Summer fruit flies buzzing around keezer/kegerator - Killing the B@st@rds!

[Willy]

Years ago I learned this cool trick in California - how to eradicate those pesky fruit flies in the warm months of summer. You have seen them hovering around your bananas on the counter which is annoying, but when they start playing around my beer - they have effectively declared war.

Here is a high tech solution to wipe their micro asses out.

Get a small bowl (like a ramekin or finger bowl sized container) and put a few banana slices in it, cover with a splash of apple cider vinegar, and few drops of dawn dishwashing liquid (you can use any dishwashing liquid but Dawn pays me big bucks to mention them by name. Ha) . Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and stretch it tightly like a drum. Punch some small bb sized hole in the plastic cover.

You will be amazed at how quickly this little bowl takes out the population. Usually just a few days and they are toast.

 

[Peebee]

Cor! Like mini-Jam jar wasp traps? I'll be giving that a go 'cos the little sods seem to be immune to fly-spray.

But no-way am I putting resulting (numerous?) dead bodies on toast!

 

[Willy]

Cor! Like mini-Jam jar wasp traps? I'll be giving that a go 'cos the little sods seem to be immune to fly-spray.

But no-way am I putting resulting (numerous?) dead bodies on toast!

My last one cleared out the herd. Just put this one in today to ensure annihilation. I want them buggers to be toast. Not eat on toast. Haha.

 

[Deadalus]

I don't see water mentioned do you add water as well? I have used water, Dawn, and cider vinegar but not banana. I've gone the plastic wrap route, it works a little better than no wrap. Also I have used a wine bottle, no wrap, that works pretty good. Too much water seems to dilute the aroma in my experience but you only mentioned a splash of vinegar so it didn't seem to be enough fluid.

Then of course you have to make sure everyone keeps the house neat, the compost container emptied daily, no dishes on the counter, all the recycling fairly well washed, and all trash emptied regularly that contain any foodstuffs. Also, If someone says they are going to cook sweet potatoes that someone needs to cook the sweet potatoes and not leave them in a dark out of the way place.

 

[Willy]

Any fruit will do. Bananas, strawberries and pineapple work very well. I don't use any water, but perhaps my apple cider is more than a splash... It's about a finger deep with fruit above the surface.

My keezer is outside in the garage (yes, I do live with a splendid and beautiful woman who is in charge of such things) so it is more susceptible to fruit flies. But now? All gone thanks to the Popeil portable fruit fly spa. They come in for a run down and get rubbed out!