fruit flies

Real sticky paper. They land, they're stuck.

Something like this: http://www.pestmall.com/flywebgluepad.html
You can also look for glueboards? Ask someone in a hardware store.

usually when i have a problem, i pray about it and hope that God can give me guidance for resolution......

Man do i feel ignored!!!!!! I have fruit flies by my sink and man are they driving me crazy! The weird thing is there is no food by the sink. I have cleaned and recleaned EVERTHING. I threw away my sponges, my dishrags, bleached the little holder at the bottom of the sink. The little MFers are just hovering around a little shelf that is above my sink. There is NO food there....i think they are just trying to get me institutionalized.

We don't have alcohol in the house so i bought some cheapie Kroger cooking wine and put that in a little bowl.....nothing. So, my daughter suggested we fill it to the brim..... Well, these little jerks just sat perched on the edge of the bowl like it's a freaking birdbath! I saw one, ONE friggin' fly in there....and get this, when i went to show my husband, IT WAS GONE! now those crazy little jerks are just toying with my emotions....

i was going nuts with them as i was doing dishes this morning, so i dumped the wine. I went and got some tape, that blue painters tape is all i had on hand. I sprinkled it with sugar, (yeah silly, i know, i dont know what else to do) and i taped it from one cabinet to the other. Hoping that these things would fly onto it and just get stuck....well....they didn't. They dissipated, but only to return later. i think the bright blue blinded them or they were like i said....screwing with my emotions!!!

i don't like guns, do not own a gun, do not believe in finding answers through violence.....

but right about now, i wish i had a gun. A gun with little itty-bitty bullets... and a little itty-bitty scope thingy on it, and i would shoot those little MFers dead..........



ok.....i am going to go calm down. This stress has probably spiked my sugar, i need to go shoot up some insulin.

Get the bleach! We began pouring it down the drain every few days toward the beginning of Summer & the little buggars are finally gone. You'll notice that they get fewer & fewer each time you hit the drain with the bleach. Then poof. Gone.

but... they are not coming from the drain, at least i dont think they are. They are not on the sink area but above it.

well....that might be cuz the little buggers have wings huh...lol

Trust me on this. I thought the same thing.

Christopher from North End was at our home one evening & I was apologizing and saying that I didn't know where they were coming from (I thought it was because I was leaving the back door open too much). And he said..."Oh. Those are drain flies" And I said, but I don't think they can be coming from the drain.

Long story, short....

He knew what he was talking about. I guess because you don't actually see them come out of the drain, it's hard to imagine that that's what they are..... But that's what they are!

Now, get the bleach!

you know, i thought the exact same thing about the back door. i read up on drain flies, even saw some wonderful family portraits of them, larvae included. They said that they stay where water stays stagnant and i kept thinking to myself that i dont leave water sitting there in/around the sink. It also mentioned a lot about the pipes.

So, i looked under the sink, like really wayyy back there. Well, there is a leak. i look under there everyday, but just to get my cleaning supplies and/or trash bags from the front area. So, i am guessing that this leak is a part of the problem..... My husband is going to be sooooo thrilled to hear about this when he gets home from school tonight...

It's good that you found the leak. It could have done some damage to the floor beneath the sink. However, we were told that it has more to do with the gook/food bits that settle in the drain pipes. One thing we thought about was to remove the trap & perhaps clean it out. We never did actually do this...since the bleach seemed to do the trick. But that was "plan B".

My husband was the "Chief Bleach-Pourer" in the house....and I told him about this thread. He said to tell you that you need to pour A LOT of bleach each time you do it. Something like a cup full (perhaps more). He suggested you go get one of those big bottles of bleach. Is it a gallon? (it's definitely close to a gallon...the one with the handle).

He reaffirmed that it's probably going to take a few times to kill everything. I guess there is larvae that continues to hatch after you've killed the flying ones. So that's why the repeat bleaching is necessary.

Good luck.

What's up with the bag of water that you see hanging over doorways at Mexican restaurants. Is that for fruit flies or is that to ward off the "Chupacabra".

Pour about 3" of vinegar into a quart jar- Stick 1/2 of a banana into the jar. Make a cone out of a sheet of paper(8 1/2 x 11) with the bottom hole of the cone about 1". Put it into the jar. The little buggers go in for a snort and can't get out!

I tried that, they sit on the paper thus the need for sticky paper. There are better baits. See my reply on top of page 2.