Help with Fruit Flies!

[yvette]

I swear I do my best to clean out my birds cages and keep the kitchen as clean as possible, but the other day, we noticed an invasion of fruit flies (knats)all over the kitchen. After some research, we noticed an orange had fallen behind a counter and had spoiled. The orange has long since been removed and the area cleaned, yet these buggers wont leave me home. Now they are all over the house...bathrooms, kitchen, bird cages, even my computer monitor as I sit here and type even though there is absolutly NO FOOD HERE!!! What can I do? I cant even give my poor baby a piece of fruit because they all swarm to him. I wait till he is done and immediatly cleam up the mess he made, change the paper and clean the cage (to remove any fruit juice or rinds- whatever!) and they still linger. What is the gestation of these pests and anyone have any idea how to safely remove them? This is getting REALLY annoying!!!

[lovemyGreys]

Yvette here is a link to a good site which has some great tips.....

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Fruit-Flies

[judygram]

Thanks Tracy for that link to getting rid of fruit flies, we can always count on you for jumping right in there and getting help for our members.

[yvette]

Thanks so much! I love the oven method!:evil: We feel like pig pen from Charlie Brown, but replace the dirt that hoveded over him with these darn flies! lol

[siobha9]

Thanks Tracey, I have a fruit fly problem too. Not a bad one, but they are annoying little devils! And they scare Oisin when they buzz in his face.

 

Karma for the great ideas!

[judygram]

Yvette, that is a good description of how those darn knats look when disturbed, graphic but true.:woohoo: