FRUIT FLY INFESTATION and how to deal with it | Growing food in small spaces
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2021
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Sometimes sh*tty situations helps you learn the most. I am in the midst of a fruit fly infestation thanks to a mistake on my part with my worm bin. So I set about on an experiment to find out the best way to get rid of fruit flies. That said the BEST thing is not to get them in the frost place!
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The reason the apple cider vinegar did not work is because she missed the very important step that was adding a squirt of dish soap. The red color and acidic scent of the vinegar attracts the flies, but it is the soap which kills them.
All the dish soap really does is it reduces the water's surface tension making it easier to drown them. I don't really use it in my own apple cider vinegar trap because it isn't necessary for my trap to work. The dish soap is only necessary if you have a small dish or a jar lid filled with apple cider vinegar. The idea is when the flies land on the apple cider vinegar with the dish soap, they sink into it and can't get back out. Thus killing them. My trap uses tall narrow wine glasses with a small yellow funnel on top. The wine glasses are filled with the apple cider vinegar to attract them. The funnel more or less traps them once they get past the funnel. One time out of ten the fly is able to find their way back out of the funnel and escape the trap. However, nine times out of ten the fly is trapped inside the wine glass until it starts to die. Once that happens, the fly will fall into the apple cider vinegar and drown.
She talks too much Needs to get to the point😢
Only takes a drop or two of dish soap to break the surface tension of water to drown them
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@@tomw051953Hear, hear! 🤭😴
my recipe for ACV is: 1/2 cup warm water, 2T ACV, 1T sugar and about 6 drops of dish soap to break up the surface tension of the liquid. I think the dish soap is important.
I use the apple cider vinegar all the time with great results. A couple of notes about your method.... first the holes should be smaller, I use a toothpick or a fork to poke holes in the plastic. Second you should add a dash of dish soap to whatever liquid you’re putting in your jar. I tried it without adding dish soap and the fruit flies are sometimes able to fly into the liquid and fly back out again with no problem. Adding the dish soap creates a barrier that traps them inside the liquid. I also don’t use straight ac vinegar I always water it down to conserve.
I use apple cider vinegar, a little water, dash of sugar and couple drops of dish soap. Takes out fungus gnats and fruitflies. I don't even cover the bowl. Although putting plastic over with small holes makes sense.
Adding a drop of dish soap does not create a "barrier" in the apple cider vinegar. It breaks the surface tension so the fruit flies can't walk on top of the vinegar. With the single, small dab of the dish soap breaking the surface tension, the fruit flies sink into the apple cider vinegar and drown.
I DID NOT EXPECT THAT FRUIT FLY TO BUZZ ACROSS YOUR FACE !
How dare that little menace, the timing was insane and was hysterical.
Loved your video and appreciate the time you put into it, thank you 💗
I used a mixture of regular apple cider vinager, dish soap and sugar and it traps them like a charm. I don't even poke holes. I use one of those plastic takeou containers and leave it open. In just one night there was like 20 of them.
I have caught 100x that in the Super Ninja Fruit Fly Trap from Amazon. Small, no smell or diy jars.
I LOVED your video!
Thanks for the information!
I also love your “style” and how you don’t simply take for granted what you find on the “inter-webs”, lol.
Someone said, “she talks too much, needs to get to the point.”
I vehemently disagree!
Keep on being YOU!
God Bless!!
Thanks so much for taking the time to be kind. The comments are so hurtful sometimes, so thank you 💕
Apple cider vinegar combined with a little dish soap worked for me. The very first day about 30 flies were all over the trap. They got in there fast and could not figure a way out. Now, three days later I see only one or two outside of it and none alive inside. I have two young cats, who have probably caught some too but those traps absolutely have worked fast within three days. So don't give up on the Apple cider vinegar right away, try different brand if one doesn't attracting them enough. And don't forget to break the surfaces tension with dish soap.
Anyway, I appreciate this video. It's always good to learn of more options.
I use some narrow wine glasses filled with apple cider vinegar and some small yellow funnels on top. Fruit flies are attracted to the color white and yellow. So the funnels used should be that color. They are also attracted to those colors of light as well. Another thing they are attracted to is carbon dioxide. Makes sense as something fermenting will give off a lot of that. So maybe some apple juice with some sugar and yeast mixed in would make for a better bait than apple cider vinegar. As for the trap I use, it is quite effective in killing fruit flies. However one time out of ten I have observed that some of the fruit flies that land on the funnel inside the trap are able to crawl into the funnel opening and escape. Nine times out of ten the fruit flies stay in the trap until they die. I suppose I could put some double sided scotch tape on the funnel inside the trap to prevent any escapes.
I used the exact same vinegar mixed with lots of sugar and a few drops of dish liquid and it worked the best because they love sweet stuff…the dish liquid is heavy and once it sticks to their feet they can’t fly back out of the jars. The plain vinegar of course doesn’t give off a sweet smell. Plain sugar water also works. I used 10 bowls of this all around my kitchen and living room except I didn’t cover the bowls which is the best way but you need to make sure the bowls/jar’s are filled all the way up to the rim because once they land they can’t fly back out.
I brought home fruit flies from a large supermarket chain. When you go to the onion bin you will see onions that are starting to rot, same thing with a bin for the avocados they are over ripe. Unknowingly at the time, I bought produce there and then had a problem in my apartment. I have never been one to leave fruit out on the counter...and I am compulsive about cleaning, actually anal about cleaning.
I did the apple cider vinegar, a drop of dish soap and water...worked great but I was still seeing the infant fruit flies around. I learned that the adult fruit flies will lay their eggs in the very top of my indoor plants. I read if you allowed the soil to dry out that would prevent the eggs from hatching. I also sprayed my houseplants with Neem....which actually damaged my plants. Last resort, I threw out my lovely houseplants and bought fake plants. I have done everything including pouring boiling water down my drains. Pouring bleach down my drains. I bagged and tied off my garbage so the trash bag was not open and I threw out my trash every day.
I will no longer buy my produce from that supermarket and I am going to make a complaint because it is obvious they have a problem and they are not addressing it.
Have you ever had a fruit fly or fungus gnat issue with your Aerogarden? I did last year when growing lettuces but not herbs. Though the room also had houseplants that may have had water sitting in catch saucers. Sticky traps and better watering helped a lot until most indoor plants went outdoors. Hoping to avoid a rerun this winter. Thanks for all your helpful videos and experiments and experience !
Apple sider vinegar with sugar and a drop or two of dish liquid. That works as well. Not plain acv thanks for the other tips. 👍
Those look more like Phorid Flies than Fruit Flies. Fruit Flies have big red eyes. Phorid Flies are black/dark brown and tend to be attracted to decaying organic matter or fecal matter...that's why the ACV didn't really work all that well. Hope that helps 💛 Love the science experiment!
How do you get rid of phorrid flies?
@@Doktracy Phorrid flies live in drains and areas where there may be breaks in water pipes. They breed and lay their eggs on wet, decaying, matter. You have to find their nesting spots, usually down the drains of your sinks and tubs, and get rid of the scum in the pipes. If you have a septic tank, it's not good to pour the over the counter drain fly killer in there. It will resolve itself over time, but you really need to find out where they're breeding and laying eggs and get rid of any organic material that they could be laying eggs in. They could be in other areas aside from drains too. If you have a problem with mice, or an animal got in and died in your chimney or wall, they could be in there too. You basically have to find the places where they're nesting, and get rid of the scum they're laying eggs in. Use light traps in every room, especially bathrooms and anyplace where there's a sink. Those work really well to knock the flying population down a little. Change the sticky pad on the light traps every week or two. Also, phorrid flies get attracted to light. You usually don't see them during the day, but they will harass the hell out of you at night, especially if you sit near lights. Keeping the rooms relatively dark with just those light traps going, works well. This won't make the problem go away. You need to find where they're breeding and get rid of the organic crap in the drains or wherever, to truely get rid of them. Phorrid flies are much more persistant and more prone to long term infestation than fruit flies. Those flies in your video are definitely phorrid flies.
I accidentally left a jar on the counter with tomato pasta sauce in it....when i went back to it the next morning fruit flies were thick all over it!! So yeah you never know whats going to work the best.I could tell they loved it!!! I totally learned by accident!! Ive never seen so many fruit flies before!!!
I buy Persian cinnamon rolls to put in my freezer. I had 3 packages I put on my kitchen table unopened for a couple of hours. When I went in to bag them for the freezer, they were all 3 boxes, swarming full of gnats.
I was not expecting to hear of sugar as a bait ingredient. Does sugar even have a 'scent'? (I'm talking about white refined sugar, rinsed of all aromatic residues).
But there 'would' be one important contribution that 'could' be at play here:
The sugar would surely activate any yeast present, (and there is ALWAYS some incidental yeast in anything exposed for a bit of time...)
It would be interesting to try some sugar in your seed solution. I think only a pinch is needed. Any more is probably waste and more that the yeast would use. [If you do, do a comparison; one with and one without sugar. Need to use a single container for the seed juice, to then divide into two traps, so the initial seed solution is the same, then add sugar to just the one...]
Color was mentioned; maybe Red wine??
[I was going to joke that they didn't like cheap wine (but that sounded insulting) LOL]
I enjoyed the video, thanks!
So interesting! I'm battling them too and they attach my ferments. Totally makes sense!!! I tried using ACV too and it didnt work either. I appreciate the info
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Yeah it was definitely a surprise, I have honestly found that I learnt he best lessons when something goes wrong! Also, nothing beats a good experiment!
Can you only use ACV?
My go-to trap is the Apple cider vinegar. But not the "best" kind. I use the cheap ones. They are usually more pungent. Yes, the holes need to be smaller than shown on the video. I usually use a simple toothpick to make just a few holes. Usually about 4 or 5 holes. Less if the lid is small. The drop of dish soap is to break the surface tension of the apple cider vinegar, which makes the fruit flies sink when they land in the liquid. The "seed guts" water also works for the same reason. It has a pungent fruit smell that attracts them to the liquid in which they die. The two main parts: the bait and the trap.
I have a lot of experience trying to trap fruit flies. All you have to do is use the apple cider vinegar with a drop of soap and put it in a wine or bottle with small neck. Works great and takes 1 minute. I leave 3 or 4 all over the kitchen and they take care of all the flies and blend in!
Instead of using my canning jars and wasting saran wrap, I use any container like a bottle from soda, water, juices or the butter tubs- that you were going to throw out. I use the 10 oz Welchs juice containers. Pour in the liquid trap solution of your choice. Take a sodering iron, put 1 hole in the center of the cap. Put the cap on. And place the container where you see them. And I rinse them out and reuse them as I need to.
I make a cup of coffee with creamers and a little sugar. Just leave a little bit in cup , no need to cover they will drown
Cool video!
Thanks!
If you have any rotting potatoes or onions.... you will be overrun! I found mine because of this video. I had a ton of them we were killing daily but more kept coming. I realized I had forgotten about a bucket of seed potatoes we did not get planted out of the hundred or so we did plant. Keep on top of your potatoes. I had this issue many years ago and forgot about how potatoes just seem to grow them from nothing.
So glad you found where they were coming from!!!!
I get them in my kitchen all summer. I've put traps with all different fruit, cider, water, jam (jelly) and it catches loads but not enough for me. I think they're coming in from my compost cones. I don't know what to do to stop them. It's depressing.
I know the feeling. While hydrogen peroxide drenches worked to kill a lot of the larvae, it was very time-consuming. My savior has been the BT bacteria in Mosquito Bits. Fungus gnats and mosquitos are closely related so the same bacteria will attack both’s neurological systems. You’ll get way fewer adults and the adults you do get will be small and sterile.
If your local Home and Garden store has the disks, you can break them into pieces to spread them out and/or save some money. You can also crumble them to make sure they get into all corners of your cone. The effect will kick in the most after 2-3 weeks and then you replace the disks after a month. Make sure to keep this up to control the population. If you get the dried corn type, supposedly they kick in faster (24 hrs) but only last 1 week.
The best thing is BT is harmless to any other organisms, including beneficial microbes and bugs. Just don’t accidentally kill the BT bacteria with a hydrogen peroxide drench!
Hope that helps!
Interesting thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Flies swarmed me as I tried to slice cranberries for dehydrating. I put some of the mushy berries in a water bottle an put a paper funnel in it. and it attracted so many of the little buggers!
Rotting fruit seems to be the best attractant. Ithink the idea of the ACV is that Vineger is made from fermentation, but ACV is pretty much finished. There is no sugar to ferment and nothing to attract the bugs to it.
Seed water and rotten fruit seems to be the best. I guess i'll add some water for them to drown in to the bottle and hope it keeps the population down.
Thanks for confirming what I suspected.
They are such a pain in the butt!
I’ve had good luck with kombucha to attract fruit flies. I wonder how that would compare with the seed water. Thanks for the good info!
That would be a good comparison! Kombucha is something I have been curious about but I haven't really tried it before. If you test out the two let me know which wins out!
The apple cider vinegar mixture worked for me. I had a bad infestation, but I didn't get to the source the first time.
Awesome! Thank you so much!!
Hope it helps!!! Fruit flies are so annoying!
@@The_IndoorGardener I do agree. Have a great weekend! 😄
Good I learned something
I had good luck with braggs vinegar, sugar and dish soap. Based on your suggestion, Im going to try the same but add a chunk of banana and run it all through the blender.
Another thing I did was have a spray bottle with half vinegar, half rubbing alcohol. When they all landed on the tops of the trap, I would spritz them down killed them. It was easy to rinse the top off and check back in hour. That really knocked down the infestation.
I may try your spritz technique...nothing has worked.
@@sislertx It really helped a lot.
I have the clear sticky traps theatres you place on the windows and a electric bug zapper
Thanks! I hate that I wasted my Braggs but lesson learned
Sewer flies coming out of your drains. Cover all drains when possible.
So they might be coming from the drains, tub,shower, sinks, all this stuff to get them but what I do is I use Ant and roach spray by RAID. So I just stray all the drains also that overflow in the bathroom sink. I spray the bottom of the frig also. Those drain flies lay eggs in the drain. All this stuff on this video is ok if you are catching insects to use them for something.
Does any of these work for the two types of house flies? Thx
I agree about the soap but the plastic cover with holes aren’t really necessary. I don’t cover my dish at all and a get tons of dead fruit flies
Covering the dish never worked for me either. I think mine are just too lazy to bother with trying to work their way into the holes.
I agree with BOTH of you! I had a small empty plastic container that was not clear that I used. Added ACV 1 inch deep w a splash of water, and stirred in 1 tablespoon sugar and a few drops of Blue Dish soap into it, and NO plastic wrap either! It was loaded beyond my expectations with gnats /fruit flies in 24hrs!!! I also keep up my Amazon subscription to the Yellow 2-sided Sticky Traps. They're the BEST sticky killers I've purchsed, i tried many!...Same Brand you held up!🤣❤😮
I was wondering if that would work because my ff are just dancing around on the seran wrap. My mixture is super intoxicating to them. Little orange juice, little regular vinegar, and barbecue sauce, and or honey mixture. I will add dish soap to that now and leave off the wrap. TY
to save tomato seeds , you just squeeze on a paper towel, let dry, put in ziplock bag, then tear off what you want to plant. place towel and all in dirt
Would prefer if you just got straight to the point - however your video was very informative 👌
Actually when I put out apple vinegar with detergent and sugar and place it on a table. No action. But if I put it on my porch I don’t even need to put sugar in. Inside the house, the sticky papers get rid of flies and gnats. I have had no success with apple vinegar inside the house, no matter the brand of vinegar with sugar and a few drops of detergent. The insects inside my house are attracted to the sticky paper. The gnats got inside my house from a house plant I bought. I have used hydrogen peroxide and need oil etc. The thing that works best is the sticky paper and diatomaceous.
The problem with traps is that they attract more of them. I am reading they don't like strong smells like cinnamon and sence they use their noise to find your place you can use that against them.
Normally there always for me had to be fruit juice and dish soap with the vinegar and it worked perfectly. Strangely nothing much happening with the multi vitamin and other juice i have right now
Maybe the wine jar was the best after all, but the flies escaped through the secret door.
How do u kill the eggs? Vinegar did not work for me. I don't even know where they are coming from. I am going crazy
A fan works great...
I don't cover with plastic
The best is a little apple cider vinegar and a slice of banana with the banana just above the vinegar. Small holes in the middle. No holes near the edge.
Should have added a drop of dawn dish detergent and all of them would have caught something
So wine wins right...iv just tried the lemon one..I will see tomorrow if it works...but I will definitely do the wine as I drink wine regularly..thank for the trick
Wine worked best for me
Wine worked best for me
JD works well instead o wine!
I wish you had spent a bit more time explaining the SEED WATER method after all it's the one that seemed to work best, I watched the video twice and still have no idea of what seeds you're talking about. Thanks for your time.
That’s a great point! Sorry about that. When I save tomato seeds from the garden I fill a little mason jar with some water and then squeeze in the tomato jelly/seeds and leave it to sit for a few days. I was using that leftover “seed water” after I had fished out the seeds. Hope that helps
I opened the fridge door and two fruit flies flew out. Found another today. I now double bag all food in the fridge. I hate them. I even found one in the bottle of water I was drinking. Only left it for a few seconds, but somehow it managed to get in.
Traps are only temporary fixes gotta kill the eggs. Roach spray and flee foggers will destroy them all.
Add dish soap to your vinegar
Urine works awesome esp. After it sits for a couple days and ferments
You mix vinegar with water and sugar or honey or fruit. Not just vinegar. Must be diluted
I've tried everything n I still haven't gotten rid of them. I saw some one in RUclips let them land in your Seine glass then set them free outside...uhm if the vinegar attracts them then why not use wine with the soap saran wrap smh I don't get it lol I heard salt in the drain is good too. Bleach didn't help either.
How did you make the furmented water for the fruit flies. I'm drowning in them
Someone else asked the same thing. Sorry about that. When I save tomato seeds from the garden I fill a little mason jar with some water and then squeeze in the tomato jelly/seeds and leave it to sit for a few days. I was using that leftover “seed water” after I had fished out the seeds. Hope that helps
I tried apple cider vinegar...zero results...maybe Canadian fruit flies have developed a resistance...
you have to add sugar to your ACV and a drop of dish soap and it works ..how on earth did you get such huge fruit flies in Canada in the USA they are tiny
I don't have plants at all and have a random infection, no fruits or vegetables at all.
RED WINE MIXED WITH SIMPLE SYRUP WORKS AMAZINGLY.
Thanks! Will give it a try next time
FF to 2:00
Just heard Braggs isn’t the same since the company was bought by an investment group and celebs 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
The Vinegar didnt work because you didnt add dish soap, the soap makes the flys sink to the bottom of the vinegar which makes them drown. Plus your holes are to big, they fly back out.
Some sort of fruit pulp with water. You're welcome!
it might sound gross but urine works great
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Really..i do this and the sugar and the dishsoap And they are still everyplace...i know the bastard came in on bannanas..been fighting them for a year!!!
13 minutes of how to NOT get rid of fruit flies
Try cleaning your drain pipes out
The mixture doesn't work for me. Too much vinegar, too much water, not enough dish soap, or not enough sugar? I'm frustrated! Is there a correct measurement?
I've had fantastic luck with mixing barbecue sauce and or honey with a bit of any type of vinegar. I also am testing orange juice to see the response. Good Luck
oh and I warm it up to allow the sugars to combine with other ingredients better.
WHY DO YOU SOAK SEEDS
Those are not fruit flys there drain flys theres a killer liquid for them online.
These traps have done nothing for me ! They are still multiplying
apple cider vinegar + dishwash soap doesn't work..
The fruit is gonna not work without a way for them to die
The fly flew in front the camera and I thought it was in my house lol😅
I'm not sure if I have fruit flies or gnats. It's probably both. But they are driving me insane. I already use yellow sticky traps. They are a lifesaver. I have Katchy units and the couple of other off-brand zappers around. But, just watched this video while in bed. I jumped out of the bed and went to the kitchen and set up 3 traps. LOL. I did something a little different than what you did. I will keep you posted. Hopefully I see lots of dead bugs tomorrow. :) and yeah... ACV never works!
Love it! I'm curious to know how your experiment goes and hope you win the battle of the fruit flies!!! They are definitely a pain in the a$$
@@The_IndoorGardener It was a total fail so far. I was surprised. Those dang things are always around!!
I left 3 bowls - one with mushy banana in water, one with some old wine, one with a bad onion (since I saw that they liked it). And I left 3 yellow sticky traps around the kitchen, and one over in the tomatoes waiting on the table. THERE WAS NOT ONE IN ANY OF THAT STUFF. Maybe the smell had not festered enough yet. Yet, they were out to say good morning to me when I came downstairs. This means war!
The little demons!!!! I used tomato seeds/pulp in the jar I used. @Bthinks mentioned they had success with kombucha, it might be worth a try.
@@The_IndoorGardener I didn't have any fermenting tomato Gunk on hand last night so I was just trying something. But when I get home tonight I will make it a point to save some seeds just for this purpose. LOL!
You next step is to clean the area the flies are infesting. Remove sources of food and areas for them to reproduce, like sink drain catches and trash bins. Clean your trash bin every night, make sure no dishes left in sink, and keep sink clean. You also need to make sure your towels are clean, as females lay eggs in not only fruit left on the counter but on filthy kitchen towels as well. You will often see the fruit flies having sex on your towels too. Wash with alcohol and sanitize with hot water.
Cant understand a word--too fast...no info
Ripe food is what humans have eaten for all time. Never heard of the cave man battling fruit flies.
Why are you whispering? You're doing a public video. What's the secret?
She finally starts getting to the point at 3:00.
Why is your video backward? You have your wedding ring on your right hand and you turned the lid on the little jars the wrong way to close them. And at the beginning the letters H2O were backwards; later they were right.
OMG!!! GET TO THE POINT!!
get to the point
Yap,Yap,Yap,you bore me to death,you don't even know you need to put soap in the vinegar.
This lady talk too much.... boring
That's enough, "wanna be" drama queen!
This is what worked for me:
@carikshawn4201
@carikshawn4201
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@GuysPestSolutions GOOD AFTERNOON and I LOVE YOU. I used Ant and Roach Killer by EcoSmart and it is an Organic Insecticide. I sprayed my sink and bathroom as soon as I got off listening to you which was around noon yesterday. I didn't turn on the water in any sink and resprayed the drains before I went to bed as well and I DO NOT HAVE ONE FLYING GNAT ANYWHERE. This morning I boiled water and poured it down the drains and before I go to bed this evening I'm going to spray again and will probably do it every few days just to be safe. YOU BE WELL and from now on you are MY friend...those little creatures were everywhere and I was planning to day to put off a Hot Shot bomb and now I don't have to. I live in Houston by the way so sure hope others read this. Today is July 28th, 2023.