and setup a few dozen traps, got all of them out in a few weeks. It took that long to finish up the swarm :(
 
try putting some vinegar in a spray bottle and water it down and spray it in the areas that seem to have the most
 
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BURN THE PLACE DOWN!!!
 
You have to have something, fruit, plant, etc....that is attracting them.
 
I suggest making a trap using rotting fruits (sweet ones, preferably). Once trapped, suffocate them or spray something into the trap. Remove dead flies, then repeat as needed :up:
 
I suggest making a trap using rotting fruits (sweet ones, preferably). Once trapped, suffocate them or spray something into the trap. Remove dead flies, then repeat as needed :up:
I'm doing that; doesn't seem to be working.
 
They tend to nest in smoke detectors. Open the one nearest to the kitchen a clean it out with bleach. Also pour some bleach down your garbage disposal.
 
Buy some fly sticky tape, it has a certain smell that attract these flies to it and they get stuck to it.
 
You have some sort of rotting something somewhere. My friend encountered this and found some rotten bananas that fell behind a table.
 
Ugh i hate flies... what are they even alive for? They don't pollinate like Bee's or anything do they? They don't help the ecosystem?
 
You have some sort of rotting something somewhere. My friend encountered this and found some rotten bananas that fell behind a table.
There was a rotten banana but I removed it and they're still here.
 
Ugh i hate flies... what are they even alive for? They don't pollinate like Bee's or anything do they? They don't help the ecosystem?

Things eat them, thus they help the ecosystem. Who's to say that everything needs a reason? What are you even alive for?
 
Vinegear and whatever kitchen soap you guys use over there. You put some of both in in a glass and then all you have to do is wait.
 
Ugh i hate flies... what are they even alive for? They don't pollinate like Bee's or anything do they? They don't help the ecosystem?
The remove trash from the enviroment and recycle it back into the enviroment.

Their larva (Maggots) can be used by humans

Wikipedia said:
Some types of maggots found on corpses have been found to be of great use to forensic scientists; specifically Forensic Entomology. By their stage of development, these maggots (and other insects) can be used to give an indication of the time elapsed since death, as well as the place the organism died. The lack of maggot presence is also telling in an investigation.
Maggot species can be identified using their DNA. The size of the house fly maggot is 10–20 mm (&#8540;–¾ in). At the height of the summer season, a generation of flies (egg to adult) may be produced in 12–14 days. Some other families of Insecta, such as Histeridae, feed on maggots. Thus, the lack of maggots would increase the estimated time of death.
Other types of maggots are bred commercially, as a popular bait in angling, and a food for carnivorous pets such as reptiles or birds.
Maggots have been used in medicine to clean out necrotic wounds and in food production, particularly of cheeses designed to rot as part of their 'aging' process. (casu marzu).
 
So in other words, you're doing the world a disservice. :up:
 
Also, fruit flies (Drosophila, specifically) have been used by scientists for years in genetic works to better understand mutations and the influence of genes in the body's development.
 
How is that a disservice? You a tree hugger or something? lol If it wasn't for people like me, as in, builders, you wouldn't have a roof over your head.
 

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