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Household Hints & Help

ginnyinWI

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10. I tried this, and it is working, slowly...

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 01:08 PM

Nov 2012

After 24 hours there are a few in there, but today I tried a new remedy and I already have a lot of them caught:

Take an open jar and put some apple cider vinegar in, along with a drop or two of dishwashing liquid. The vinegar attracts them, and when they land, the detergent makes them lose their ability to land on top of it, and they sink and drown.

Meanwhile they seem to be multiplying! Hope this takes care of them.

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Fruit flies driving me nuts! [View all] shireen Nov 2012 OP

I got infested with moths this year - food moths, not clothes moths hollysmom Nov 2012 #1

google drain flies, that is probably what you actually have Kali Nov 2012 #2

it's definitely fruit flies shireen Nov 2012 #6

Take a clean empty soda bottle LiberalEsto Nov 2012 #3

i've been using a similar trap shireen Nov 2012 #7

I tried this, and it is working, slowly... ginnyinWI Nov 2012 #10

Also... silverweb Feb 2013 #11

These buggers can be anywhere.... Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #4

thanks ... shireen Nov 2012 #8

We had a problem with tiny flies, and it turns out they had infested the soil of a houseplant Lisa0825 Nov 2012 #5

sounds like fungus gnats shireen Nov 2012 #9