It’s the middle of summer with temperatures rising up to 100F, and it seems that no matter how experienced the composter, at some point bugs will make their way into the house.
In the kitchen and the basement next to the worm composting system, I have fruit fly traps set up that do the trick…for 95% of fruit flies.
However, there’s those stubborn few that seem to knowingly avoid going in the jar and will reproduce at light speed just to annoy me.
How do I take care of this?
In the kitchen, I simply take out my food scraps more often. This takes away all the fun from the bugs.
I also scrubbed the floor and walls, which believe it or not helped immediately! Clearly I don’t do it enough.
There were definitely some splash marks on the wall behind the shelf where I use a janky food processor to make hummus and a juicer to make my daily juice.
As for the worm system in the basement- I let them do their thing until I want to add food scraps to the system. As ridiculous as it sounds, I like to use a small vacuum to suck them up. It takes a few minutes, but once you clear the way it makes it easy to do your thing.
The chances of getting all of them is hit or miss, but over time you’ll win with this method. Any bugs that get out of the system seem to always make their way into the fruit fly trap.
I have to ask- do you have any other tricks for getting rid of fruit flies? I’d love to hear what works and doesn’t work for you.
Stay cool!
-tyler