How to get rid of drain flies in your home with a nontoxic bug trap? First let’s discuss about the most common natural home solution: apple cider vinegar and dish soap to kill fruit flies. There is a big problem with these solutions: they don’t work very well. Additionally your room will smell very bad!
Urban legend that doesn’t work very often: Create a Trap Using Stale Wine! Have any stale wine left over that you aren’t going to drink? Put it to good use by converting it into a homemade gnat trap. It’s very similar to the apple cider vinegar trap. First, pour some wine into a container then place the container next to the problem area. The goal of this remedy is to use the scent of the wine to attract the fruit flies into the container. The flies will immediately drown once they make contact with the liquid surface. Adding some dish soap will also help with this trap. You can also use a wine bottle as a container. Beer and any other type of beverages that rely on fermentation will work just as well. You may have greater success with beverages that have more of a fruity aromatic scent.
But the problem is that, most of the times, this method doesn’t work, fruit flies will show up again and you will also have a problem with the bad smell from this “natural” solution. Vinegar is a very potent and pungent liquid – it’s just not fun having that available in the house. Especially if there are kids around. Do you want dead flying insects floating around on their kitchen counter, table, bar, or restaurant?
Nontoxic bug trap to get rid of fruit flies in restaurant that works? Try Eon Luxe right now! UV light attracts fruit flies, mosquitoes, drain moths. When the flying pests see ultraviolet light, they are naturally lured in the direction of the source of UV rays. Eon Luxe Solutions Ultraviolet light lures the flies over a 320 square foot area and works best in a closed, dark room. Eon Luxe Solutions Pest Vortex uses vacuum action to collect tiny flying insects and pull them into the removable retention cage. Once collected, pests are prevented from escaping by the whisper-quiet fan with continuous operation then landing them onto the no-escape glue pad. Discover more details on https://www.amazon.com/Eon-Luxe-Solutions-Fruit-Trap/dp/B07Z2W76Y8.
Fruit flies prevention tip (it’s easier to prevent!) : Clean the fruit you bring in: This is going to be tough to hear, but if fruit flies keep getting in somehow, it’s possible they’re using you to get in. Don’t feel guilty, you were an unwitting pawn in their master scheme. One way to prevent your dastardly foe from manipulating you for their own purposes yet again is to wash all the fruit you bring into the office as soon as you get in. Even if you bought your apple that morning, a fruit fly could’ve found it and snuck aboard at any point on your commute, even if it never left your bag. It’s not consciously trying to get into your office, but you bring it there and once it gets a look around, it settles in and lays eggs. So… wash your fruit when you bring it in! Easy peasy.
We are a husband and wife duo operating a small business in a small town just 30 minutes south of Boston in Pembroke, Massachusetts. We love hiking – in the above photo, we were at the Montezuma Castle. I love smoothies and Acai bowls, so there’s always a few organic bananas in my fruit bowl. No matter how clean I keep the house, a few fruit flies still find their way in my home buzzing around the bananas and other fruits. They are an annoyance! I tried using apple cidar vinegar and dish soap – and they work great, but the ACV has a very strong smell, and they just don’t look very nice in home…..And the kids have “accidentally” spilled them once or twice. Definitely not fun. Read additional info at Get rid of drain flies.