Kitchen

[Flo08]

Pour a little vinegar in your drains at night. Then flush with hot water in the AM. The vinegar will draw them to the drain and hot water will flush them away. I also make traps with vinegar in cut off water bottles covered with plastic wrap with toothpick holes and held with rubber bands. Can toss after a few days

[poshmini]

Was at Lowe's this weekend and saw in the garden center, at the checkout line, disposable fruit fly traps. Easy peazy. I get them as well, when we have bananas or grapes in a bowl. I think under 6 bucks, you get more than one I believe. Hope this helps.

[FunkyHulaGirl]

That's what I used, Flo - cut-off water bottles. Yesterday I did boil a kettle of water and poured it down the drains to kill any buggies or eggs that might be there and it seems to have helped a little; I'll try the cider vinegar as well. (sigh)

The ants aren't too bad, although I can't for the life of me figure out how - on the rare occasion I'll take something into a room where I don't normally eat and a few crumbs are dropped - suddenly hundreds of them find their way to it! I did find some in my sugar - which is kept in a large, supposedly air-tight Lock n Lock container. Best thing to keep ants away is to sprinkle Aspartame (Splenda or Nutra-Sweet) in places where you see them. (Another good reason not to ingest that junk...)

I'm trying to stick to all-natural remedies; I don't want to use chemicals, both for my own health concerns and also that of the furkids - even boric acid can harm them.

[Zeoershova]

keeping your place clean is the basic thing to keep your home and surrounding pest free.

If you are having so much problem with ants and flies then, you must hire a professional pest controlling service. These pest controlling services have team of experts or professionals that are capable of removing pest from your home without creating any kind of destruction. you can check online also about such services or service providing companies westernexterminator.com, www.pestworld.org, http://www.pest-control.ru/ are some of the renown pest and insect exterminator providers. You can contact them

[DM Tiara]

If these fruit flies are pesky in the bathroom, they are in the drains. Run your straight, hot water in tub/shower/sink basin for a few minutes, periodically throughout the week.

Definitely do the same in kitchen and/or utility laundry sinks. Fruit flies like even the cleanest of drains. Frequently running hot water COOKS them to death.

Voila! No more fruit flies!

DM Tiara

[Cookie06]

If you have any indoor plants, check the soil. I think those pesky critters lay eggs in the dirt. One time in our office of all places we had tons of those little fruit flies. I went crazy trying to figure out where they were coming from. I noticed they were hanging around the plant in my office. I checked the dirt and when I stirred it up, hundreds of those creepy little flies came out. Yuck. I threw the whole plant and all out in the garbage. Worth a try, they have to be coming from somewhere.

[bigkat]

Hey FHG, don't know if you fixed the problem or not yet. I had this one fall when I brought in a bunch of tomatoes. I am not "crazy" clean, but I would say I have a very clean house. We had them mainly in the kitchen, but also the bathrooms. I had heard that they lay eggs in the drains. I put baking soda in the drains and poured vinegar in, it will bubble up, just let it sit as long as you can before turning on the water. Took care of the issue for us.

[lovestopaint]

Funky, try Item # 42033 Plow and Hearth handmade crackle glass and apple fruit fly trap. Works like a charm.

[debcakes]

I put some natural vinegar in a wine glass. It doesn't look too bad and the fruit flies love it.

[Rowan123]

On 6/3/2014 Cookie06 said:

If you have any indoor plants, check the soil. I think those pesky critters lay eggs in the dirt. One time in our office of all places we had tons of those little fruit flies. I went crazy trying to figure out where they were coming from. I noticed they were hanging around the plant in my office. I checked the dirt and when I stirred it up, hundreds of those creepy little flies came out. Yuck. I threw the whole plant and all out in the garbage. Worth a try, they have to be coming from somewhere.

Those are fungus gnats. They're different from fruit flies but as you said it's a good idea to check potted plants too.