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Pesky fruit flies

Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
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We've been inundated with a plague of tiny black flies which I think may be fruit flies?
Started off in my under-sink compost bin, despite if having a lid. I've emptied it, cleaned it thoroughly and put it back but the flies are now hovering around the bananas/apple bowl and horrors, three drowned in my glass of wine just now! I've never had so many in the house before.

Any suggestions on how to get rid of them please? Anybody else having this problem? 
North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Can you get rid of them!?
    I've used a Fly light with a sticky back to catch them. Was absolutely covered in them.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    @Lizzie27 there must be something else that is making the fruit flies come in. We use a cake cover over fruit when we bring them in. We also make different wines and find that even though we use the fermination locks we still get fruit flies caught...but they are caught.
  • Jenny-RJenny-R Posts: 43
    We had a lot of them in the kitchen a couple of years ago around the fruit bowl. I made a trap using an empty yogurt pot half filled with cider vinegar. You stretch cling film over the top secured with an elastic band and poke a few holes in. They get in but can’t get out again. I found bananas the worst fruit for attracting them.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks for your answers folks. I tried a trap using a tiny amount of left over wine plus orange squash near the bananas and caught a few. Went out into the porch just now to put apple cores in the compost bin and found lots inside, even though I'd scrubbed that out very thoroughly with hot water/washing up liquid and bleach. How on earth did they get in there.

    It's got to be the hot weather lately as we haven't had this problem before. Weird.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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