How To Deal With Fruit Flies And Drain Flies 

Noticed the locks on your cabinets. It's probably a very good decision, as I've yet to witness a fruit fly equipped with even the tiniest bolt cutters.

We had fruit fly problem that was driving us crazy. After months, we figured out the kitchen drain pipe, in the crawlspace was broken. So water and food was draining and festering down there. And the flies were coming through the broken pipe. Fixed the pipe and the fly problem.

I can handle watching a 3 or 4 minute video like this that actually addresses the problem and solution quickly. To all the other RU-vid creators spending 13-18 minutes on this very issue, I passed y'all on by.

Drain Flies........ I've had this issue for two summers now in bathrooms that are rarely used (that's one of the problems) I tried every type of drain cleaner and boiling water and they'd still come back Someone told me to use Dawn dish liquid. Fill the sink bowl pretty high with very warm/hot water and swish the detergent around to make it good and sudsy and pull the plug. I did that every day for a week in each of the drains (shower too) and everything disappeared. Now I make it a habit to do this once a week in each drain. Supposedly since Dawn is famous for cutting grease, it cleans the drains stopping the build-up of eggs from the drain flies. Haven't had a single once since I've been doing this and no harmful chemicals need to be used.

Lmfao the start of the video where he is just clapping at them 😭🤣 thats me rn 💀

I bought several of them little apples they work too. I open them up & I see alot of these annoying fruit flies. I'm also trying bleach in my drains too. Imma try liquid draino next. I don't have any fruit laying around tho. I keep all my fruit in the fridge. Seems like it's more now since it's fall. I didn't see any in the summer. So it must be the drains. Thanx for this video it helped😊

My IQ is up 5 points after watching this

Absolutely hate these flies! Call them little bass-turds. This week I went through 2 cans of Raid, Hot Shot (both of those left an oily residue), Zevo and several acv & dish soap containers. I bombed one time. I think I brought them home on bananas from the grocery store. Got so sick of making the homemade saucer ones. Yesterday I plugged up the drains ran about an inch of hot water in both sinks, poured in some acv and dish soap. Swirled all that together and went to bed. Was amazed at how many flies were in the sink!!! I've seen and killed 4 today. My tips ... treat for them at the first sight (Zevo worked the best of the sprays) shake the cans well before every spray. Don't give up. They won't. By the way, our dollar tree sells a small bottle of acv for $1.25.

Bleach just a cap full

A pot of boiling water is cheaper.

They are so bad right now...all in my face lol

thank you!!!! my parents are slacking on their chores and the house is completely infested

Yesss,they be in my kitchen even when there isn't any fruit lol! Just made some banana bread and here they come👀🤣

If you have cats and leave out wet food for an extended period of time, they will appear. I am struggling to get rid of them with the dawn soap and vinegar mix. I can’t cook or drink without have one fly in front of me. They gotta go like yesterday!

I tried the vinegar, baking soda, and dawn but it didn't work. It killed the flies but not the larva. I bought a gallon jug of Invade bio drain, and poured it down all my sinks in the house for five days (had no clue from which drain they were coming from so I did them all) , in the evening when none of the sinks would be used, and my fly problem stopped. Noticed a big decrease just after the first day. Now I just treat them once monthly.

The problem is Drano and Liquid-Plumber are not good for any Plumbing pipes and any professional will tell you that. It eats away bit by bit at your plumbing and then you're going to be spending thousands of dollars once your sewer line needs to be replaced. I know cuz it happened to me. The only drains that I did not use those products on was the bathroom and the laundry room and the sewer line from that area of the house were fine when checked during the inspection but my kitchen Plumbing literally was chewed up and half gone under the cement slab. Cost over 10 grand to replace.

I can't tell what these little black flying bugs are. They look like gnats but they aren't attracted to any vinegar concoction or fly trap. They also have made their way into the bathroom and bedrooms not just the kitchen and honestly they seem mostly attracted to people, like always hovering around us.

So glad you distinguished the difference between fruit flies and drain flies. My landlord keeps trying to tell me that I’m leaving food out… this helped so much

I never had an issue with these until I had my sewer tank sucked dry. I've used everything on the market & they still come up the drains & fly around. I've used literally spent $1000's on these products & they still come back! I'm lost so tired of messing with these bugs that I'm ready to move

I simply bought a bug zapper and placed it in my kitchen - I love to hear them get zapped lol - Problem solved

Take used water bottle. Cut in half. Take spout end and turn it upside down into the bottom half. Like a funnel. Pour apple cider vinegar, regular vinegar etc. add a drop of dish soap. Swirl gently. Let ferment. Reuses old plastics. You can also put these outside for flies. The stinkier the better. They love it. Those padlocks on the cabinets though.

Awesome video… curious to know why the lock is on the cabinet??? Had to ask lol

Fr people leave food out have stuff everywhere

Am I the only one that thought that there were flies or bugs on the curtains?

I just moved in my house 8 months ago (I'm a renter) and it's literally infested in here with these I have sticky traps hanging up they're all over my house I've clean my drains with bleach, I've clean my drain with baking soda and vinegar with hot boiling water I make sure everything is clean I don't have no fruit laying around and I still can't get rid of them they have been here the whole entire time I have lived here. At this point it's exhausting. I have hundreds of them in my house. No matter how much I clean it does not get rid of them I can set up traps and it does not get rid of them. I'm thinking I might have to call an exterminator.

Thank you. Not trying to sell something just giving the information.

Thank you sm for the video! I have a fruit fly infestation and I wanted to know what to buy before purchasing something!

I've been fighting these flies for years, thanks to you They are gone.

Thank you! Going to try this. It’s so bad in my kitchen . I couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. Must be my drains!

hey Pat - you need to fix that leaky faucet lol

Shout out to all my sink pissers.

I put about an inch of vinegar and a drop of dish detergent in a pretty wine glass and set by the sink or where the fruit is stored. It is amazing how many fruit flies and drain flies it catches.

I hate all F** insects ... especially these little ************ thanks for the tips .

I found that my cordless dyson was a good way to catch them👍 make sure you keep your finger on the power for a minute though as they don't die straight away.

Set up a vinegar trap for them. I cut the top off of a 20 oz soda bottle, poured in vinegar/water mixture, place the cut-off section of the soda bottle upside down, with the mouth of it going inside the bottle. They get in, but they can't get out.

Bio Clean for 5 to 10 days and spray Gentrol Complete in every drain. Drain flies will be gone in 2 weeks guaranteed.

This is awesome. I've used pine sol overnight.

I live in an apartment and i started having issues with these amnoying fruit flies for about a week or so. I finally tried the vingar and soap thing and they falling for it, some of them are smart. Yes these things are annoying

I think what we have are drain fly larvae...they just crawl around til I murder them. But...they're ALWAYS back

What with the locks on the doors?????????

Does anyone know what to do in my bathroom they’re are these little bugs that are like orange and smaller than ants that keep crawling out from my sink in my bathroom and they won’t stop

The thing you don't mention, and I really wish you would have, because I have these little pests in abundance, is what those substances you put in your drain do to your septic system.

I use a small tupperware container, I would put about 15 to 20 very tiny holes in the cover using a very thin phillips head screwdriver, then on the reverse side of the cover put peanut butter on the corners but not too close to the holes, and then put apple cider vinegar into the base of the tupperware container and close it with the cover, put the closed container next to the sink for 24/48 hours and all of the flies will be inside the container.

Can you put this in the toilet

use a adjustable mist to stream spray bottle put some cleaning agent concentrate or dishsoap in the bottle and fill with water if you have light coiored surfaces and cabinets the flies like to land and congregrate. once you can locate the main hoard of them usually tiny dots on surfaces you then use inbetween mist and spray on the bottle so the stream is mostly straignt beam with maybe slight mistto widen its range slightly.....if this makes sense so far...now you can come into the area you wish to eradicate these asshole flies...you assault them with the spray bottle they start weaving around but you can quickly become deadly with the spray bottle. if the flies are close to a wall sort of hovering once u aim u may spray three times before you hit it but ull hit it and it will slam the flies against the walls and they get stuck and die from the cleaner or bleach in the bottle....ive tried traps and all that stuff...this is by far the fastest and most satisfying way i think to kill them other than getting close to them with a butane torch and melting the wings off them as they try and fly so the body just falls now but it tries to survive then you smash it and laugh maniacally. also ive noticed when the flies you typically get from bananas have a chance to breed they can get super annoying.....if you start depraving them of their typical food sourcce they will start eating weird stuff...i seen them on sliced pork roast from air fryer....meat weird...but if you have 2nd generation or more of them you`ll notice some fly slow but disappear but some run really fast randomly like they are tweaking out but they are easier to successfully smash without them flying away....when the food source they are mainly thriving on changes over generations their behavior is different and if you make them desparate they will try and keep flying right in your face almost like they are attacking u.

Thank you! What you’ve shown is working for me.

The only thing that works for me is those apples. I wish you could find the juice alone for refills. I hate having to keep buying apples/juices every week.

There Have Been (I Think) Gnats & Phorid Flies In My House For Years & I Wanna Kms So Badly My Parents Don't Do Anything Abt Them Omg Gnats/Phorid Flies Are Worse Than Mosquitoes You Can't Change My Mind

PLEASE HELP! For some reason for the past couple of month we have had millions of fruit flies in our home, and we have no idea where they're coming from. We've lived in this house for over 10 years, and any time we've ever gotten a few fruit flies in our home, it's always been because we have something starting to rot in our fruit basket that sits on our countertop. We then throw away the rotting fruit or veggie, and the flies disappear within a day. However, now we suddenly have what seems like millions of them in our home, and we have no idea where they're coming from. We've eliminated all fruits and veggies sitting out in our kitchen, we've made certain to keep the countertops whipped down, and our trash gets taken out daily, and we've even bleached every sink, shower and tub drain in our home. However we still have thousands of these things buzzing around. We have these little clear stick on insect strips we put on our windows, and within a couple of day, they get so full of those little fruit flies, we have to change them out. Every single day we have to change out our dog's water at least three times a day because it fills up with fruit flies. WTH?!!! I've started putting out little dishes filled with a solution of apple cider vinegar, water, sugar and dish soap, and while they do work to catch a bunch of them, they just keep on coming. We're totally at a loss as to where they're coming from, and what to do about them. In the decade we've lived in this home, we've never had anything like this before. Please help if you're able.

🌬📢💨Spray yr home w/essential 😏ils.

They like to hang out in your out waste cans too!

That lock is put in place by his wife so he does not get into cookies

LOL. BEEN CLAPPING ALL DAY AROUND HERE ! So annoying!

I don't like using Draino too much, because it can be corrosive on the pipes (initial plumbing might be PVC, but down the line, at some point, they connect to metal pipes) and it causes an awful smell that never seems to go away after too many uses. For my fruit fly problem, and it was bad this year, I just cut the top 1/4 off a water bottle, put 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar with a squirt of dish soap in the bottom, then covered the top with plastic wrap (taped so it stays tight) and poked some small holes in the top. If the holes are too big, the fruit flies will escape, so tiny holes work better. Within just 3-4 days, the problem was gone. I had to dump it out and refill it each day, because there were literally hundreds of dead fruit flies in the bottom. I couldn't believe it.

I read that cleaning here and there with Pine Sol will run away house flies. Anyone know if using Pine Sol would deter and chase away Fruit Flies? I just havent broke down yet and bought a bottle! Funny thing, I found an old bottle of Pine Sol with 2 drops in the bottom stuffed among Mom's old cleaners! It had a 99 cent sticker on it. Looking online the local Walmart sells the same 32oz bottle of Pine Sol NOW for $6. !!! $14. for 32 oz of Drain Defense mentioned here.... GESH! Who'd of thought flies could be so expensive!

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Why do they fly all.over the house so annoying

What worked for me is I poured some Apple Cider vinegar in a small Tupperware lid and it caught a ton of fruit flies!

Good info thanks for sharing.

Pregnant fruit fly: "that fake apple is apple'n gots to go in and do the thang" 😆

Thanks dude. I really appreciate you! We're not sure how these guys are entering and/or what they even are exactly. I live in a 4 by 4 condo unit and 2 of the other residents had water issues within the walls. So I assume it's from that. They came really bad last year, and much, MUCH worse this year. We thought they were Fungus Gnats however, we don't have indoor plants. It's maddening!

That fly killer has such a bad rating.

I've got them in my bathroom (no fruit here) and have to keep re spraying them dead. But how do I find where they are coming from?

Does anyone else's liquid evaporate before it catches flies

We used to have one in the urinal at work. So everyone would play "hydrate the fly"😂😂

My house is full of them every room I don't know where they're coming from...seems like the walls. I have both fruit and drain flies I can't eat at home no more I cannot relax. A considerate lodger did this to me. His room was gross...2 years later I'm still paying for it...they drive you mad

Didn't know about (drain) flies. Fruit flies yes. Thanks for sharing this. 👍

TY those little fruit flies have giving me the business ALL SUMMER! I never thought of seeing if there were ACTUAL PRODUCTS to use--duhhh--ty learn something everyday!

I used my car vacuum and it took me about 2 minutes and now they’re gone.

At night, heat a pot of water about 64oz, add 1/2 cup of Harm/Hammer baking soda down the drain, then add either apple or white vinegar (about)1/4 cup down the drain. It will bubble , wait 2minutes and add another 1/4 cup of vinegar then wait another 2minutes and add all the hot water. Do this every night for 5 days, then weekly. For the ones that are flying, put water, tablespoon of dish soap and vinegar mix with a fork to form bubbles in a saucer and leave on counter the counter and change every other night

Why is there a padlock on your cabinet?😂

A friend leaves empty alcohol bottles around, this explains so much. Im gonna try and help her out also get rid of the empty bottles.

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Can’t get rid of them . I tried the apple cider vinegar. Never see the coming out of drain .

The swatting is sending meee😂😂😂😂

That apple does not work well. I took it and put some sticky bug paper around mine and the fly gets stuck on the paper. I caught 180 fruit flies in 5 days, only four were inside the apple.

I've had thousands of drain flies, fungus and fruit flies this summer. They came in from outside. Drain flies and fungus flies are not remotely interested in fruit or veggies. They want to get in the drains or into sources of standing water. It is very important to investigate the status of your sewer pipe when this happens, because it can indicate there is a small leak. In the end this was my problem.

Why do go in my bed room

Even though it can be damaging I used myratic acid....they were all gone next morning and it was bad but i only mixed a quarter cup with a cup water so not to damage anything.. and poured it in....i got up next day they were gone...we had them about a month it was getting worse....

I used a praying mantis once. Caught him in the garden and dropped him by the sink. He did it good, no chem. Took him a minute but he cleared them out and left. Convenient. Freaked my kids out for a week and a half when he would crawl out of the drain.

What bugs me the most, is that although the flies are easy enough to kill (soapy water), the larvae are not. I finally found where they were hanging out in my shower by pouring vinegar into every little crevice. About an hour later I go check, and there’s worms wriggling around all over. Didn’t even know they had that stage. So I decided to see how soap worked. It got to the point where I dumped straight liquid soap on them, and they still just crawled through it.

I didn’t realize it but there was a flat blackened banana on my dresser… I saw one or two flying around a few weeks or so ago and now it’s a whole community 💀 already did the thing with the drains, but gonna have to try it your ways too.

This guy sounds like a saleperson. Does he work for Procter & Gamble?

I had drain flys living within the walls of my shower door. They don’t just stay in the drain

I'd take this advice much more seriously if there weren't fruit flies infesting his house lol

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Seen a fruit fly swimming in out the vinegar then I put dish soap in it , it die.

Mine are always in kitchen

What about bleach down the drain?

Is that the liquor cabinet? 🥃

Thank you. 👍👍

Sounds like trump

Citronella is such a scam

Nah because explain the whole lock on the cabinet 😂😂

Thank you for making this video 🙏🏼

What liquid?

Turn the water on?

I'm hoping that someone can recommend a product that will help me eliminate gnats from my apartment. I have already done the obvious things, such as getting rid of left-over food and empty soda cans, but the gnats are still there. I am going to be away from my apartment for about a week and a half, and I'm hoping there is some kind of aerosol can that I can use while I am away. I would like something that I can activated and work while I am away. Any ideas? Thanks.

If there is a bunch in the drain i run the disposal and put a lot of soap in until the disposal fills up the sink with bubbles which will take all the flies in the drain and flush them out. After that i apply the drain treatment like he did. The soap will fill the pipes and grabs all of them in the process. Works for me.

Get em' OUT