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Fruit flies, redux

I’m getting kinda tired of the fruit flies; you can’t even set down a drink at our house and expect to be able to pick it up again sans files. Ick.

So I started an all out campaign. I fully cleaned the kitchen again and made sure there were absolutely no dirty dishes about (I’ve been hard core about that for a week now with little results). We got all of the food - even the potatoes - out of reach.

And I’ve started the fruit fly traps. My goodness, that’s not a lot fun. The first 24 hours with a fruit fly trap caught us a couple of hundred of the buggers. Now I’ve got two fresh traps set out and nothing else for them to munch on.

And I’ve started vacuuming. While it’s nearly impossible to catch a significant number of flies with your hands, you can easily suck them into the vacuum. It’s effective and it feels good, too.

Last year when we had this problem, they died off because winter came. Unfortunately, that’s a long way off.

Anybody know how to get rid of fruit flies?

This is the second summer in a row that we’ve had problems with fruit flies.

I’ve cleaned the kitchen from head to toe. I’ve removed the trash can and gotten rid of all fruit and unwrapped food.

But the fruit flies are everywhere. Actually, I think they’re worse in the house because there’s less food for them in the kitchen.

I don’t suppose anyone has any great suggestions?