With the arrival of good weather and heat, without knowing how, fruit flies reappear to invade our kitchens and pantries. Given the situation, we get all the ills of thinking that for four long months we will not be able to get rid of them.
For this reason, we are going to give you a series of recommendations that will help you keep kitchen flies at bay, before they become a plague.
If we take into account that these animals are also known as vinegar flies, we will deduce that the best trap we can prepare to hunt them must contain vinegar. We are going to tell you a couple of variants that can be prepared with the following formula:
The juice you have prepared is very attractive to flies. If you put it on a plate or in a bowl, you will see how they will drink from it.
When they come to taste that ‘nectar of the gods’, the toxicity of the soap will kill them. And, if you don’t kill them, they will slip and fall into the ‘death pool’ and drown in it.
Put the poisonous juice in a glass or any other container that is slightly elevated. Make a piece of paper or cardboard, shaped like a coffee filter, with a small hole in the middle so that flies can enter.
The grace of this method is that the insects will enter, but they will not know how to get out.
If you have a special sensitivity towards animals, whatever they may be, and you are not capable of killing even a fly (literally), there is one last trick, which is to suck them up with a handheld vacuum cleaner and release them far away.
If you detect that flies are coming out of the drain hole, add a good amount of bleach or ammonia diluted with water (alert with fumes) and cover all the holes. This will create a toxic and corrosive cloud that will kill all (or almost all) of the flies that live in the kitchen sink pipes.
If you don’t want flies to come, don’t call them with your actions. Depending on the habits you have, you will encourage the proliferation of fruit flies in your kitchen. For this reason, it is necessary to take into account some simple measures to avoid attracting them even more.
That being said, if there have always been fruit flies in your kitchen, we have to be realistic, you won’t be able to avoid having a fly around there. The quantity, more or less abundant, will be decided by you with your actions.
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