Damn fruit flies! how do i kill them?

[Abaddon]

Yes, but what do i do with the six-foot killer-mantids?

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

10 foot turantulas!

As for the problem of lack of sugary drinks, get a cup, fill it up 1/3 of the way with sugar and the rest of the way with water. Should attract them like a klaxon.

 

[Taliesin]

Leave the last bit of a bottle of wine out, uncorked, or pour it out into a dish if you like. It doesn't take much, it works like a charm, and the poor blighters die happy.

 

[Perfection]

Vegatables!

 

[Abaddon]

eh perf? what do you want me to to? Bombard them with peas? swipe them from the air with a carrot?

 

[BCLG100]

FIRE!!!!!!!!!! kill them with fire!!!!!

 

[Abaddon]

Spray can + lighter = fun

 

[LLXerxes]

Use fly-tape. They sell them in little tubey thingies, where you pull it out and it forms kinda a spiral of sticky stuff to catch insects on. You can wave it around like a lightsaber and catch them till the banana's grow (pun intended). You also get a little thing to hang them by the ceiling by.

 

[MobBoss]

The only real way to get rid of them is remove their food source. Toss out anything remotely resembling a fly food source.....remove any exposed fruit/foods....clean out all your trash containers...make sure there are no moldy clothes or anthing else moist laying around.

The fruit fly lifespan is such that once you get rid of all their food supply, they will naturally just die off very quickly.

 

[BCLG100]

still not nearly as much fun as fire.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

still not nearly as much fun as fire.

But fire will burn the plants.

But yeah, pretty much nothing is as good as fire.

 

[eyrei]

The only real way to get rid of them is remove their food source. Toss out anything remotely resembling a fly food source.....remove any exposed fruit/foods....clean out all your trash containers...make sure there are no moldy clothes or anthing else moist laying around.

The fruit fly lifespan is such that once you get rid of all their food supply, they will naturally just die off very quickly.

Once you do that, open the place up during a cold night for a few hours...

 

[Bluemofia]

Hmm...

Go and get another spider pet.
Get more venus fly traps.
Go and vacume them up. (fun )
Get a squirt-gun/spray-bottle and shoot them around to mess with their wings and then chuck them outside.
Mountain dew thing with soap and alcohol... Then when you think you have enough, drop a match in there!

 

[Souron]

Use fly-tape. They sell them in little tubey thingies, where you pull it out and it forms kinda a spiral of sticky stuff to catch insects on. You can wave it around like a lightsaber and catch them till the banana's grow (pun intended). You also get a little thing to hang them by the ceiling by.

This is the most sensible solution as far as I know.

 

[skadistic]

The problems with traps is they don't kill the larva. The larva live in the soil and feed on roots. Unless you make the soil unhinhabital you will not get rid of them. It only takes two flies not to fall into a trap to multiply ten fold. Freezing them wont work as a larva can stay dorment for a long time.

 

[Rhymes]

Just clean the hell up!!!!! This gets rid of them...

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

The problems with traps is they don't kill the larva. The larva live in the soil and feed on roots. Unless you make the soil unhinhabital you will not get rid of them. It only takes two flies not to fall into a trap to multiply ten fold. Freezing them wont work as a larva can stay dorment for a long time.

Yes, but by elimating breeding adults = No more larvae until the larvae that were around already mature. And if you get those fruitflies before they mature, no more fruitflies!

 

[Hornblower]

Folimat (I'm not sure what it sell as in the UK),
Lightly spray it on all your indoor plants and soils. It repels the insects. As a result they will not return to that habitat to breed/lay eggs etc. You aren't killing the bugs as they will die at the end of their short life cycle (a fruit fly is about 4 days?) but you are stopping the next generation. This will result in a bugless and pesticide free house in about 2 weeks. The repelling qualities last about 7 days in a humid environment so it may take 2 applications. It is a chemical that is toxic enough to repel bugs but is considered non-toxic to humans as long as you wash the treated plants before consuming them.

 

[Tatran]

I've had this problem for years,until last summer when
there wasn't a fruit-fly plague,because I didn't buy any
melons.One time I did buy a melon and that same evening
I had those nasty little bastards flying all around.
During a shopping in the supermarket I also noticed fruit-flies
around the melons,so to me it's the main cause if you have
a fruit-fly attack.

 

[storealex]

Buy a revolver and challenge their leader to a duel.