How to Make A Fruit Fly Trap at Home

Robert James
Pest Control Technician

Fruit flies can surely cause you too much pain and stress in your kitchen, however with an excellent trap; you will be startled on how fast they will disappear. What you should do is to toss something that is rotting, it will work, and you will be surprised. Try this efficient remedy to banish them from your kitchen altogether. Apart from homemade fruit fly traps, you can as well use apple cider trap and other ready-made traps.

Homemade Fruit Fly Trap

Materials you require to make fruit fly trap

  • Plastic wrap
  • Bait
  • A container
  • Rubber band
  • Any tool that is pointy

Steps to follow

  • Put bait in the bottom of the container
  • Cover top using plastic wrap
  • Use rubber band to make sure its secure
  • Poke flies so that flies must not get inside
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Apple Cider Vinegar Trap For Fruit Flies

Homemade fruit fly trap using Apple Cider Vinegar

Before panicking regarding your fruit fly intrusion, you can begin using an easy trap together with several apple cider vinegars. Because apple cider vinegar is from fermented apples, fruit flies will not defy the ascent of fermentation. It's a dream drink which they will not be able to resist. Just head the vinegar in advance so as to release more of its irresistible aroma.

What you will require

  • A piece of ripe or rotten chose one of them
  • A mason jar or anything like that
  • A drop of dish soap
  • A funnel which you can make it by yourself
  • Apple cider vinegar, around half a cup

Procedure

At first, warm up a half cup of apple cider vinegar until it's boiling and pour it into the jar, and it simply needs to be profound enough so that the flies will be drawn.

Secondly, add one or two drops of dish soap. This will help break the surface tenseness of the liquid.

Hence, the flies will not just sit on top and fly away when they are completed.

On top of that, roll up a piece of paper and also put it inside the mouth of the jar to form an improvised funnel and tape it in place. Conversely, the flies will walk into the jar with the aim of getting into the vinegar but will unable to get out resulting into drowning.

In case you think you want to add a little temptation, then drop in a red piece of fruit and let it breakdown. Assuming they do not drown put the entire thing in the freezer for 20 minutes. You don't require removing the old contents in case you need to use the trap once again since the view is dreadfully unappealing.

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Ready Made Fruit Fly Trap

You can as well try manufactured fruit fly traps that have proven to be valid to many people. They are designed specifically to entice or tempt fruit flies through the unique food-based liquid allure. These traps are not only useful but also secure when used around food since they have no poisonous chemicals. Examples are further discussed below.

  • TERRO Fruit Fly Trap

  Description

This is the fastest acting means to eliminate fruit flies in a very secure and proficient manner. It traps the flies by using food-based liquid lure which is not poisonous at all. If the flies get inside the trap, they cannot manage to get away to keep on multiplying and breeding.

You can as well try manufactured Fly Trap that have proven to be valid to many people. Click the image below to purchase the Fly Trap:

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  • Flyfix Fruit Fly Trap

Description

This blue or white trap is not only attractive, but its unique original design efficiently and firstly lure in flytraps as it traps them, once the funnel allows flies to get in, they won't be able to exit.

You can purchase it by clicking the image below;

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Advantages of Fly fix trap

  • It is easy to use
  • Once set, it instantly begins catching fruit flies
  • It has three color options
  • Very attractive

All the best ways have been mentioned and discussed above, so do not allow these troublesome pests get out of control, eliminate them with all the available and fast acting fruit flies traps contemplated above.

If you apply them, mostly near the breeding source, you will realize that they have decreased in number. Just place these traps in areas where fruit flies are mainly spotted like, near garbage storage places and kitchen sinks, behind kitchen counters and near unrefrigerated vegetables as well as fresh fruit.

 

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