Gingy flies

[SandiF]

I have a gingy fly invasion going for the past 2 weeks. They are driving me up the wall and nothing that I do is working. I do not keep fruits on the counter. Every thing is washed and stored away in the kitchen. No damp dish rags or sponges. The disposal bin is disinfected twice a day and trash disposed of properly. As soon as I use a dish, cup, mug, spoon, knife, fork, I wash it and store it away. I disinfect the kitchen morning and night. Mi dey pon mi knees a scrub dung the floor and up to the ceiling and wipe down the walls. I keep the fridge cleaned and stale food disposed of. Last night I cleaned out the kitchen drain and trap thoroughly and flushed it with hot water and poured a gallon bleach dung each drain hole. The bathroom is spotless.

The more I clean and clean and dispose and disinfect is the more gingy fly mi si. They are immune to the flying insect sprays. Just the words "gingy fly" is starting to make me feel dirty and my skin feeling itchy and I have to go take yet another shower because dem a mad me! Someone please tell me what to do that is over and beyond get an insect spray man to bomb the house from top to bottom.

Mi cannot tek it nuh longer. :bawl:

[CeaBee]

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sound like me need to hire u as cleaning lady sandi

i don't know what to tell you. Usually for me, after the bananas all gone or thrown away the fruit flies disappear.

where do u keep the fruit? them flies look dem can penetrate almost anything..except for the fridge.

[Gen]

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dem nuh fraid a fridge eedah mi dear.

SandiF maybe some peeca fruit/food drap behind somewhere or underneath somewhere ?

that is why mi nuh buy banana anymore since that have to be room temp.

[CeaBee]

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[kia027]

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we are having an invasion too.

setting flytraps fi dem and dem cousin

fling dem out

set a next flytrap..

btw dem like wine too.. so u could set out a wine and put dish soap which mek dem get stuck and den dash dem weh



a few years ago it was the stinkbug this year is gingy fli

[CyberPhobic]

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Hey, a juss Sundey mi guh uppa Peekskill an dem naily kill mi.

A di sayme wan dem cawl sowwa fly? Yikes! Dem sick mi stummuk.

[Jazz]

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OK I heard of a remedy for this - I hope I can remember right

Yuh fill a paper cup? (could be any cup I suppose but who want dead flies in yuh good cup) wid something... is it vinegar? or sugar and water? then you put a piece of saran wrap over the top and poke tiny holes in it?? and it run weh de flies, or they go in there and can't come out???

Look here - I;m gonna call my friend this evening (morning US time) and ask her then I will tell you - I can;t remember now but I tried it once and it worked like a CHARM!

[MsExced]

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Like Jazz say use a plastic cup with vinegar put saran wrap over the cup and bore holes.

It does work can't a florida mi live a it seems like a we a the breeding ground fi them

[kia027]

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working so far

[CeaBee]

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that vinegar ting did only catch a few of them fi me. the rest of them did just buzz round and avoid it

[twiney]

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the fly catcher with the paper cone in a glass or jar works

[Tulip]

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Good lord Sandi! I feel your pain. I detest fruit flies. I have never seen anything that could multiply so fast.

I have used the disposable cups 1/2 filled with sweet tea or soda but never tried the vinegar before. Bottles of beer about 1/3 full of beer left out overnight work well but you have to be ready with a paper towel to trap the ones it didn't kill before you disturb the bottle. The narrow opening is easier to work with than a cup.

I have heard that an empty plastic bread bag with a cut piece of fruit or bread with jam at the bottom attracts them like mad but it doesn't kill them so you really have to roll it shut fast fast when you collect it.

How long have you been fighting them? They only live like a day or two. If they are not breeding on a lost piece of food like Gen said, then it could be a house plant.

I won't keep corn plants in the house today because what I thought were fruit flies were actually a nest of something multiplying in the plant pot. To look at the nest moving around in there when I found the source was UBER unsettling!

[kia027]

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what ceabee and I both said.. the vinegar is like a rum bar to the flies.. Good ole fashioned fly sticky tings work like Twiney and I said

[MsExced]

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You and Ceabee flies them immune to the vinegar, lol...

I'll stick to mi vinegar because that's what's been working for me so no fly problem

[kia027]

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dem just swarm round tek a drink and fly off i tell u cause dat is what the 1st ting I did.. Mi did well vex esee!