How do fruit flies get in?

Fruit flies are built to find fermenting fruit. Through small, they can detect the smell of ripe fruits and vegetables from a good distance away. If there's a bowl of fruit on your kitchen counter, there's probably a fruit fly or two looking for a way into your home to get to it. read more

The little flies that frequently appear near unrefrigerated produce in your kitchen are probably fruit flies, which are sometimes called vinegar flies. They are extremely hard to get rid of, but if you use a multiphase plan of attack, you should be able to do it. Fruit flies can lay up to 500 eggs at a time near the surface of fermenting (ripening) foods or other organic materials. The entire life cycle from egg to adult takes only about eight to ten days so they proliferate with great rapidity. read more

To get rid of fruit flies fast, fill a tall jar, soda bottle, or vase halfway with sweet fruit fly bait, like overripe fruit, honey, juice, or soda. Roll and tape a piece of paper into a funnel and place it in the top of the container to let fruit flies get inside but not back out. read more