Tried this split into 2 bowls after i mixed it and nothing happened. Very disappointed.munkin

Hi .. had (and still have) way too many fruit flies in my house, mainly in the kitchen and I have put out the apple cider vinegar traps, using empty 500 ml water bottles and doing the whole inverted top thing, etc, etc, not to mention doing the whole "brave little tailor" thing and swatting 40-50 at least twice a day. While I have caught innumerable fruit flies, I still have hordes of them in the kitchen, a swarm now in the living room and the odd 2 or 3 in the upstairs rooms. I would have thought that catching/killing up to 200 a day would somehow slow them down but I'm beginning to think that I should just move. Of course I can't do that and need MORE HELP!

The homemade traps DO work but I can't seem to make any headway .. do I need 20 or 30 of them or some in each room in the house or what????

We recently had a major infestation of fruit flies in our kitchen after forgetting a bag of plums from a friend for over a week. Yuck! We tried the funnel traps with vinegar, rotten banana, and even beer. First off, the banana worked OK, the beer didn't work great either, and the vinegar made the whole house stink terribly. Then we noticed a jar of salsa left out was teaming with the little buggers. So we set up a funnel trap using plain old Pace salsa, and have caught tons more than any of the previous traps, without any smell. Hey, I know how these little things can drive you crazy, so anything is worth a shot! Hope this helps someone else. ^_^

sounds kinda like
carpet beetles
doyourownpestcontrol.com has some things to take care of them

I have heard that fleas in the yard don't like Eucalyptus scent and if you have a Eucalyptus tree or bush in the yard you will not have fleas.

I would be tempted to spray a scented Eucalyptus cleaner or what ever into the carpet and the other places where your pets sleep. It might work,

The last time I had a flea outbreak I didn't even have animals, it must have been from the people that lived there before me. Of course I am allergic to fleas and get big whelps where they bite me. I brought out the big guns and sprayed everything with an insect chemical killer.

There is also a product that kills the eggs as well as the adult fleas, that keeps you from having to spray again.

Diane

Down here in the south I use a fly swatter, I have one in every room. Thank goodness I don't get many. I want screen doors when I leave the patio open everything comes in.

Lorace as far as the rats I think I would get a couple of big cats or a dog all of these kill rats, another way to kill a rat, fill a metal barrel with water about 1/4 the way up then put something dead in the bottom that a rat likes, put a slat leading up to the barrel so the rat can climb up to the top of the barrel. When they go in for the bait they can't get out again. I used this method to kill the oppusums(sp)it worked well.

Diane

what is a good easy home remadie to get rid of fruit flys in the home.

We were infested with fruit flies recently. I had mistakenly left a bag of apples from apple picking in a corner of the dining room and forgot about them. Yuk! After surfing on the internet for ways to get rid of them, I did the following:

1. Threw away or refrigerated any food that was left out on the counter. This means everything - no fruit bowl, no ripening bananas, nothing. Bagged all bread in the bread box in ziploc bags.

2. Scoured the kitchen - counters, floor, crevices. Swept, vacuumed, washed down EVERYTHING, even the toaster.

3. Poured bleach down the kitchen drains and let sit for a little bit, then flushed the drains for a few minutes with water.

4. Disposed of all trash in the kitchen every day. If there were fruit peels or cores, immediately outside.

5. Set up three jelly jars with about an inch of red wine plus one drop of dishwashing detergent and a paper cone taped to the inside. The cone had a very small (about 2mm) hole at the bottom. I chose red wine because my husband and I noticed one night before we started dealing with this problem that as soon as we looked away from our wine glasses, a half dozen or so fruit flies had dive-bombed the glasses and were drowning. Yuk. We used Merlot :-)

The flies really loved the wine. We captured over a dozen within minutes of setting up the traps. I changed the wine in the traps daily, spilling out the wine-and-flies mixture outside in the woods. That was last week. I haven't seen a fly in a few days. Hope this helps someone out there.

did anyone else notice how many hits this thread has! I guess a lot of people have flea problems !

Yeah, I also had a major flea problem. The only sure fire way to get rid of the little buggers is frontline, then to flea bomb the house. it's a pain in the butt, but i wish i would have just sprung for the frontline instead of paying just as much for solutions that didn't work. good luck.

How do i get rid of a groundhog which is under my deck, possibly against the house?

Awful problem, I know. We had gophers who made tunnels in our yard and uprooted lots of plants in doing so.

We have used poison, but can't anymore because of the danger to our dog. As I remember it, we flooded their tunnels with water. Plug up one end if you know where it is, and put the hose down and run the water.

That's the only way we ever got rid of them.

Good luck,

Lorace