How to get rid of fruit flies in your home with a nontoxic bug trap? 1st let’s talk about the most common natural home solution: apple cider vinegar and dish soap to kill fruit flies. There is a very big problem with these solutions: they don’t work very good. Additionally your restaurant will smell very bad!

Urban legend that doesn’t work very often: Attract the Flies with Rotten Fruits! Fruit flies love rotten fruits due to the smell of fermentation. Place a piece of rotten fruit into a container or bowl then cover the container with a plastic wrap. Poke a few tiny holes into the plastic wrap. The gnats will fly in and get trapped inside the container. Sticky fly traps, such as the yellow sticky trap, works really well for people who are dealing with serious fruit fly infestations. Place several of these traps around your kitchen and bathroom. There’s no way for the flies to escape once they land on the sticky surface. These traps may also help you eliminate other common household pests like fungus gnats, pantry and clothes moths, and white flies.

But the problem is that, very often, this method doesn’t work, fruit flies will appear again and you will also have a problem with the very bad odor from this “natural” solution. Vinegar is a very strong and powerful liquid – it’s just not fun having that available in the house. Especially if there are kids around. Do you want dead flying insects floating around on their kitchen counter, table, bar, or restaurant?

Nontoxic bug trap to get rid of drain flies in restaurant that works? Try Eon Luxe right now! UV light attracts fruit flies, mosquitoes, drain moths. When the flying pests see ultraviolet light, they are naturally lured in the direction of the source of UV rays. Eon Luxe Solutions Ultraviolet light lures the flies over a 320 square foot area and works best in a closed, dark room. Eon Luxe Solutions Pest Vortex uses vacuum action to collect tiny flying insects and pull them into the removable retention cage. Once collected, pests are prevented from escaping by the whisper-quiet fan with continuous operation then landing them onto the no-escape glue pad. See more info at Nontoxic bug trap on Amazon.

Fruit flies prevention tip (it’s easier to prevent!) : Clean the counters and desks: Fruit flies don’t need much to survive and thrive. A crumb here, a spill there, and they’re more than content to subsist indefinitely. If you want these winged terrors to pack up and hit the road once and for all, you’re going to have to deprive them of even that. If you aren’t already, you’re going to have to scrub down your desk every day. Take out your personal trash, too. When you’re done with that, make sure the kitchen is nice and clean before you leave every night. Even if it was someone else’s cleaning week. Yeah, yeah, we know: it’s not fair. But fruit flies don’t play fair, and neither can you. You’ve gotta hit them where it hurts, and where it hurts are those crumbs leftover from the ham sandwich you had for lunch yesterday.

We are a husband and wife duo operating a small business in a small town just 30 minutes south of Boston in Pembroke, Massachusetts. We love hiking – in the above photo, we were at the Montezuma Castle. I love smoothies and Acai bowls, so there’s always a few organic bananas in my fruit bowl. No matter how clean I keep the house, a few fruit flies still find their way in my home buzzing around the bananas and other fruits. They are an annoyance! I tried using apple cidar vinegar and dish soap – and they work great, but the ACV has a very strong smell, and they just don’t look very nice in home…..And the kids have “accidentally” spilled them once or twice. Definitely not fun. See additional info on Get rid of fruit flies.