How to Make a Quick and Easy Fruit Fly Trap

This fruit fly trap will clear out your kitchen in no time at all and it’s super easy.

What’s worse than fruit flies? Well, mosquitoes are definitely worse but I made some citronella candles and all-natural bug spray to keep them away. Oh, and yellow jackets are also a pain but I made a recycled bottle wasp trap for those. Now it’s time to stick it to those icky fruit flies with another all-natural and simple solution.

Materials:

Small glass bowl
Wine or juice
Dish soap
Plastic wrap
Bamboo skewer

Make it!

1. Fill a small glass bowl with some wine or a little juice and a piece of the fruit that the flies are so in love with. Just a plain syrup will not work as well. Fruit flies are looking for some yummy rotting fruit so they can lay their eggs in it so use rotting fruit to lure them into your trap.

As a side note: Eeeewwww! Yes, this means they will lay eggs that turn into baby flies which we know are, well, I don’t think I need to say more. These are not fun pets is all.

2. Put a few drops of dish soap in the liquid.

3. Cover tightly with a piece of plastic wrap and poke a few holes in with the bamboo skewer. Make sure the holes are big enough that they can find their way in to their demise da da dum.

4. Remove all temptation from the area (ie: move the offending fruit) and place the trap in its spot. Clean out when full and start again if the problem persists. It usually takes me only one trap full to get rid of them as I don’t let it get too out of hand.

Even though I’m giddy about killing fruit flies, warding off mosquitoes, and trapping wasps, I do love insects as a whole. I know their value to the garden and earth, and respect their world. If you want to see the good side of creepy crawlers: learn more about beneficial insects for the garden, learn how to build a bug hotel, check out this cool spider ball, this goldenrod crab spider, and this honeybee swarm. Yay for bugs! Just not on me. Or my fruit.