The mouth piece of the water bottle has to touch the water, if it doesn’t the trap will not work. Might take days just to catch one. Just don’t let the water go above the mouth piece part, the trap has to look like a funnel
Thank you so much Rebecca! I had what it seemed like an infestation in my kitchen. I placed 3 of the bottles around my kitchen. As soon as I placed them I saw the flies starting to get attracted to it. After 2 hours I check the bottom of the bottles and half of them were already there! I left it during the night and I just woke up and we are flies free. Thank you ❤
Made a cup of coffee with sweet creamer and didn't know I had a couple drops of my coffee on the counter. I went back to the sink and there's was a bunch apparently drinking the coffee. They'll eat it drink anything apparently. I know they are hungry because I've been depriving them of food.
I tried this & it worked! The first day it caught one…then day two I checked my trap and saw several…so happy I tried this very simple, yet effective method!
*Dont use this methode anymore! You should not Kill!!!!* There is a better wy, get a cup or something and put in a fruit like a apple or cherry or some other fruit, make sure fruit is juicy, and put it in, then above aluminium foil, close it and make some holes, you can also use another foil than aluminium, then put it to the kitchen, dont add any soap or so, you dont need soap, and then use paper or something for the next day, be fast and put it on top of the cup when there is no fruif fly above and bring them outside and let them go fly away!!!*
@@BelieveInJesusChrist. Come on, fruit flies are literally household pests, and they barely live for two months. Their own insignificant lives dont even mean anything to them, get over yourself and your soppy behaviour
Thank you so much!! I had a ton of fruit flies because I put old bananas in the bin, stupid I know, but literally all of them are gone! For what it's worth, I actually had more success without the "trap" element. I just used bowl and it worked much better than the cut bottle
@@RHathemomentcan you use regular vinegar? I have literally EVERY kind of vinegar BUT apple cider I have rice vinegar red wine , balsamic, and white do you know if I could sub with any of those? I might just try plain but I did get rid of the whole container of cuties there was one bad one and they just came out of nowhere gross 😂😂
@@emilystubbs5650 thank you so much!! I’ve been doing other stuff and I got rid of ALL the bananas I had that helped but I’m going to try the rice one tonight, I appreciate your response ♥️
Drain flies can be removed by putting 1/4 cup of salt, 1/4 cup of baking soda (mix these two) in your drain, then add 1 cup of vinegar. Stopper the drain and flush with boiling water the next day. You may need to repeat this a couple of days. I usually add a squirt of Dawn or Lysol to the drain, after the dry ingredients, before the vinegar.
I'm no engineer nor water person thing, but can't you just put window mosquito blockers net thing inside the drain? Or will it block the water in a way?
@@LeoBoxGaming I don't know what window mosquitoe blockers are...so you mean a screen? In theory a small enough screen would work, but household drains have drain stoppers in the middle. So you can fill the sink with water. So I don't know how you would adfix the screen securely.
Crazy how well it worked. As some others said leave space between the bottle top and the amount of apple cide you put in. Also I happend to add allot of soap so you’d have to wait for bubbles to go down before and flys start going in so use the amount of soap recomended. All in all it cleared my room of fruit flies
what part of the video is that? The only song I hear is used at the beginning of the package and that's "tubular bells" from The Exorcist soundtrack (Exorcist theme)
This did nothing for me. But what did wonders and got rid of all of them was this sticky trap that you put on your windows. They are clear so it doesn't look ugly or noticeable but man they really work! Ive caught all my fruit flies and some moths and flies
Created this as shown. 4 hours later no takers - they're still swarming my head!
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If you do that and it do not help so much, it may not be fruit-flies but a similar looking insect with a similar life cycle living in and around indoor plants, they lay their eggs in the soil and can be very hard to get rid of, but you can buy maggots that you but in the plant soil that eat those eggs and stop the cycle.
OK, just finished making this and setting it out....well see. However, I don't see how it's any different than those little traps with the holes on the top with apple cider inside? I use those but it only catches a few everyday, not even close to all of them
I use paper or plastic cups and put in apple juice and a little alcohol. Then a stretch Saran Wrap over the top and secure with an elastic band. I'll poke 4 or 5 holes with a toothpick. Or use any small amount of fruit of any kind alone in the cup..
Needs to be some sort of fruit or sugar based liquid. Apple is a fruit and rice is not so they will not be attracted to rice vinegar. You can also do fruit juice if available
Well I’m trying this and it’s not working. They were on top of the bottle but did not go in. Not sure if it’s any different but I used Ajax instead of Dawn.
It's supposed to be above the fluid level, otherwise the flies can't fly in. She just wasn't paying attention to what she was doing because she was making a video for TV.
@@destinyandpurpose The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one. You make it into funnel so they won't be able to get out. She even says that in the video. Something tells me that your "destiny and purpose" is trolling people.
How many fruit flies have you caught? My point is that cutting the bottle is not absolutely necessary for it to work. And as for "something tells me" you really should not listen to that voice, it has caused you to make a false statement that appears to be ignorance at its finest.@@GrantSR
Don't let the neck of the inverted bottle touch the liquid as in the video! as the fruit flys can't get in past the liquid leave at least 10 centimeters gap 👍😊
Those flies eat meat as well! I forget to put some leftover fried chicken in the refrigerator and several days later those things laid eggs all over my leftover fried chicken as I saw their little maggots wriggled all over the leftover fried chicken! Those things eat anything!
Exactlyyy dude. I lost my patience when i ate a cereal and one of those fckrs flew insidee. Since then i've been hunting them using a broom and baygon spray if u know what that is. but there were still alot of them, so i've been searching on how to make a trap for them😅😂
Ok, so for the past 3 years every summer I get the pleasure of going to war with these little bastards. The apple cider vinegar method does work but there are some important things to understand. 1) Flies only go into these traps if they have no other choice. No other option for food. Gotta keep kitchen, trash can, and drains crazy clean. 2) Clean the trap daily and put fresh vinegar in it. Otherwise, it will stop working. Also, not a bad idea to swap out baits from time to time. I found fruit juice to also perform exceptionally well. 3) Try to avoid putting loose food in your trash can if you can. Stuff things that are likely to draw flies into large air tight storage bags and then toss in the trash can. Makes starving them out much easier if you're already keeping the kitchen clean. If you can't keep loose food out of the trash can, double bagging your trash so any that may have started breeding in your trash can get trapped inside and can't get out to infest the outside trash can. This is important because if they infest the outside can they will just come into the house from outside. Especially when the trash is collected weekly. Hope this helps.
You're wrong. I left some vinegar (no water) with a drop of soap out on my counter, the next day I counted 30 dead fruit flies. Out of maybe one to two hundred that formed when I went on vacation and left fruit in my garbage can. I started leaving out 2 traps and they were all gone in a few days.
I have traps with apple cider vinegar and dish soap and the fruit fly doesn't get near it the fruit fly has been living longer than fifty days four months I tried spraying it with my bleach cleaner and it didn't work and it has been growing I'm worried because I have a baby guinea pig scratching his ear there is no way it could be laying eggs because there is no other fruit flys just one so I don't why the fruit fly would be bothering him
I think maybe you should Google "fruit fly" images. Fruit flies don't show up one at a time; it's usually 100 or more. These guys look like gnats; only 2 or 3 millimeters long. You might be looking at a house fly.
@@curiouscharacter1 there was a infestation in my house and I was spraying a bunch of them with bleach cleaner and it was killing them the female was the only one left and I knew it was a female because it kept laying eggs in my guinea pigs ears my boyfriend started cleaning my guinea pigs ears with peroxide and cotton swabs and she was flying above the cage watching him and then it started flying around my house from room to room I saw it inside my bathroom one day on the wall above my toilet and I sprayed with the bleach cleaner and it didn't die that guinea pig died that is why it wasn't flying around the cage anymore we got a new guinea pig and it wasn't bothering this one because it was the only one inside my house three weeks ago it started flying in my boyfriends face and he killed it and I do know what fruit flies look like I had a big infestation going on in my house
Didn't work AT ALL! Frikin flies where sitting right above it and didn't even think of going near it.. I gave up on this after 3 days.. Not a single one :((
Any dishwashing liquid will work. Just don't overdo it. The idea is to break the surface tension so that once landing on the surface the little bugs sink at once before they have a chance to escape drowning by flying away.
You don't have to kill them. You can put a slice of lemon inside a tall glass (the taller the better) and lean a piece of card (to block them from seeing you when you catch them) on one side of the glass. When they are in the glass, slowly surreptitiously cover the glass with them inside while standing behind the card / from their blind spot and then release them outside your home. it helps to have a narrow top of the glass and to partially cover so there's less time used to cover the glass and for them to notice you. Try not to have them notice you otherwise of course they will learn the dangers. Try to take as many of your fruit flies in each evacuation for the same reason of less of them seeing the trap strategy. Clean your bin! Easy win. Do this at the beginning of the season so it doesn't become a problem.
Guess what doesn't work? No, come on...guess. I've tried every method for this including store-bought traps using soap and vinegar (didn't know that's all it was). NOPE! Tomorrow, I'm buying fly paper.
Works perfect!! I literally had about 50 fruit flys in my house and all were gone in 2 days. Thank you so much for this video!!
😂😂😂😂😂
this didnt work for me they just outside the plastic bottle
Wow nice I also had 50fruit flies 49 are gone and 1 is left.. it's hunting time.
The mouth piece of the water bottle has to touch the water, if it doesn’t the trap will not work. Might take days just to catch one. Just don’t let the water go above the mouth piece part, the trap has to look like a funnel
Worked extremely well for me! I had more than 4-5 times the number of flies shown in the video.
It works better if the mouth of the bottle isn't touching the solution. That way they can't fly out once they're in.
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Thank you so much Rebecca! I had what it seemed like an infestation in my kitchen. I placed 3 of the bottles around my kitchen. As soon as I placed them I saw the flies starting to get attracted to it. After 2 hours I check the bottom of the bottles and half of them were already there! I left it during the night and I just woke up and we are flies free. Thank you ❤
incredulous
Made a cup of coffee with sweet creamer and didn't know I had a couple drops of my coffee on the counter. I went back to the sink and there's was a bunch apparently drinking the coffee. They'll eat it drink anything apparently. I know they are hungry because I've been depriving them of food.
I tried this & it worked! The first day it caught one…then day two I checked my trap and saw several…so happy I tried this very simple, yet effective method!
*Dont use this methode anymore! You should not Kill!!!!* There is a better wy, get a cup or something and put in a fruit like a apple or cherry or some other fruit, make sure fruit is juicy, and put it in, then above aluminium foil, close it and make some holes, you can also use another foil than aluminium, then put it to the kitchen, dont add any soap or so, you dont need soap, and then use paper or something for the next day, be fast and put it on top of the cup when there is no fruif fly above and bring them outside and let them go fly away!!!*
@@BelieveInJesusChrist. bro there fruit flies it’s nothing personal. They’ve already killed them now just like how I am as well.
@@BelieveInJesusChrist.
Lol fly
@@BelieveInJesusChrist. can i use flamethrower
@@BelieveInJesusChrist. Come on, fruit flies are literally household pests, and they barely live for two months. Their own insignificant lives dont even mean anything to them, get over yourself and your soppy behaviour
Thank you so much!! I had a ton of fruit flies because I put old bananas in the bin, stupid I know, but literally all of them are gone! For what it's worth, I actually had more success without the "trap" element. I just used bowl and it worked much better than the cut bottle
Oh my goodness, same. Exact, same.❗😂 Bananas✨!
this dont work
@@RHathemomentcan you use regular vinegar? I have literally EVERY kind of vinegar BUT apple cider I have rice vinegar red wine , balsamic, and white do you know if I could sub with any of those? I might just try plain but I did get rid of the whole container of cuties there was one bad one and they just came out of nowhere gross 😂😂
@@LadyKay327I would try the rice and red wine vinegar first then the balsamic. But the white won't work, I've tried.
@@emilystubbs5650 thank you so much!! I’ve been doing other stuff and I got rid of ALL the bananas I had that helped but I’m going to try the rice one tonight, I appreciate your response ♥️
I hate how they target my face and dive bomb me They come out of nowhere. I believe the drains could be the issue.
Drain flies can be removed by putting 1/4 cup of salt, 1/4 cup of baking soda (mix these two) in your drain, then add 1 cup of vinegar. Stopper the drain and flush with boiling water the next day. You may need to repeat this a couple of days. I usually add a squirt of Dawn or Lysol to the drain, after the dry ingredients, before the vinegar.
Its in all apartments where we live. Definitely the drains
Yessss! I keep thinking what is it about my face they are attracted to! Lol
I'm no engineer nor water person thing, but can't you just put window mosquito blockers net thing inside the drain? Or will it block the water in a way?
@@LeoBoxGaming I don't know what window mosquitoe blockers are...so you mean a screen? In theory a small enough screen would work, but household drains have drain stoppers in the middle. So you can fill the sink with water. So I don't know how you would adfix the screen securely.
Most efficient way is to take a vacuum and suck them all in. They'll all be gone if you do it for a few days.
Don't they just crawl out?
@@kruszer With a powerful vacuum I think they just die instantly, because they don't come out.
Always works!
Crazy how well it worked. As some others said leave space between the bottle top and the amount of apple cide you put in. Also I happend to add allot of soap so you’d have to wait for bubbles to go down before and flys start going in so use the amount of soap recomended. All in all it cleared my room of fruit flies
I love how you guys played Death Note's "L's Theme" for the recipe.
Lmfao
what part of the video is that? The only song I hear is used at the beginning of the package and that's "tubular bells" from The Exorcist soundtrack (Exorcist theme)
@@adrianpale2342😢
the flies are getting no potato chips today.
This did nothing for me. But what did wonders and got rid of all of them was this sticky trap that you put on your windows. They are clear so it doesn't look ugly or noticeable but man they really work! Ive caught all my fruit flies and some moths and flies
Brand?
Link?
So are they just regular, generic fly trap strips?
Created this as shown. 4 hours later no takers - they're still swarming my head!
If you do that and it do not help so much, it may not be fruit-flies but a similar looking insect with a similar life cycle living in and around indoor plants, they lay their eggs in the soil and can be very hard to get rid of, but you can buy maggots that you but in the plant soil that eat those eggs and stop the cycle.
what are they called
They’re called gnats or fungus gnats :)
Damnnnnnn, i really reallyyy hate flies... litterally all types of flies are very disturbing. Thanks for the information though😢👌
You covered so many topics and answered so many questions, thank you love 💖🤘
Should the top of the bottle be submerged when you place it like a funnel? Or should there be a gap between the opening and the liquid?
1 month later
@@rzuproductions5956 I filled mine to just be making contact with the lid, and it’s been working great
It is best to leave a gap
OK, just finished making this and setting it out....well see. However, I don't see how it's any different than those little traps with the holes on the top with apple cider inside? I use those but it only catches a few everyday, not even close to all of them
Just made one of these traps….
I’ll be back in 7 days time with the verdict 😄
So then, what happened?
The people need a verdict lol
Does white vinegar also work?
I don’t have apple cider vinegar at home currently, will the regular vinegar work the same?
no..they like the rotten fruit smell
Add a little syrup to it and it will work, but not as well
Does it have to be Dawn Dishwasher? Can I use Gain Dishwasher?
I use paper or plastic cups and put in apple juice and a little alcohol. Then a stretch Saran Wrap over the top and secure
with an elastic band. I'll poke 4 or 5 holes with a toothpick. Or use any small amount of fruit of any kind alone in the cup..
That"s an Appletini!......add ice and enjoy, you'll soon forget about those pesky fies!
Thank you ! I will try today!
What about gnats??
I believe they are different but look the same.
Might be drain gnats? Pour boiling water down your kitchen drains.
This is very easy and very attractive and also made with less item😊😊😊😊
In Uganda. Perfect. To set them up in my watermelon garden tomorrow.
Cinnamon sticks in the fruit bowl helps deter them as well
Thank you
Thanks.
what if I don't have apple cider vinegar.. ? Does rice vinegar and artificial vinegar works too?
Needs to be some sort of fruit or sugar based liquid. Apple is a fruit and rice is not so they will not be attracted to rice vinegar.
You can also do fruit juice if available
toothpaste with floride works too!
How?
I hope that will work. I've tried vinegar with a little dish soap....did not work for fruit flies or house flies. 😢
maybe you have fungus gnats and not fruit flies
Was it apple cider vinegar?
Use sugar
Well I’m trying this and it’s not working. They were on top of the bottle but did not go in. Not sure if it’s any different but I used Ajax instead of Dawn.
Thank you! I'm hoping that The Mother Vinegar works
I did try, but it did not work, any other way if you can suggest.
On the bottle technique , does the inverted end go into the solution or above the fluid level ? Appeared urs went into it.
It's supposed to be above the fluid level, otherwise the flies can't fly in. She just wasn't paying attention to what she was doing because she was making a video for TV.
@@GrantSR thought so just wanted clarification
It really isn't necessary to cut the bottle, just put the solution into the bottle, the fruit flies will find their way in just fine.
@@destinyandpurpose The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one.
You make it into funnel so they won't be able to get out. She even says that in the video. Something tells me that your "destiny and purpose" is trolling people.
How many fruit flies have you caught? My point is that cutting the bottle is not absolutely necessary for it to work. And as for "something tells me" you really should not listen to that voice, it has caused you to make a false statement that appears to be ignorance at its finest.@@GrantSR
Can you also show something for Japanese Beatles.. those buggers have cleaned up our cherry tree and maple tree leaves
Also soak wine corks keep them away
Instead of apple cider vinegar can i use lemon?
Will it work with normal vinegar instead of apple cedars vinegar?
If I don't have a dishwash liquid...can I use liquid detergent
i have a fruit fly infestation in my bedroom and i don't even keep fruits or any sort of food.
They fly into your mouth while u sleep u know...
Yoo help what do I do help😢😢😢
@@shawnd223333 How come?
@@shawnd223333a little extra protein while you sleep can't hurt lol
Don't let the neck of the inverted bottle touch the liquid as in the video! as the fruit flys can't get in past the liquid leave at least 10 centimeters gap 👍😊
I’m trying this now!
Those flies eat meat as well! I forget to put some leftover fried chicken in the refrigerator and several days later those things laid eggs all over my leftover fried chicken as I saw their little maggots wriggled all over the leftover fried chicken! Those things eat anything!
How long was that chicken out???
🤣🤣🤣🤣
If a flying insect lands on your food throw it away!
Exactlyyy dude. I lost my patience when i ate a cereal and one of those fckrs flew insidee. Since then i've been hunting them using a broom and baygon spray if u know what that is. but there were still alot of them, so i've been searching on how to make a trap for them😅😂
Didn’t work for me at all. I don’t get how people are getting it to work???
Ok, so for the past 3 years every summer I get the pleasure of going to war with these little bastards. The apple cider vinegar method does work but there are some important things to understand. 1) Flies only go into these traps if they have no other choice. No other option for food. Gotta keep kitchen, trash can, and drains crazy clean. 2) Clean the trap daily and put fresh vinegar in it. Otherwise, it will stop working. Also, not a bad idea to swap out baits from time to time. I found fruit juice to also perform exceptionally well. 3) Try to avoid putting loose food in your trash can if you can. Stuff things that are likely to draw flies into large air tight storage bags and then toss in the trash can. Makes starving them out much easier if you're already keeping the kitchen clean.
If you can't keep loose food out of the trash can, double bagging your trash so any that may have started breeding in your trash can get trapped inside and can't get out to infest the outside trash can. This is important because if they infest the outside can they will just come into the house from outside. Especially when the trash is collected weekly. Hope this helps.
Thank you 😊
It only works minimal
You're wrong. I left some vinegar (no water) with a drop of soap out on my counter, the next day I counted 30 dead fruit flies. Out of maybe one to two hundred that formed when I went on vacation and left fruit in my garbage can. I started leaving out 2 traps and they were all gone in a few days.
@@bestsnowboarderuknow You mean just a bottle of regular vinegar?? Can you elaborate?
i only have white vinegar, will that work?
God bless you
What if a don't have apple cider vinegar?? Can the other vinegar be used ??
Why does it need tonbe diluted with water?
Tried this a few times and it never worked dor me. In Australia.
Does this work on any housefly?
I tried this exactly as she shows in this videos. They crawled all over the bottle but never went in. It did not work
I found out the hard way that fruit flies can breed in beer cans, I still can’t get rid of them!!!!
in India, whch dish washing can we use?
I have traps with apple cider vinegar and dish soap and the fruit fly doesn't get near it the fruit fly has been living longer than fifty days four months I tried spraying it with my bleach cleaner and it didn't work and it has been growing I'm worried because I have a baby guinea pig scratching his ear there is no way it could be laying eggs because there is no other fruit flys just one so I don't why the fruit fly would be bothering him
I think maybe you should Google "fruit fly" images. Fruit flies don't show up one at a time; it's usually 100 or more. These guys look like gnats; only 2 or 3 millimeters long. You might be looking at a house fly.
@@curiouscharacter1 there was a infestation in my house and I was spraying a bunch of them with bleach cleaner and it was killing them the female was the only one left and I knew it was a female because it kept laying eggs in my guinea pigs ears my boyfriend started cleaning my guinea pigs ears with peroxide and cotton swabs and she was flying above the cage watching him and then it started flying around my house from room to room I saw it inside my bathroom one day on the wall above my toilet and I sprayed with the bleach cleaner and it didn't die that guinea pig died that is why it wasn't flying around the cage anymore we got a new guinea pig and it wasn't bothering this one because it was the only one inside my house three weeks ago it started flying in my boyfriends face and he killed it and I do know what fruit flies look like I had a big infestation going on in my house
Would normal vinegar work
Didn't work AT ALL! Frikin flies where sitting right above it and didn't even think of going near it.. I gave up on this after 3 days.. Not a single one :((
I dont have apple cider vinegar
THIS DOES NOT WORK! I TRIED IT 3 TIMES AND USED IT AS DIRECTED IN THE VIDEO! THEY SEEMED TO HAVE TRIPPLED!
Shows about 45 fruit flies:
Her: "hundreds -- literally hundreds of fruit flies"
😂😂
Can other dishwasher liquid work?
I will be on my way to get the Apple Cider Vinegar and Dawn Dish Soap. Going by all the comments, it should work so thank you in advance!
Will this work for black flies?
How to know if you have Nats or fruit flies?
Do you need to have the bottle in the liquid ??? The spout of the bottle ???
Drowning in acid is rough, but games the game
Almost exploded😂😂😂😂😂
Brilliant
didn't work for me
It didn’t work for me😮
❤thanks
Ye Fruit Fly nahi thi
“Unfortunately they drown.” Jeez.
fortunely*
Oh my gosh, the woman forgot to leave a gap for them to get in. hahahahahahaahahahahahaha!!! FAIL
Noticed that
i’ve realized apple cider vinegar never works anymore
Does white vinegar work?
Tried it and it worked!
Not working for me. They are going near it but not in it
Can I use regular vinegar instead of apple cider vinegar?
Yes but I’d add some syrup to it. It does work but idk if it works as well as apple cider vinegar
@@Svoboda1234 thanks for the reply ✌🏻
Amazing 🤩
Keep your fruit out side.
I accidentoy left some grapes in my bag (stupid i know) bit im going to try this and see if it works😊
Does it have to be dawn or will Palmolive work?
Good question
Any dishwashing liquid will work. Just don't overdo it. The idea is to break the surface tension so that once landing on the surface the little bugs sink at once before they have a chance to escape drowning by flying away.
Why are they attracted to the ACV???
Because it’s made from apples
Use sugar also
A shot of vinegar and a shot of vodka in your sunk drain in the evening. Flush in the morning
What to do if you have no apple Cinder vinager? >_>
Go to the store
You don't have to kill them. You can put a slice of lemon inside a tall glass (the taller the better) and lean a piece of card (to block them from seeing you when you catch them) on one side of the glass. When they are in the glass, slowly surreptitiously cover the glass with them inside while standing behind the card / from their blind spot and then release them outside your home. it helps to have a narrow top of the glass and to partially cover so there's less time used to cover the glass and for them to notice you. Try not to have them notice you otherwise of course they will learn the dangers. Try to take as many of your fruit flies in each evacuation for the same reason of less of them seeing the trap strategy. Clean your bin! Easy win. Do this at the beginning of the season so it doesn't become a problem.
Squirt some citrus, on the fly papper.
It attracts more flies and stinks the place out.
It’s not working for me
Cool ❤
don't they just fly out the window
I am try
It didn't work. 😢
Guess what doesn't work? No, come on...guess. I've tried every method for this including store-bought traps using soap and vinegar (didn't know that's all it was). NOPE! Tomorrow, I'm buying fly paper.
It doesn’t work
that doesn't work
Doesn't work !