Easy Fruit Fly Trap

Step 7 Freeze 'em (op)

Fruit flies will start breeding really quickly so if you want to keep the trap for more than a few days and not have a fruit fly farm on your counter (trust me you do not) it's a good idea to kill the flies off periodically. The best way I've found of doing this is to put the whole thing in the freezer overnight.

Comments

[richarpo]

You could take the cling film off, and put it outside to let them escape.

[crickle321]

What would the benefit be of letting them escape outside?

[tgosser137]

To provide food for other insects/birds etc. that eat bugs... yum!

[anotherbob]

 I thought I invented this! LOL

I use a mix of wine or beer and vinegar with a piece of what ever they were hanging around in the middle.

The vinegar will dissolve the little buggers and you won't even notice how many you have floating around in there.

[NoFiller]

Me too! Great minds and whatever... A quick internet search shows that this is actually a quite popular solution, don't know why I didn't come across it sooner.

[hbk2flyer]

 I like to use a bit of red wine, then let them go outside to feed the spiders!