This Genius Trap Will Stop FRUIT FLIES In Your House Overnight!

what's going on gardeners it's saturday july 9th and today i'm going to show you how to stop a fruit fly infestation in your house that are so common this time of year if you're new to the channel please consider subscribing and hitting the bell to receive new video notifications and check out our amazon storefront and spreadshop in the video description for a list of the gardening products i use and awesome custom designed apparel and other gear your support is greatly appreciated if you're like me you probably have a spot on the end of your counter somewhere that you dedicate for storing fresh produce that doesn't do well in the refrigerator and i do i store my fresh produce from the grocery store all year on the edge of my counter right here however during this time of year it gets filled up with fresh tomatoes from the garden sometimes it's practically overflowing when i'm in the heart of tomato season here on the southeastern coast of north carolina in mid-june now most of the year i don't have any issues with the produce i store on my countertop here but like clockwork in the heart of the growing season it is only a matter of time before we get some kind of big awful fruit fly infestation and i wake up and there are fruit flies all over this area and that happens for a very specific reason most of the year it's just too cold to support the natural fruit fly life cycle of laying and hatching eggs but in the summer because it's so warm that fruit fly reproductive cycle gets shot into overdrive and they start reproducing and hatching like crazy also by this time of year most of my tomato plants that i planted way back in late march are pretty much dead and because the heavy rains have moved in i have a lot of split fruits that are rotting and around those rotting fruits it is typical to see fruit flies buzzing everywhere and feasting while garden tomatoes are incredibly delicious they are far from perfect they usually have all kinds of little cracks and imperfections on them and they are the perfect places for these fruit flies to lay their eggs so it's only a matter of time until you bring in some fruits from your garden that have fruit fly eggs in them and one day you will just wake up and they will have hatched and there will be fruit flies everywhere when these fruit flies take over your kitchen it can be extremely annoying but luckily it's just as easy to kill them as it is for them to have their initial takeover of your kitchen and you really only need three ingredients some dish soap a sweet fruit-based vinegar of your choice and a shot glass now the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take all of the susceptible fruits off the counter because we don't want the fruit flies to preferentially lay and nest in them and keep producing with the reproductive cycle so we're going to temporarily relocate all of our susceptible fruits to a paper bag and then once they're relocated we're going to scrunch up that bag so no fruit flies can get in unsusceptible produce can still stay up there so i still have my zucchini and my avocados up there if you have something like a watermelon that there's no way that a fruit fly could get into you could leave that up there as well you only really need to remove the soft susceptible fruits that the fruit flies love now we're going to fill up our shot glass to the rim with a fruit-based vinegar and it's very important that you use a fruit-based vinegar because remember these are fruit flies they are attracted to the natural sugars in fruits so you can't use something like a distilled vinegar i've had a lot of success with balsamic vinegar red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar and i would recommend that that you would use either one of those you can use more expensive vinegars like cherry vinegar and pomegranate vinegar but why waste the money on them red wine vinegar is usually the least expensive so that is usually my go-to now you'll notice that i filled the shot glass very close to the rim but not entirely to the rim and that's because i need to add a drop or two of dish soap to the shot glass and this is for a very specific reason water has a significant amount of surface tension that's why you can slightly overfill water to the point where it will actually come up over the rim and this surface tension is enough for many bugs to actually walk on a lot of these bugs can walk on water so if you let your fruit flies land inside of the vinegar as is there's a chance they can get up and fly away but if you add a drop or two of dish soap that takes all the surface tension away from the water and remember vinegar is 95 water so if you place a little bit of dish soap like this anytime a fruit fly will land on top of it they will sink right down now that the dish soap has been added we are going to fill it to the surface tension level and that right there is perfect now i'm going to place that shot glass that is full of a fruit-based vinegar and soap over to the problem area where the fruit flies are congregating and i'm also going to place this bunch of brand new bananas right next to it because the brand new bananas are not yet susceptible to the fruit flies but the scent may draw them over so what we want to do is we want to make sure that that shot glass full of that sweet cider vinegar or your sweet fruit-based vinegar is the most attractive thing and what's going to happen is the overwhelming majority of the fruit flies are going to try and land on the rim of the shot glass and they're going to try and drink the vinegar and the vinegar is either going to kill them or they will land on top of the actual water and they will sink because of the dish soap and over a couple of days this is going to collect almost all of the fruit flies so all you want to do is every morning you just want to come and you want to check on your your shot glass of vinegar because eventually it's going to start evaporating every morning it'll be maybe a half a centimeter or so down from evaporation so you'll just want to keep topping it off until all of the fruit flies are gone these two shot glasses have been on my counter for four days now and the one on the left is filled with balsamic vinegar the one on the right is filled with the red wine vinegar just because i wanted to show that they are both effective now i want to show you how many fruit flies these two shot glasses have caught over the four days all right let's dump the red wine vinegar right here uh there's still a ton of bugs in there ugh so look at all of those fruit flies that were caught in the red wine vinegar now let's try the balsamic vinegar ugh might be even more in there you can see there must be at least 50 fruit flies in there maybe closer to 100 and that should show you just how extremely effective this simple method is and that right there is how you can quickly and easily stop a fruit fly outbreak in your kitchen now if you have a really bad outbreak you may want to use more than one shot glass i used two and that was the perfect amount for me but you can use three or more if your outbreak is particularly bad so everybody i sure hope you found this video helpful if you did please make sure to hit that like button subscribe to the channel and ring that notification bell so you're notified when we release more videos like these if you're curious about any of the products that i use for real in my garden they are all linked down below in my amazon storefront in the video description and while you're there check out my spreadshop link for custom merch if you want to support the channel thank you all so much for watching and i hope to see all of you again on the next video all right dale we're working on your hungries and dale is getting a mozzarella cheese omelette look at that omelette who can make an omelette like that that's almost looking french boy do you have it good living here all right i can't take this omelette out with just one hand buddy i gotta put my phone down hey dale you remember when you used to live in a shelter oh boy if things change for you i just want to see how how good this omelette looks oh look at that cheese pool dale look at that cheese pool oh that looks so good i'm going to chop it up and transfer it to your bowl oh and now we have oh now we have dale's cheese omelette and then we have chicken cooked in bone broth with carrots and kale from the garden and white rice come on let's go to his bowl let's see how good this is i'm actually kind of jealous i kind of want to eat this dale sit sit stay good boy dale okay oh he's gonna love it oh he's been so good today he deserves a treat like this

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022