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Serving Size 1 trap 45g Recipe makes 1 trap) The following items or measurements are not included below: liquid dish soap |
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| Calories 9 | ||
| Calories from Fat 0 | (0%) | |
| Amount Per Serving | %DV | |
| Total Fat 0.0g | 0% | |
| Saturated Fat 0.0g | 0% | |
| Monounsaturated Fat 0.0g | ||
| Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0g | ||
| Trans Fat 0.0g | ||
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% | |
| Sodium 2mg | 0% | |
| Potassium 32mg | 0% | |
| Total Carbohydrate 0.4g | 0% | |
| Dietary Fiber 0.0g | 0% | |
| Sugars 0.2g | ||
| Protein 0.0g | 0% | |
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Ingredients
- 3-4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 piece of white paper
- 1-2 drop liquid dish soap
Directions
1
Pour apple cider vinegar and drop of dish soap into glass or jar.2
With the paper, make a cone with a 3/4-1" hole on the bottom. The cone should sit on the glass rim without the tip touching the vinegar. You may have to squeeze-shape the cone a bit to prevent gaps between the paper and rim.3
Every day or two, switch out the vinegar. (You'll see when it stops being as potent. The flies/gnats will stop going in.).4
EDITED: I tried a new brand of cider vinegar (darker than the first) with this trap and found that it let the fruit flies live longer--by a week or more! A friend suggested adding a drop or two of dish soap, and it killed the fruit flies even faster--in hours--than the first cider vinegar traps had.
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Featured Reviews for This Recipe
From: Messie Chef
On Aug 26, 2008
Worked like a champ for me! Made as directed. I trapped a ton of those nasty things. The best recipe I've found. Thanks for posting!
From: Diana #2
On Apr 8, 2007
My DH found this on the web somewhere last year, and we were astounded. We only knew of the cider vinegar and liquid soap. There was no mention of the paper. In any case, we put the mixture in a pretty bottle and leave it on the kitchen windowsill. It's amazing. Sometimes we just stand there and watch them literally dive in. 
Hey, we're retired. 
From: BethHallKelley
On Jul 25, 2007
Wow! Wow! WoW!!!! I had already made a batch of another trap and didn't see it turn any of the flies head so I searched some more and found this one. Seconds later I caught my first fly. Yea!!!! Now, about the paper,I simply rolled my paper into a big wide cone, taped it into place and then cut the bottom, the part closest to the solution, into a 1 inch circle. I then added tape to the sides of a little juice glass, around the rim leaving half the strip of tape above the rim, so that when you put your cone into the glass the tape will then secure the paper to glass so no flies will escape. It is catching and killing many as I am posting this now. Thank You,Beth
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