How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies

Take out the food source and breeding areas. Fruit flies have a life-cycle of 10 days, giving them abundance of time to punish you for leaving moist, fermenting, organic material in which they may lay eggs. Most fly shut in ideas only serve to illustrate the flies’ progress in taking over your home, and some will themselves provide a breeding land. Sanitation is the only effective resolution. Address these frequent problem spots:

* Wash all dishes. Clear the drains.

* Launder the dishrags, or at least wash them thoroughly with soap, rinse them well and wring them dry before hanging them up (don’t
leave them in the sink).

* Store trash in a covered bin.

* Do not toss food garbage into waste-paper baskets.

* Cover your fruit bowl or store fruit you wish to keep in the refrigerator. Also, raisins, dates and prunes are favorite attractants.

* Discard all overripe fruit.

* Clean opened containers of fruit juice, fermented or vinegar products, for example ketchup, siracha or cooking wine. Seal them well.
Keep these in the refrigerator if possible.

* Wipe up crumbs and spills from your cabinets, counter and floor.

* Take out all trash–do not re-use the plastic liner garbage bags.

* Clean the seals of your refrigerator door, the top and under the fridge, especially clean the evaporation pan if it has one.

* Clean under and around your dishwasher and stove.

* Dump mop water, clean the pail, launder the mop rag.