Hi /diy/ I have a problem with fruit flies, I've made some

clean your basement and throw away trash and rotten fruit and vegetables

>>953757
this

clean up and they'll be gone in a few days to a week

>>953757
thanks, but as far as I can see everything is clean

also no basement, just 1st floor flat

I'm worried that I may actually be breeding them in my traps

Once you have them, if you even have any water they can access, you'll have them for weeks. They eat shit that you wouldn't think of as a food source like cardboard and paper. And they chew pinhole sized holes through almost anything to get to real food.
I'd set out sticky strip fly traps, and make or buy some jug ones.

>All concrete IDF room, contractors left some cups in it for weeks during construction, got fruit flys bad, we cleaned the cups out and there was no other food, but there was an AC unit in there producing condensate. The door got put on and room sealed up, flys still around 3 weeks later. We took everything not bolted down out, some AV equipment on wheels, boxes of patch cables and rolls of cat6, and turned off the AC unit. Flies finally died out a couple of weeks later.

They could be breading in a water trap. Pour vinegar into every sink, bathtub, washer, and dishwasher drain and let it sit for awhile. Don't forget your dishwashers air valve/port on your kitchen sink.

Do what other posters said and clean then do this. Take a coke can cut it in half, mix in 1 part vinegar and 1 part dawn dish soap.see it out where they are most active. It will take a whIle but the flies will be attracted it the vinegar ans get stuck by the dawn, they will sink in the liquid and be dissolved by the vinegar.

>>953804
thanks, will try this

>>953804
Can confirm this works well, did it a while back with apple cider vinegar and dishwashing soap when my roommate let some bananas disintegrate on his shelf

Also, strip style fly traps hanging over your trash can work stupidly well

>>954282
Seconded. Apple cider vinegar and dish soap works very well.

If you have house plants they could be breeding in the soil. I had this problem myself recently and had to chuck a couple plants, they went away immediately after. You can try raising the acidity of the soil and shit, but found it easier to just chuck them. I'd have taken them outside for a week if it wasn't winter and seen if that would have fixed it, though.

>>954282
I had great success with a bowl of beer and a few drops of dish soap.

>>953804
>>954282
>>954748
>>954868
about to try this, can't afford to waste beer so will use vinegar with a bit of dishwashing soap

how deep does it need to be?

>>954780
no house plants

>>953796
>They could be breading in a water trap. Pour vinegar into every sink, bathtub, washer, and dishwasher drain and let it sit for awhile.

A pot of boiling water followed by a cup of bleach works far better than vinegar.

If they're drain flies I've killed millions of the little fucks over the years.

>>953759
Clean your sink.

>>955294
Not very deep at all, just enough that they'll sink in it.

I suggest apple cider vinegar (Or beer, never used that) over regular vinegar because the apple cider smells pretty strong, which attracts the flies to it while the dish soap breaks the surface tension so they sink