Catch Fruitflies with Vinegar
Now that summer is almost over, you’ll probably be traveling a lot more to get in that last minute vacation time. Hopefully, you won’t leave out any fruits or vegetables while you’re gone. If you do, you’ll probably end up with fruit flies. Those little pesky bugs can stick around for weeks while you try to smash, squish, and obliterate them all. It can be become pretty frustrating.
If you want to get rid of fruit flies — and get rid of them quick — all you need is some apple cider vinegar, an empty plastic bottle, and a piece of notebook paper.
All you have to do is fill an empty plastic bottle (a 16oz bottle will do) about 1/3 of the way full with the apple cider vinegar. Then, roll the paper into a tube that has a significantly bigger opening on one end than the other. Take the smaller end and put it in the open end of the bottle and set it near the spot where the flies are circulating most. Note: You don’t need to put the paper in the vinegar. Just use it as a funnel.
The fruit flies are attracted to the vinegar and land on the large end of the notebook paper. They crawl down inside the bottle, through the smaller end, and are then stuck. They cannot fly back out of the small hole they crawled in through.
Usually the flies will all be gone overnight, but it is a good idea to leave out the vinegar an additional day or two, just to be sure.
