I just wanted to let you know that, after much scheming and strategizing against the enemy, we have conquered the fruit flies!
Many of you offered wonderful advice, but the war tactic that has proved most effective is this:
Take out a glass. Half-fill it with apple cider vinegar. The strong smell will attract the fruit flies. Put some dish soap on your finger and just swoosh it around in the vinegar. This (obviously, as my husband says) breaks the surface tension of the vinegar. That means that the fruit flies can no longer land on it. So... they drown! We have plastic wrap over the top with fruit-fly-size holes in it. This is so they fly in and then can't get out. They fly around for a while until they have to land, and then... they drown!!!
Happy hunting all you fellow fruit-fly-haters!
Natasha
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Do to the power outage we suffered through before we left - a few dishes didn't get washed (the pump wouldn't work so thus no running water) well after a weekend on teh counter our FruitFly non issue is now a much more serious issue - well problem. aha.
It's like we opened up some sort of breading program for them.. aha.
Ciao
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