Our house has been overrun with fruit flies. Just when I think I have a handle on them, there's another influx. It doesn't help that I'm in the midst of preservation... apples, pears, tomatoes... My kitchen is a fruit fly's dream come true. 😜
It got bad enough G joined the battle. We cleaned all the kitchen surfaces, tucked fruit in the fridge, took out the garbage, and cleaned the sink drains.
And we made a ton of traps. Some have kombucha and some have apple cider vinegar. It's actually a batch I made years ago from apple peels/cores that had been used to make apple cider vinegar once before. The cores/peels still had so much juice in them, I couldn't throw them out! But the ACV ended up as something else, more alcohol scented and flavored. It's been sitting on the shelf and I haven't been able to bring myself to throw it out. Good thing I didn't! The flies like the vinegar best.
I tossed the kombucha traps and made all of them vinegar. Some have paper cones and some have plastic bags with holes poked in the top. The paper cones are winning right now.
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