How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies
If you spend a decent amount in your kitchen, you probably wonder why you are never quit able to completely get rid of fruit flies because they seem to perennially be there. That is despite doing one’s best to keep the kitchen environment clean. While you may succeed in keeping the kitchen floor, counter tops and garbage can squeaky clean, this pesky flies still seem to not go away.
If it’s any consolation, you are not alone as most people suffer the same problem. Having a basic understanding of what attracts fruit flies is a good basis on where to start in eliminating them from your kitchen. They love over ripe fruits and vegetables and what’s more, they breed on anything that contains moisture and has fermenting material. That explains why areas such as the sink and shower drains, trash cans and garbage areas are so prone to having loads of fruit fly.
Although the life of the fruit fly is fairly shot, they can multiply with alarming rapidity. A single female fruit fly can lay up to 500 eggs at ago. Now that is just a recipe for infestation. Hence the reason why one should seek to get rid of them as soon as they start noticing them in the kitchen, bathroom or any part of the house. In case you don’t know how or most methods you have tried before don’t seem to be effective, check out these tried and tested tips that will help you consistently and effectively get rid of fruit flies every time they appear
1. Pour hot water down the drain
The idea behind getting rid of fruit flies is preventing them from multiplying while killing off the visible ones. Since the sink drain is a common breeding ground for fruit flies, one should pour boiling hot water in their drain. An effective alternative to boiling water is boiling white vinegar. Either of this kills any fruit flies and their eggs that might be breeding in the drain.
2. Keep the kitchen clean
Keeping counter tops and garbage cans clean as well as the kitchen floor plays a role in reducing this pesky flies. Washing vegetables when you come from the market also helps get rid of any fruit flies embedded in the veggies. Rotten parts should be immediately discarded as these are breeding grounds for the fruit fly
3. Apple cider vinegar
The scent of apple cider vinegar attracts fruit flies. Pour some in a bowl, cover the top of the bowl with a polythene paper and a put rubber band round the edges of the paper so that the paper holds taut. Using a pointy object such as a toothpick, make 3-4 on the polythene paper. The flies will go in to enjoy the vinegar cider but will not be able to come out.
Conclusion
These solutions can be used separately or all together in attacking fruit flies from all angles and decimating their populations in your household. Keeping the environment clean, while killing the eggs in breeding areas and trapping others all at the same time ensures they have no food, no breeding grounds and the eggs die off. For once you are about to experience what a fruit fly less kitchen feels like.
