You can find anything on the Internet

A certain someone who I know – who will remain nameless – is experiencing a bit of a problem with fruit flies in her kitchen. So she searched the web for solutions to get rid of them. Here’s a note she sent me about the solutions she found:

Here are my favorite methods for getting rid of fruit flies.

1. Make an oven trap
Remove all available food from kitchen. Clean the dishes, place open items in ziplock bags or the fridge. Open the door of your oven and place a piece of fruit (banana or kiwi peels) in there overnight. Wake up early the next morning and quietly close the oven door. Turn on the oven to 400ºF/200ºC for about 10-15 minutes and majority of your fruit flies will be gone. Clean the oven thoroughly.

2. Hair dryer method
Locate the general area of the fruit flies and the nearest plug. Get a hair dryer. Plug in the hair dryer, turn it on (preferably to full heat) and put the back end of the dryer near a hovering fly. It will be sucked in and fried by the hair dryer. This is fun and highly effective! Trying to blow at them with the hot air doesn't work well, but sucking them in like this does.

But really, I’m trying 3 methods. The banana trap, the vinegar trap, and the wine trap. All 3 have interested victims. The suspense is killing me.

I’ll keep you all posted on the results – because I’m sure you’ll be on the edge of your seats