Fruit flies

Yes. I used this method and it worked. You can use a sweet liquid like orange juice, doesn't have to be vinegar

Fuck their boyfriends.

Ex Chelsea queen here living in Tampa. Good old fashioned bleach. I have a spray bottle of Clorox 2 (Green bottle) and spray it on them whenever they’re around. Pull out your fridge and stove and make sure you didn’t spill anything that attracted them. Get a covered trash bin and keep food debris in a shopping bag in the freezer until you throw it out. Make sure all your windows are closed, they may be from puddles forming or trash outside.

🤣 Aggressive Fruit Flies .......

That bottle trap does work, but you still need to find the source. Once I had those stupid traps all over the house and couldn't resolve it and was almost ready to give up and accept my new life with the fruit flies - then I finally found the bag of potatoes I'd put in a little-used cabinet. There is still a black mark in there, but no more flies, thank god.

I'm in Hell's Kitchen OP and have them too like crazy. This is new, It must be something related to the pandemic in NYC, it's the only explanation I can think of. I've even seen them in the elevator of my building and at my office.

Tell them the elevator is broken, and they have to use the stairs instead.

So NYC is turning into the Amityville Horror?

I usually use the vinegar traps - but then I had these small flies that didn’t want the vinegar and I couldn’t get rid of them. Bought this device on Amazon and put it on my counter. I always keep bananas on the counter in front of it. No smell, makes a nice nightlight, and I’ve only changed sticky cards like once every 3 months. Haven’t seen a bug since.

R8, everyone is home all the time, so there is more rubbish and rotting food in apartment buildings.

It's from the rotting corpses of all the fruits in Chelsea. This is what happens when gyms have lowered occupancy and indoor brunch goes the way of Barney's New York.

Still, better than the meth moths in Hell's Kitchen.

Close your legs, OP. That should also stop attracting the larger flies and prevent maggots from nesting in your mussy.

Hee, R2.

I was unfamiliar with that term until I met an old-school fag hag (loud, fun, in her 70s now) who referred to herself that way. ("I'm nobody's hag, bitch!") She and some of the other "flies" were regulars at some notorious gay spots in 1970s NYC. So it was a thing.

They make great pets.

I have a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol with some essential oil so it smells nice. Just spray it on them when they land, it takes time to get them all but cheap and effective.

Are you sure they're fruit flies and not drain flies?

Gentrol.

I'm in NYC, and it's the only thing that worked for me.

I tried bleach, vinegar, traps, sticky tape and on and on. No luck until this.

Invite Mike Pence over the flies will follow him out

Was your fruit when you bring it into the house. The flies are there because the eggs are on the fruit aready.

*wash

Uh oh

Demons, call your local Jesuits.

r21 This thread is making me HORNY AS HELLLL!!!!!!!

These worked and got rid of a lot of the damn flies, though not all of them.

I just use a vacuum cleaner. It's probably the most humane way since it seems they get killed almost instantly after getting sucked in. Or at least I haven't found a single fruit fly alive in my bagless vacuum cleaner's container.

Vinegar traps work for me. I enjoy seeing the bodies floating in the jar.

Sometimes, muck can build up in sink drains and disposals (especially on the underside of the rubber splash guard) and act as a food source. Clean all of these well, but avoid pouring undiluted bleach down the disposal side of the sink, as it can cause corrosion of the metal parts.

After various attempts with other gadgets and traps last year, what finally solved it, just this past February, was a $15.99 device from Target that plugs in the wall. I've seen it on the shelves there even recently. It lights up blue, so it makes a good nightlight now that the flies are more or less gone for over seven months now.

I never even bothered replacing the cartridge/trap, just used the one it came with.

It didn't take more than a few days or a fee weeks, can't remember exactly, until the flies were gone!

Well, I see an occasional one or two flies weekly or monthly, but I am extra careful now in making sure my rotting produce is sealed as I await my trip to the outside trash bin.

Leave out a cup of red wine and the will flock to it and drown

I had one apartment on the first floor and would get them every spring. I used to pour bleach down the drain in the kitchen. I moved to a second floor unit and have had no fruit flys in 7 years.

Friendly reminder, "fruit flies" is also a euphemism for annoying fag hags.

Buy one of these and hang it in the room where they're the worst (I assume the kitchen). They'll all be dead in short order.

R29, my mother used to do that. It worked.