Those fruit flies are so darn bothersome. When they come, they come by the dozens or worse, especially when the female fruit flies starts to breed. They usually produce about 500 eggs, these eggs will hatch in 30 hours. The life time of a fruit fly is over in eight days so they will easily increase in numbers in just a few days.
How to kill fruit flies on your own and save a lot of money is to make sure that before trapping this insect, you clean up your whole house first. Clean up every area in your house from your kitchen, living area, bathroom and bedroom. Eliminate everything that will serve as their breeding place. Their source of food is also their breeding place.
Make double sure that you throw out any spoiled food you find in your house. Clean up any spills and messes on your table, kitchen counter top, floors and anywhere inside your house. Don’t leave any wet dish rags hanging around. Just make sure everything is clean and dry because fruit flies breed in moist areas.
After doing the cleaning part, how to kill fruit flies which are flying around, by yourself without calling an exterminator and saving money, is to simply follow the steps below.
Use a plastic zip lock bag for a trap
Put a few slices of apple in the bag and leave it open an inch, enough for the fruit flies to get in. You will find these little insects around the apple in no time. You can also use banana instead of apple, these fruits easily attracts fruit flies. Zip the bag and kill the fruit flies. You can do this over and over again untill you finally get rid of all those fruit flies.
How to kill fruit flies? Just Do It By yourself
