Every summer we get fruit flies and they're everwhere, I can barely cook without them flying into my food and I have to throw it away and start over. I just started seeing them a few weeks ago and i'm getting annoyed already:sealed: , is there anyway that I can get them to go away without having a bug guy to get rid of them for me? I don't want to kill them I just want them out of my apt and out of my food. :help: :wall:

I have a terrible fruit fly problem too. Things really pile up when I'm sick.
For starters you have to make sure there's no fruit around to attract them.
I have trouble with this because I eat a lot of fruit.

I have problems with them and I do not even keep fruit really, they attack veggies also and almost anything else to be honest.
They even like cat litter boxes.

Erm, I mass murder them

you can put a piece of banana(or other fruit) in a jar with a paper rolled into a cone put into it, and they go in after the fruit, but can't get back out, then you take it outside, and remove the cone. I've heard bay leaves in your fruit bowl keeps them away too. I think lavendar oil too...

Our housemate is really into gardening and says that lavendar is a natural bug repellant. I have no experience with it but it's probably worth a shot :)

Compost if something that really attracts fruit flies. Many times I get fruit flies because I'm forgetting or falling behind in taking out the compost.

Try keeping all your fruit in the fridge and other food sealed in containers, and making sure that all spills and dirty plates are cleaned immediately, and that your rubbish bin has a lid on it. You have to try to make sure that there is no food for them to feed on at all. These things might help.

time flies like the wind fruit flies like bananas .......sorry that didn't help :(

Vineger and a fruit fly trap. There's a good example of one here

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef621.htm

check around online for what may work best for you. I've seen traps like these really work very well in controling fruit flies.

good luck!

Wash all your fruits and veggies as soon as you get them home. Fruit fly eggs can be on them waiting to hatch. I believe they are also attracted to sugary stuff so keep all sweets and sugars put up in containers. If they don't have anything to eat they won't live. Wonder what an average life cycle of a fruit fly is? Can't be long I assume.

I just put it out about 15 minutes ago and I already see a few of them, but they're just sitting on the paper. How do I get them to fly inside or are they supposed to just sit there?

Well I went back to check and there are 2 or 3 inside but what is going to stop them from flying back out of the hole where they came in through? I'm nervous, I want to get rid of them and I can't stand 3 months of themg getting into my food again this year. :wall:

They don't realize that they can fly back through the hole. Unless the hole is pretty big, they won't be able to get out. Make sure it's reeeeally tiny!

Fill the jar half up with sugar water. They'll be attracted to the sweet and drown.

ok...should i make another one? i made the hole too big?

yes make another one with a smaller hole.

Ahhh I have this problem as well. One evening last summer I had a glass of wine and I left about an inch of wine in the glass on the counter over night. Next morning I woke up and there were over a dozen fruit flies floating around dead in the wine. So as SotallyTober said leave something sweet out and they'll drown in it.