Love Scrappy's response. BTW, you need to put all fruit in the fridge. That will help them from staying in the house while you trap them.

A glass of cider vinegar covered in plastic wrap with a couple of holes poked in it has always worked for me. And is not stinky (unless the vinegar smell is something you don't care for).

Ugh, a friend's house burned down yesterday and, while everyone is safe thank god, they lost everything. They've had a rough couple of years and I just feel so bad for her. They have family to stay with and insurance but, god, how horrible. Plus, it's made me really worry about the wiring in my house.

Oh, lisah, that's awful.

Oh no! I'm sorry, lisah.

lisah, how awful for your friends.

I still feel the terror of the day our next door neighbor's house burned and we didn't even suffer. I can't even imagine how that must feel.

Strength and rebuilding ~ma to them.

A glass of cider vinegar covered in plastic wrap with a couple of holes poked in it has always worked for me.

I was totally ready for this to work during my last fruit fly invasion but not one of the little buggers cooperated. Getting rid of the pineapple was the only solution in the end.

Oh, yeah, you have to get rid of the fruit that is attracting them too.

Bob's family's house burned down when he was a kid and his folk's say the hardest part was just remembering all of the things they lost so they could file a claim to adequately replace them. Plus, there's all the stuff that you can't ever replace--like old letters and art. I know my friend who lost her place had a huge cookbook collection. She will be able to rebuild that eventually but, still, it won't be the same.

I've attracted plenty of flies with fruit, but never trapped them. They're just useful in my kitchen for starting the problem, not resolving them. Vinegar is my go to.

Lisah, that's horrible. Another reminder to insure my shit--the awfulness would be barely mitigated, but any mitigation in such an awful situation, damn. I hope they put things back in as much order as possible as soon as possible.

Ugh, I just told the short version of a relative's experience to help me explain why I had Vera Wang to give to Goodwill, and I have depressed myself tremendously. This is the cousin whose mother surreptitiously [triggery for reproductive-related issues, for just life related issues--it's awful] terminated her daughter's first attempted to-term pregnancy under false pretenses because she saw it as a no-win situation for everyone, least of all the putative grandchild, and the next time around when said cousin managed to evade stealth syringes of abortifacient, her mother tried unsuccessfully to get legal custody of the child and failed, but thankfully the father did not, so the child is being raised halfway around the world, to everyone's relief.

My cousin's mother should be 100% the bad guy in that scenario, but...cuz is really really messed up, and that was proven right when she did go to term with a child who was born addicted to god knows what and with significant birth defects. Problem is, said cousin wants to get pregnant again, because they took the first one away. Ten years ago, which I guess makes us the lucky ones?

Awful scenarios are awful.

Oh lisah, how hard for them to lose everything like that.

And ita, how tragic for all involved.

ita, damn.

lisah, the place burned down due to faulty wiring? Oh no!

Over-ripe bananas worked as well for my mom for attracting gnats as vinegar, but once they were trapped the vinegar drowned them whereas the fruit provided a breeding ground that had to be disposed of. I vote vinegar.

Of course hers ultimately turned out to be fungus flies coming from a bad pipe, so the solution involved plumbers tearing up the kitchen floor.