i got microflies in my condo

[Brainonska511]

Rinse your bananas off when you get them and then toss the waste in a covered container (perhaps even dispose of the bulk trash a few times per week in some sort of outdoor receptacle). This doesn't seem like a radically hard concept.

 

[Uppsala9496]

EDIT: What edro said

Get a small dish with at least a 1 inch lid on the edges.
Fill halfway with apple cider vinegar and about 1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap. Mix the soap with the vinegar.

The flies will be attracted to the vinegar but won't be able to escape the soap. Levae the dish out for week and you will be amazed at how many of the dead ones you have in it. Provided you have no other food source around they will all be gone in a week.

Any houseplants at home? They like to live in the soil and reproduce there.

I had a big infestation a couple of years ago due to some infected bananas being brought into the house.

 

[GullyFoyle]

I asked an Orkin guy once, where these little flies were coming from, since they just seem to appear when Bananas start turning brown.
He said they are drain flies, pour bleach down your drains for a couple of days in a row, and they should not reappear for a while.
Worth a shot.

 

[IronWing]

Sell your condo and buy a house. House flies are easier to swat.

 

[bononos]

EDIT: What edro said

Get a small dish with at least a 1 inch lid on the edges.
Fill halfway with apple cider vinegar and about 1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap. Mix the soap with the vinegar.

The flies will be attracted to the vinegar but won't be able to escape the soap. Levae the dish out for week and you will be amazed at how many of the dead ones you have in it. Provided you have no other food source around they will all be gone in a week.
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The soap will reduce the surface tension of the water so the flies won't be able to float and they will drown.

 

[Fritzo]

Know what's worse than microflies?

MACROFLYS

 

[purbeast0]

why is it so hard for you to take your trash outside? why the hell are you flushing peels down the toilet instead of taking the trash outside?

 

[Red Storm]

why is it so hard for you to take your trash outside? why the hell are you flushing peels down the toilet instead of taking the trash outside?

LOL this.

 

[Fritzo]

why is it so hard for you to take your trash outside? why the hell are you flushing peels down the toilet instead of taking the trash outside?

Oh lay off the guy. Fresh produce in the summer attracts fruit flies. Everyone gets them. The eggs are probably on the produce before you bring it home.

Take a shotglass and fill it half way with apple cider vinegar. Cover it with plastic wrap and poke a small hole in the middle. Put this near your produce and you have a great fruit fly trap. Works wonders.

 

[2timer]

these miniflies are really messing me up. i waited a day and there are more of them that ever. i cant even sit at my desk and do things without them flying in my face. so i decided to fish out all the banana peels from the trash and flush them down the toilet ( i was careful to tear them in pieces). then later i noticed one of my toilets would flush really slowly. i think one of the banana peel is stuck in the pipes. i tried to plunger to no avail, although the water did eventually drain down. how do you get a banana peel to biodegrade in a toilet pipe? what chemical can you pour down a toilet safely to get the banan peel to dissolve and go down?

What...

For the record, I would not try a food bait. That will just make more flies. Like someone else suggested, remove all the fruit from your garbage and wait, they will die off themselves in a couple of days.

 

[veri745]

Not sure if it's been mentioned. Balsamic vinegar is my preferred fruit fly bait.

Add a 1/2 inch or so of balsamic vinegar to a cup of water. Add a drop of dish detergent (breaks surface tension so the flies fall in). Cover with plastic wrap. Poke small holes in plastic wrap.

Works like a charm...

 

[jupiter57]

Sell your condo and buy a house. House flies are easier to swat.

No can do.

OP's "Condo" is ATOT-speak for "Mom's Basement".
He can't move unless she does.

 

[mizzou]

get a tall glass with a little whiskey/rum on the bottom, and place a reverse funnel on top if it (cone facing down). leave a little hole for them to get down.

They 99% will not fly out after they get in, it works!

Also, look for the source, eventually they will die off. We had a bag of liquified potatoes in a never used cupboard once, and there were 1,000's in there, but only 5-10 would make their way out a day.

 

[Puppies04]

these miniflies are really messing me up. i waited a day and there are more of them that ever. i cant even sit at my desk and do things without them flying in my face. so i decided to fish out all the banana peels from the trash and flush them down the toilet ( i was careful to tear them in pieces). then later i noticed one of my toilets would flush really slowly. i think one of the banana peel is stuck in the pipes. i tried to plunger to no avail, although the water did eventually drain down. how do you get a banana peel to biodegrade in a toilet pipe? what chemical can you pour down a toilet safely to get the banan peel to dissolve and go down?

Is this going to turn into a "there was an old lady who swallowed a fly" situation?

I am waiting for the post where you flush gorillas down to toilet to get rid of the banana peel.

 

[zinfamous]

cup of vinegar might help

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you have fruit flies, OP. they will be attracted to anything fermented, slightly acidic and alcoholic. Drosophila love booze.

I'd guess you have boring-ass melanogaster, but if you tell me where you live and the current temperature, I might deduce that you have a cooler species and request that you mail me some so that I can sequence those bastards.

--seriously.

 

[zinfamous]

get a tall glass with a little whiskey/rum on the bottom, and place a reverse funnel on top if it (cone facing down). leave a little hole for them to get down.

They 99% will not fly out after they get in, it works!

Also, look for the source, eventually they will die off. We had a bag of liquified potatoes in a never used cupboard once, and there were 1,000's in there, but only 5-10 would make their way out a day.

OMG! You might have had D busckii! :awe:

 

[zinfamous]

What...

For the record, I would not try a food bait. That will just make more flies. Like someone else suggested, remove all the fruit from your garbage and wait, they will die off themselves in a couple of days.

food bait works just fine. just cover the top with a funnel and a small opening, as suggested.

Most Drosophila have a 12-15 day cycle. So that should leave more than enough time for even the most slovenly basement-dweller to toss the collected baits before the next generation hatches.

when we go to collect them in the wild, it is usually several days-old banana mush primed with active yeast. They go nuts for that--mango, too.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

 

[2timer]

:thumbsup:

food bait works just fine. just cover the top with a funnel and a small opening, as suggested.

Most Drosophila have a 12-15 day cycle. So that should leave more than enough time for even the most slovenly basement-dweller to toss the collected baits before the next generation hatches.

when we go to collect them in the wild, it is usually several days-old banana mush primed with active yeast. They go nuts for that--mango, too.

I stand corrected then :thumbsup:

 

[Colt45]

get rid of your rotten fruit and they will be gone also