How to Get Rid of Gnats or Fruit flies
So here are these tiny little guys flying all around your house. They look like fruit-flies but there is no fruit, there is no reason that these things should be hanging around. It does not matter where you live or what season it is, these pests show up and plan to stay. Read on to learn how to get rid of them. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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How to get rid of fruit-flies/gnats
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Pour a good amount of bleach down the drain on your basement floor because sometimes those little buggers will come up through there.
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At night before you get ready for bed, take the jar and fill it about half way with vinegar and then throw in about a cup of sugar. This is not a recipe so do not worry about accuracy.
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Stir it up real good until the sugar is dissolved. Place the funnel in the jar as if you were planning to pour something into it.
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If you have multiple floors in your home add a jar on each floor. Now you have to make sure that the kitchen does not have anything laying around that is more appealing to the bugs than that solution is as they are attracted to it for some reason.
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Make sure the dishes are all done, counters cleared off, stove wiped off, and trash taken out or these pests will find a different spot to hang besides in your jar. When you wake up, all or most of the bugs will be trapped in the jar because they can get in but they can not get out of that funnel.
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Tips & Warnings
The more jars that you place, the higher your success rate will be.
If you see any that you did not capture then you may have to use the jar more than one night.
- Photo Credit Fotosearch/Bruce Coleman Rights Managed Photograph
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After I type this - I AM ON A MISSION. Sure hope it works - These little bugs are driving me so CRAZY! I am so over the bugs - I have been using a vacuum cleaner to suck them up - Otherwise we have splatted gnats everywhere.
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Anonymous
Sep 20, 2011
Thanks you for this! I am trying to tonight cause these things are driving me nuts! Every time I make a cup of coffee I end up dumping it cause they fly into it or even when we eat supper we have to constantly shoo them away. -
are they attracted to light? I had small fly like bugs all around the kitchen light? Too big to be fruit flies and to small to be a house fly. We had no food or fruit on counters. There were like hundreds of them swarming the light. any thoughts?
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I think the breeding place is in my tubs drain, there are.. well used to be a million in there, I have poured bleach down there, and they have seemed to be gone. but of course, there's still a bunch upstairs. I will have to try this.
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YES! this works and more jars u hv the faster u get them all...
