Help! These stupid little gnat things are infesting our apartment, please help me kill them all forever!!!
They are making me lose my mind, seriously!!
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We had those too! Find where they are coming from first. Ours came from a pot we replanted and they were in the new soil. Our horticulture friend said to ideally put it outside, not water it for 2 weeks and put a strip of sticky fly paper to catch the adults. We just started that this weekend...
Before that, we'd set a small Tupperware dish of soapy water and that would attract some of them at least, and they get stuck and drown.
Good luck, they are SUPER annoying!
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Ugh. I pour a few tablespoons of red wine vinegar in a small tupperware dish and carefully stir in a drizzle of dish soap (not so vigorously that it suds) and set it near where the bulk of them are. It's fairly good attracting and catching them.
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@Emsmems: I hate them soooo much! We don't have any plants but most of them are usually in the kitchen. Although now they are in every freaking room of the house, dying in my coffee every morning and flying around me and LO while I breastfeed!
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@FutureMrsMcK: I hope white vinegar will work, that's all I've got! Thanks!
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Sounds awful! I've gotten them, probably from fruit I brought home and didn't wash right away. I did a similar trick to @FutureMrsMcK: - either wine or vinegar or something in a dish with a bit of dish soap. I also tried the trick with putting something sweet (wine was the best I found) in a glass with plastic wrap over the top, with a bunch of holes poked in it. They can get in but then can't fly back out. I also tried with a funnel. (Can you tell I really wanted them gone without using fly paper?)
They probably did come in from fruit in the kitchen-- and they are so gross and annoying!
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Do you have food out? Put everything in the fridge until they are all gone.
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If they are fruit flies, then white vinegar won't work! But apple cider vinegar is the bomb at catching fruit flies:
http://lifehacker.com/5635971/lifehacker-labs-capture-fruit-flies-with-a-cup-and-apple-cider-vinegar
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I have had ZERO luck with vinegar. We had great luck with OJ though. You put some in a bowl or something and then put cling wrap over the top with a couple holes.
We have an awful infestation in our kitchen that we've been fighting all summer.
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@loveisstrange: Did you try apple cider vinegar? We've had a few fruit fly incidents, but they cleared up within a few hours with apple cider vinegar!!
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Have you figured out where they are coming from? We had that issue last summer and my husband realized they were breeding in our outdoor trash can and coming in through the garage. Once we hosed out the trash can they disappeared!
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@mrbee: Yes, I used apple cider vinegar. Not one.
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@loveisstrange: Ah yah, they don't sound like fruit flies then. If you try heated apple cider vinegar and that doesn't attract them, then that feels pretty conclusive to me!
Could they maybe be drain flies?
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White wine works very well.
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@mrbee: what are drain flies?
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@Jennimac: they look kinda look fruit flies but a bit "moth-ier" and live in your drain.
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I had this issue and nothing I tried worked, just time unfortunately. I tried the white vinegar thing and got NUTHIN'! Darn gnatty things are SO. ANNOYING. So I feel ya.
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@mrbee: oh yuck! How do you get rid of those? How do you get them?
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@Jennimac: Some good tips here!
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@mrbee: thanks! That's quite gross to think about!
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We get them too
take a bowl and fill the bottom with balsamic vinegar. Take clear seran wrap and very tightly seal the bowl. With a fork poke a few small holes in the plastic and leave it where they are the heaviest. The flies are attracted to the vinegar and get in the holes but can't get out.
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We have them too! Bought some corn from the farmers market and they came with them. They got attracted to the gunk in our sink and hung around even after the corn was gone. DH pours two pots of boiling hot water down the drains every other day and then a baking soda/vinegar mix to wash away all food residue. We also use apple cider vinegar in bowls covered in Saran Wrap with holes in the top to trap them. It's working pretty well!
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We've got a fruit fly infestation right now too! Left some fruit rinds in an open garbage can for a week and couldn't figure out where the source of the fruit flies were coming from. We've got red wine vinegar/soap traps all over the house but they are still flying around
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This is what we did. Got an empty water bottle or soda bottle and cut the top neck part off. Well cut where the neck meets the fat part of the bottle. Turn it upside down so it sits on top of the bottle. It's like a funnel made from the bottle if you get what I mean. Then fill the bottom of the bottle with apple cider vinegar and they pour in.
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