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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 trap 45g Recipe makes 1 trap) The following items or measurements are not included below: liquid dish soap
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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Fruit Fly/Gnat Trap

Recipe #187531 | 1 min | 1 min prep | add private note

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By: anonymous23
Sep 25, 2006

This will help take care of those fruit flies that gather around the stuff you have to take out to the compost pile or those bananas you haven't gotten around to baking with yet. The photo I posted (the one with the cherry & grape tomatoes) shows several fruit flies on the paper already (and a couple are in the vinegar, though you can't see them)--not even three minutes after making the trap! Some kinds of cider vinegar work better than others--typically, I find the darker the vinegar, the better it works. I know some people have said they prefer to use plastic wrap over the top, but I find that the paper cone (though it takes some fiddling to get it to fit just right) works best.

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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.).

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From: Chef #1421715

On Oct 21, 2009

Folks, I purchased some fresh fruit the other day. About two days later, I started seeing gnat looking things all over the place. Mostly near the fruit, kitchen sink, and pantry trash container which are all within a 6' radius. I read this "Fruit Fly / Gnat Trap post, went to the store and purchase the Apple cider vinegar, came home, built the trap and within 10 minutes, these gnat things were dying to get in and dying once inside. It's been about 1.5 hours since placing the trap and I'm guessing there are 50 dead gnats in the mixture and many more hanging out on the paper funnel. Works Perfectly!!!

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From: Mister Selatcia

On Oct 14, 2009

We had a pretty bad fruit fly problem. I tried this out and a huge group of fruit flies started swarming on the jar/funnel right away. It worked really well.

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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.

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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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