How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies/Gnats with a Bottle of Red Wine

If you are tired of those pesky fruit flies and gnats in your kitchen or living space then try this!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• An opened bottle of red wine (any brand)

1. First you need an opened bottle of red wine (any kind or brand).

2. Cork the bottle and reserve at least 2 inches of wine at the bottom of the bottle. We typically drink the bottle of red wine (but you don't necessarily have to do that to catch the fruit flies/gnats).

3. Leave the opened bottle with two inches of wine at the bottom on a flat surface in the area where you typically are bothered by the fruit flies/gnats.

4. The fruit flies/gnats are attracted to the wine and fly down into the bottle and are unable to escape causing them to drown in the red wine.

5. You can measure your progress by taking a look into the bottle and seeing all of the fruit flies/gnats swimming at the bottom.

Tips & Warnings

• Replace the bottle every two weeks until you have no fruit flies/gnats annoying you.
• It usually only takes a week with the red wine bottle on our kitchen counter by the trash can for us to see all of the fruit flies/gnats disappear from our house.

[jimdris]

on 1/17/2008 At least the little critters will die happy? They will have the consolation of knowing that it cost you two inches of your favorite wine! haha.