I Am Under Attack

For some strange and unknown reason, my home for the first time is under attack from a swarm of fruit flies!

What to do?

They just seem to buzz around my kitchen and I don't know why.

I mean I am not your typical 'five-a-day' fruit freak - so what do they want from me?

I did a bit of 'Google' to find out what they are all about. Apparently they come up via the kitchen sink hole. Now I reside on the second floor of a fairly large block - I would imagine that my sink hole drainage would be far more difficult to navigate than any worldwide metro system - unless they employ their own guides!

One needs to continually put bleach down the sink hole.

I did a bit of research: the fruit fly does not bite or cause any medical problems. They are just a bloody nuisance. The life of a fruit fly is around forty days - but then, if settled can create many babies. The fruit fly is not seasonal so can be a pest all year round.

Remedies: I have looked at many and so far the jury is out on what is the best..,

Products on Amazon that can cost ten to fifteen pounds, seem not to work. One solution via the social network is to create traps. I first began by spraying them all with an expensive spray that would kill a wasp. I could hear them all laughing at me. They appear to thrive on rotten fruit, so I created three traps from old tin cans. I put in crushed grapes etc., then put on a cling film lid with many small holes and hey presto it seemed to work. I caught many and my numbers went down - but not all gone.

I then read on-line that the best way to trap fruit flies is the following..,

1. Find a small pot.

2. Pour in some apple cider.

3  Add a drop of washing up liquid

4. Place on top some cling film.,

5  Then make some small holes.

So I did this today. So far the little blighters are going nowhere near it. I imagined that they would all get excited with the fumes of my eight per cent apple lager, climb in the little holes and then get so drunk they could not find their way out of the little holes. Not so. I guess all my little fruit flies are teetotalers!

Could not figure out the washing up liquid - I mean are they all socially distancing and need to wash their hands?

So please, anybody out there who has a solution to my fruit fly problem - Please help me!