I havne't even been home much, canning, baking, etc, just working and renovating our basement, and I have those pesky fruit flies, just in a few areas....of our house, like hanging around my bathroom mirror??? Weird or what?? I have cleaned the sink, everyday. wiped everything down, and because my husband works out of town during the week, I work more and hardly even am in the kitchen, just eating toast and stuff for dinner, I always wipe everything down......I am a little compulsive, this is driving me nuts.....Help!!
I fill a small canning jar with cider vinegar and put a piece of saran on top and screw down the ring so the saran is tight and then poke a few holes in it with a skewer or chopstick. The fruit flies get in and drown. I find they come home with me from the grocery store produce. I then have fruit flies in my kitchen and in the bathrooms where I keep the cat litter boxes.
Any container that you can cover the top with saran will work. I like the small canning jars, so I can see how I doing catching the little creeps and I can change them when I've caught a few.
I've been lucky enough not to have a problem, but I read a thread about this awhile back. It said to leave out bowls of beer, wine or vinegar like Kayakado said. You can even put a touch of dish soap in it because it coats their wings and they can't fly away. Also, it's important to pour bleach or amonia down your drains. They live in there. That would explain why they are in the bathroom.
Good luck getting rid of the pesky things!
Renae
I am embarassed to admit this, but once I had them and I cleaned everything....had no fruit out etc.......anyway I was deep cleaning the rest of the kitchen and found one rotten potato in a potato sack and it was covered in them....once I found their food and got rid of it.........they were gone!
OMG! I always get them in the bathroom on the mirror!!! I never understand why? THere's no fruit in there!
mkerton - a few years back I was having a terrible time w/ fruit flies - i'd kill about 5 a day, got rid of the fruit, but every day there were more. I opened an ill-used base cabinet and found a rotten onion under the lazy susan! Literally hundreds of fruit flies!! I was physically ill!
I had a problem too. Isn't it weird that they seem to come out of nowhere?!?!
My solution was an empty bottle, water or pop, cleaned out and dried, and then ranch salad dressing squirted in. I don't know why this works, but they seem to crawl down into the bottle and get stuck in the dressing. It worked quickly too. The trick is to not get any dressing at all on the lip of the bottle or they will sit there and eat it and not get stuck.
I am embarassed to admit this, but once I had them and I cleaned everything....had no fruit out etc.......anyway I was deep cleaning the rest of the kitchen and found one rotten potato in a potato sack and it was covered in them....once I found their food and got rid of it.........they were gone!
Um, just had this happen the other day...soooooo disgusting!
Fruit flies love yeast more than anything! The fermenting fruit has yeast and bear has yeast. That's why they love those things. A great thing to put in a fruit fly trap is some water with yeast like you use for bread, maybe a pinch of sugar. Those flies will like that more than anything 
I hate fruit flies. In our kitchen, I hardly see the things but they really like to hang around mom's bread stuff (she does the breads and I do the pastries). As soon as she opens her jar of sourdough starter, they come flying close. Soooo annoying.
I just got rid of some after a month long batttle. Had them in the kitchen and bathroom ( I agree they like the mirror for some weird reason). The cider vinegar worked. I just put some in a plastic disposable cups and didn't even put the saran on top and they just flew into the cups. Every day there would be a bunch of dead ones on the bottom of the cups. My kids thought it was funny and called them the "Cups of Death". They are now officially gone.
My kids thought it was funny and called them the "Cups of Death". They are now officially gone.
LMAO
I need to try some "Cups of Death" at our house. We never had them until DH grew tomatoes in the garden & brought them in the house. Now the pesky little "rhymes with suckers" are every where!
A couple of months ago we stopped at a roadside fruit stand and bought all kinds of fruits and veggies, well that was when they invaded my house. I lost track of the amount of them I killed. It was bad. Then they got to my bathroom. I've found they like wet areas. Sinks, toilets, etc...When I finally had enough was when they were making their home in my toilet!! Plus it's the only one we have so it's not like I could use another one. It's not right to have to fight the fruit flies just so you can go to the bathroom. I cleaned and cleaned and it just seemed like a losing battle until just recently. I finally got rid of them!!! WOOHOOOO!! (Doing the happy dance!! ) I'm not sure what I did to get rid of them but I they're gone. I will NEVER EVER buy fruit from a roadside stand again!
I can remember when I was growing up watching my mom chase them with the vacum hose 
When you are sure you will not run any more water down your drains, pour at least a 1/2 gallon of bleach down each drain and leave all night. Repeat process in 7 days, that will kill the larve that hatched after the adult ones died. This was told to me as a cheap fix from a person that has a pest control business. They use a much more expensive product, but he said bleach will do the job. I told my friend about it that had bad problems and she is now fruit fly free.
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