1. Fruit flies sanitation.
Before you get rid of fruit flies by other methods, you have to eradicate their breeding places all sound the house. Put away all the food items that may be likely infested by the flies. Mop out the counter thoroughly with detergent and water. Take out the dust bin and put a well ripped fruit inside. Place it beside the window, where the flies will see it and eventually follow their hunt. When you realize that good number of fruit flies are out and are no more moving, close the window and take the dust bin far away from the entire apartment.
2. Bug Zapper for Fruit Flies.
Place a bug zapper in a dark position and place a ripe fruit bedside it. It will eventually draw the attention of the flies to be captured by the zapper. Alternatively, you can make use of vacuum cleaner to wipe them away.
3. Make use of Steam Trap.
Pour some boiled water in wide bowel and put a ripped fruit inside the water. The fruit should be cut into two pieces. Place the bowel where the fruit flies are trafficing, the steam will catch those flying around and the hot water to kill them immediately when they drop on the bowl. In order to get rid of fruit flies fast using this destructive method, you have to be changing the water after every hour or less. You may add sweet white vinegar in order to smell more charming to attract them faster.
4. Pickle Jar, Fruit and Funnel Trap.
Get an empty pickle jar and put a piece of ripe banana and cantaloupe in it. Mango, pineapple, tomatoes, or any succulent fruit will work instead of banana. Then find a medium sized rubber funnel or in the absense of a real funnel, make a funnel cone with a piece of paper and put it into the jar so that the wide part of the cone will seal the top firmly, and let it sit upright. The flies will get in to eat the fruit and never want to come not, even though they want to, the construction will hinder them. So in order to get rid of fruit flies fast using pickle jar and fruit method, you should add non-smelling liquid dishwasher detergent in order to kill them inside. Place it in a place were you can leave it for several days in order to capture all the attentions of fruit flies around. So remember to get rid of all fruits and vegetables around in order to make the pickle jar trap an only alternative for them to feed. You could free them every morning far away from the entire house.
5. Bottle and Coffee Filter.
Get a one litre bottle, a coffee filter, and red wine or juice. Put some wine or juice in the bottle, put a coffee filter rolled into a cone at the top, and moistened the coffee filter with a bit of juice to in order to draw the flies in, shake a bit to make it bubble a bit. The flies will get in and be drown easily with the aid of the small bubbles on top of the liquid. Keep it for some days, but change the solution whenever it looks less effective in drowning them.
Keeping a better eye in eradicating fruit flies is always the best. You don't want to spend a long time trapping them with less or no result. So concentrate on the method that seem to work fine for you in order to get rid of fruit flies fast without wasting a week on this small tiny things.
