Hi there,

ahh..I've been under severe attack of these creepy tiny specie ...
I'm so frustrated, no matter how hard I try to get rid of them, they are still there and apparently reproducing with a speed pretty close to the speed of light..
well, I've tried brute force, with a lot of effort, as its graphically obvious! : (viewer discretion is advised )
http://i.imgur.com/8nfLI.jpg


and I've tried this coop's hanging sticky solutions (http://www.brige.ch/wordpress/?p=2545) and I've already hung couple of them in my small apartment, and even though a good number of them has got caught, but it looks as if nothings has happend and the population size looks as same as before if not larger..
But no matter what I CAN'T GET RID OF THEM !

So please ! if you know of any fatal methodology I would be more than grateful if you let me know before I drawn in fruit-fly-sea ...

thanks

Keep your bananas away from other fruit, throw food and fruit into a composter or into the communal bins.

As bananas ripen , they give off Nitrogen , to which fruit flies are attracted.

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

If you are already that frustrated, you might have tried the following already, but just in case...

First and formost: get rid of their food, although sometimes the food source is not what you expect.

I.e. put the fruit in the fridge (or out in the hall, given the momentary temperatures), as fruit flys do not like cold temperatures. Sometimes they are going after overly damp potted plants or the earth of the potted plant. They even were eating a really old plum my daughter dropped behind the couch when I had a major fruit fly attack last time. You should be able to figure out what the food source is by seeing where the swarm is moving. Garbage is also well liked, again the good old cold hall trick.

Hope some of that helps

I liked the last sentence and thanks for the comments but apparently my problem is beyond banana...As far as I am aware there's no food source left for them but they are still there..a huge bunch of them are just enjoying their time on my luggages and stuff for about 24 hours, now what the heck are they thinking, no idea...interestingly this afternoon i found them around milk ! and unbelievably in a bag of DRIED nuts !!!

apparently, they're going through one of the most serious genetic mutation in their evolution history at my house ...

Fill a wineglass with vinegar and add a few squirts of washing up liquid. Leave it next to where they appear to be the most dense for a few days.

They will be attracted to the vinegar and try to land on it. The washing up liquid will decrease the surface tension thus they down as soon as they land.

Cheers,
Nick

Are you sure you're dealing with fruit flys and not with food moths (German: Mehlmotten). Those eat all foods, flours and will go after wool in a pinch...they love nuts, and I have yet to hear of a fruit fly that does.
If thats what it is, the food infested should have stringy bits like a web at a very infested stage, and there will be little white larvae....very yucky

OP, a fruit fly's reproductive cycle is approx. 20 mins. So they can multiply quickly.

Reminds me of a classic...

Never forgotten. RIP

Oh no..i know that nasty creatures pretty well, as last year about the same time they destroyed pretty much everything in my house and I had fought them for 3-4 months to get rid of them completely..no its just fruit flies..you can see their dead bodies on the picture in the first post..

Globol do a Fruchtfliegenfalle which is pretty effective. Available in Germany at dm chemists (or Rossmann), don't know about Switzerland.

Finito done the job for me. Simple Insektenspray in coop.
Merely closed doors and windows in infected area, sprayed heavily, left room, 5 mins or so later they had most all dropped like, er....flies.

The rest were the victims of a double tea towel windmill attack

The vinegar trick worked for me, plus vacuuming any I saw....yes, I was on a mission.

That helps! I always use a little juice, a little vinegar and dish soap. Leave the glass out for a while, they will all drown in the liquid.

I had good luck with about a half-glass of red wine covered with plastic wrap, into which a few small holes had been punched. Little suckers could not help themselves; they smelled the wine, found the holes and went into the glass thinking it was a huge fruit fly fête. Then they drowned while in a drunken stupor, I suppose.

You must leave the wine out for a few days, though, because invariably there are a few of them who like to hook up before they go to the party!

Where did you hear that nonsense? Most ripening fruits produce ethylene, which in turn accelerates the ripening process.
Bananas also fluoresce when ripening, which is thought to attract some species.

Used this method myself - works extremely well; I tried a lot of potions (vinegar, cider..) but the red-wine solution is, by a mile, the best and comes highly recommended. Giving the kitchen a super-clean also helps.

Cheers,
Chris

Wine will kill most, and the rest .. Trap them !
No food outside , except for one stinky source in a bag, all the flies go in the bag in a few hours , then quickly tie the bag

Damm spell checker Whatever. They give off a gas when ripening to which the fruit flies are attracted to, have a look inside a composting bin full of banana skins.