How to get rid of drain flies in your house with a chemical-free fruit fly trap? First let’s talk about the most common natural home solution: apple cider vinegar and dish soap to kill fruit flies. There is a big problem with these solutions: they don’t work very good. In addition your bar will smell very bad!
Urban legend that doesn’t work most of the times: What Kind of Spray will Kill Fruit Flies? In addition to the above homemade traps, you can also use a spray to repel fruit flies. According to graduate students at UNC, fruit flies don’t have a “nose” to smell with. Instead, they rely on their antennae to detect the odor in the air. One method of creating your own homemade fruit fly spray is to mix two cups of water and a few drops of essential oil (e.g. rosemary, peppermint, lemongrass). Mix well before you apply the spray on the fly-infested areas. Pet owners should take extra safety precautions with essential oils. They are made of natural ingredients but some types of essential oils can be toxic to cats and dogs.
But the problem is that, most of the times, this solution doesn’t work, fruit flies will appear again and you will also have a problem with the bad smell from this “natural” solution. Vinegar is a very strong and pungent liquid – it’s just not fun having that available in the house. Especially if there are kids around. Do you want dead flying insects floating around on their kitchen counter, table, bar, or restaurant?
Eco friendly nontoxic bug trap to get rid of drain flies in your home that works? Try Eon Luxe today! UV light attracts fruit flies, mosquitoes, drain moths. When the flying pests see ultraviolet light, they are naturally lured in the direction of the source of UV rays. Eon Luxe Solutions Ultraviolet light lures the flies over a 320 square foot area and works best in a closed, dark room. Eon Luxe Solutions Pest Vortex uses vacuum action to collect tiny flying insects and pull them into the removable retention cage. Once collected, pests are prevented from escaping by the whisper-quiet fan with continuous operation then landing them onto the no-escape glue pad. Discover additional info at Chemical-free fruit fly trap.
Fruit flies prevention tip (it’s easier to prevent!) : Clean the fruit you bring in: This is going to be tough to hear, but if fruit flies keep getting in somehow, it’s possible they’re using you to get in. Don’t feel guilty, you were an unwitting pawn in their master scheme. One way to prevent your dastardly foe from manipulating you for their own purposes yet again is to wash all the fruit you bring into the office as soon as you get in. Even if you bought your apple that morning, a fruit fly could’ve found it and snuck aboard at any point on your commute, even if it never left your bag. It’s not consciously trying to get into your office, but you bring it there and once it gets a look around, it settles in and lays eggs. So… wash your fruit when you bring it in! Easy peasy.
UV light attracts the bug: I bet you didn’t know that drain flies, fruit flies, and mosquitoes are attracted to certain spectrum of UV light! Well, they do, believe it or not. Which is why this Eon Luxe device works wonders to attract fruit flies to it, without the need of awful, pungent smelling vinegar. The whisper-quiet fan sucks the fruit fly or gnat into the device: Once they are attracted to the device by the light, the bug starts to migrate near the Eon Luxe device. When they get too close, the fan sucks them. The flies goes through a no-escape cone-shaped vortex: The fruit fly is then pushed down through a vortex that allows entry in, but no exit out. See additional info on Get rid of fruit flies.