Tuesday Tweet of the Week: Dang Fruit Flies!!!

Pesky little fruit flies. No rotten fruit. No decaying carcass on my counter. So what’s the deal? Why do these annoying little flies continue to invade my kitchen? I’ve even seen a couple upstairs and that got me riled up!

After clearing my counters, putting things in the refrigerator and smashing as many as I possibly can in my fingers, I’d had enough. I did what anyone in the 21st century would do…when you don’t know where to turn, ask your Twitter followers. I got an amazing number of responses on how to wipe out the population in my kitchen.

A few of the best @Replies from the Twitterverse on fruit flies…

@boblegault Fruit Flies. Cantaloupe in a small bowl, under plastic wrap, lift an edge. Flies can’t escape. Take outside, or squish ‘em.

@breanne_d cup of vinegar, saran wrap the top & seal with an elastic, poke tiny holes in the top of saran wrap with a tooth pick

@StretchChi sugar water in a jar. Cover with celophane and poke little holes. They crawl in but can’t fly out. They die a very sweet death

@Steffieflies Do you have any potted plants inside your house? They feed off fungus on the plants, so you might want to get a fungicide…