Catch fruit flies (Drosophila) with vinegar

[SpinitlikegarenHacks]

I need live fruit flies for my little praying mantises -_- not drown flies xD

[twilghtlover131]

ahhh I need some for a project. I dont want to kill them though :/

[Mr420rush]

@twilghtlover131 you can put a banana peel in a jar and cover the top with a peice of plastic and poke holes then put elastic on it (to make it tight ) they will crawl in and not able to come out

[Akhyra8]

Thanks so much for posting this!! I got to deal with these little bastards recently due to a rotten plant. I threw away the plant but they did not follow it to the garbage lol I have tried so far with red wine vinegar cos its way cheaper but tomorrow first thing gonna buy the cider one. They get my respect cos they are damn smart and I like smartness but I do want them to die or leave peacefully to another rotten place haha

[ScaleScole]

hahahaha I feel so evil doing this, but also happy, cause i hate them. So its a good evil >:))

[wolvesforever100]

fruit fly-"hey! you guys are having a pool party? can I join?!"

dead fruit flies- ...........

fruit fly- Yay! thank you! *hops in glass* "wait..i dont know how to swim.." -.-;

Rofl! XD

[PVumbe]

I did exactly what you said.

They would fly/walk around the cup, but they wouldn't drown.

Help?

[dduk8926]

@PVumbe get plastic wrap put it on top of the cup or bowl and poke holes in it. they can get in but they are to stupid to find a way back out.

[PVumbe]

@dduk8926 Haha, yeah. It worked! Thanks. :)

[neil9327]

I've put out a dish with vinegar, and it has killed 4, but none of the others are going in.

I think they've seen their friends die, and don't want to join them.

Come on little flies, the water's warm. Why don't you come for a swim? evil laugh...

[nutsincerel655]

mr260gamess brought me here

[Champion9255]

thanks my house has a huge infestation

[PVumbe]

Wouldn't the house smell like Vinegar?

[MrDarkTides]

@PVumbe No it would not

[cincinatus90]

i put apple vinager mixed with bleach, death abounds.

[6023667443]

How disappointing. It didn't work for me, but when I covered the glass with a plastic wrap and tide it with rubber band around then I poked a small hole in the center of the plastic wrap and I noticed a lot of flies got in the glass and were trapped; eventually they drowned. GOOD NEWS: as soon as you put out the apple cider vinegar the flies start flying around it. BAD NEWS: the apple cider vinegar stinks and will stink your house.

[POONyukfai]

glory

[Kranda123]

I've been catching flies with my bare hands since age of 4... i win. Them motherfuckers dont stand a chance against my lightning fast insectiod ass kicking techniques! BOOYAH

[SpadesNeil]

Bullshit you catch more flies with honey.

[candaceandmike1]

I followed the directions but it didn't work.  Maybe different fruit flies have different tastes.

[ThePTStudios]

lol just clean your trash because they are coming for that (especially the fruit trash)

[gilder37]

red works just fine! I poured some water and mixed it with a little dishwashing soap, then put in the same amount of water as red wine vinegar and walla! i must've catched a thousand fruit flies in it.

Also I love watching them suffer as soon as they hit the vinegar (:<

[2goirish]

@gilder37

I just found a ton in my red wine bottle. They were alive and kicking and I always leave my vinegar out so it's pretty sick (no lid, just the spout like in a restaurant). I think the like the red wine because they were definitely attracted to it and still alive in it. I moved all of my vinegar into the fridge after a thorough cleaning.

[BeautyofClaudia]

we've been getting these annoying pest in my house, my mom and i just use our hands, or sometimes i use a towel and wack'em. i hate when they get in your face so annoying lol ^_^

[Damithe909]

I redirected all the flies into my brothers bedroom, he's going to get a little surprise when he comes back from work LOL

[BeautyofClaudia]

@Damithe909 lol that's mean, but funny ^_^

[TheSecretDiary]

Thanks for your video. Thanks.

[wl03bu]

mine don't seem to be going into the vinegar, just dancing around the edge.

[Damithe909]

I still prefer flame thrower

[ekocentric]

I love the flies killing recipe with Wagner's music. Is it because Wagner was Hitler's favorite? Or because during operation Valkyrie Hitler was almost asasinated? Or because Satan was called the Lord of the Flies?

Just joking, I love this info. FYI I wipe my face and head area before working in my garden to keep the flies away.

[dave4468]

IF YOU SEE HUNDREDS OF YOUR LITTLE FLY RELATIVES DEAD, WHY GO IN?? DUMBASS FRUIT FLIES

[Cully1994]

Dude I just found some Apple Vinegar it worked as soon as I poured it I didn't even get to put up the bottle I was pouring about three of them immediately went after it

[swordofkings128]

I'm going to try this as we've been having a bit of a fruit fly problem at my house...

I just wish they would FLY far away from here rather than BUGging out all the time. :D

[laylo777]

Now drink up!

[oidiane]

Good job choosing the music to go with this!

[molekylmartin]

That's Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie. I go bananas with that music.

[CJDiggs]

@molekylmartin my fruit flys go bananas for bananas

[sinetwo]

@molekylmartin Ser ut til at fruitflies'ene gikk bananas de også. Jævla bastards. Good job though! :D

[javertim]

@molekylmartin -- Actually, it's the Act 1 Prologue to "Die Walkure." Quite appropriate! :-)

[oidiane]

Best trap I have ever used! Dish soap is the trick. I have used jars baited with vinegar/or bananas with paper cones or lids, but they stay alive for quite a while. The soap breaks up the surface tension of the liquid so they sink and die. No need for a cone or lid. I use a small cup with a tablespoon of water a couple drops of dish soap and a tablespoon of apple cider vinager. That's all you need. I can't believe how many I catch in one day. Works only if fruit & food are not available.

[SDRockman]

YES it DOES work! Did you read the description for the recipe that works? Did you use WHITE vinegar instead of RED vinegar? Check that you are adding the right amounts, as I have used this plenty of times as I HATE fruit flies with an unnatural passion....

[nadserellie69]

Can they survive a Vermont winter in my bathroom?

[verocity]

I hate these fucking bastards with a passion, its october now and i still have them! I cant get rid of them, i bleached drains bleached counters bleached drains in bathroom and kitchen still appear!!!! argh

[danspare]

Around these blacks you cant relax.

[release2]

Thanks for the recipe. I made a trap like this but also placed a paper cone, with a hole cut off the tip, facing down. Then taped it to the cup around the outside. It works! They get in, and most aren't smart enough to get back out - but some are.

I felt a little bad watching two of them on the top side of the cone. Two were following and "kissing" each other then scurrying away. One (I assumed the female) then deserted the male, and went inside and almost instantly drowned. LMAO. Poor male.

[rapidzmyrapidz]

i hate these damn bugs. they wont go away no mattter how much i clean. and my lil siss dont help at all leaving all sweets out. me and my bro just spray them with bleach lol! but we have trash in our garage cos trouble with bills... we arent poor. but plz dont say bad comments about me.

[reksub10]

another good way to get rid of the fruit flies is CLEAN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE

[ctsfinestjon]

lol.I like fruit flies.Dtas why i typed to search it.Why r u guys watchin this and how did u stumble in to it.Did u type it down like me.Fruit flies are awesome

[sansdanger]

the electric fly swatter is way more fun and faster. i dont think there is anything left of those flies after

[Faygo069]

can this actually attract more fruit flies?

[apexaddicted]

Hmm...never had much luck with white vinegar. But I'm currently performing fruit flies genocide with apple cider vinegar and the glass/paper cone trap. I've seen 5 fly in since I started the video!

[derekwwww]

why add water (and dilute the vinegar)?

[molekylmartin]

I want to spend as little money and effort on those bastards as possible. If you do it with cheap white vinegar, I suppose you don't have to dilute it. I usually use my homemade cidervinegar, which I make from my home made apple cider. Lots of work behind! Therfore - dilution :D

[Kenzbabiesmama]

@molekylmartin Lol '' on those bastards as possible'' haha Thanks for the recipe I want to know what kind of detergent do you use ? Dish, laundry ?

[weatherleaf]

omg thank you for this 8D I'm trying this right now. God I wouldn't have to deal with a swarm of flies in my kitchen if my dad hadn't left ice cream sitting in the garbage can for a week. And he's supposed to be in charge of taking the trash out too. =_=

[mikeokhurtz]

hey what kind of detergent?

laundry? or any ?

[honeylocs2008]

I've made it using a few drops of Dawn dish detergent, but any dish detergent should work fine.

[molekylmartin]

As honeylocs said: any dish detergent will do it. Actually anything that lowers the surface tension. Liquid soap should work fine as well.

[jf09]

@honeylocs2008 what if i dont have dish detergent just dish soap

[thewishmaster87]

I need to catch the fruit flies without killing them,how I have to do?

I need the drosophila for biological experiment (CLB Test)

[snazzqueen]

I've been able to catch fruit flies without killing them by putting vinegar in a cup, putting plastic wrap over the cup, held in place by a rubber band, and punching small holes in the cup with a wooden skewer. For some reason, they can get in, but generally can't figure out how to get out.

[thewishmaster87]

stupid insects XD

however,thank you so much!

[RachelEMacD]

@snazzqueen I tried that by punching tiny holes in the lid of a yogourt container and putting an overripe banana inside. The flies went in but were mostly unable to get out. Some of them were small enough though, and you have to empty it soon or they start to breed in there!!! Arghhhh!!!

[PublicWifi]

@snazzqueen Because, as we all know, fruit flies are an endangered species, thus requiring an intensive catch and release program. Kidding.

[KellieMarie99]

KAY.

so basicly,

not to sound stupid but do you ALREADY have to have like lots of them in your house? because im trying to attract them for my pet praying mantises...

[molekylmartin]

Kelly,

Yes, you have to have them in your house, preferrably in your kitchen. But that's an easy thing to achieve. Just buy some bananas or sweet plums and forget them for a while. In a week or so, you will have a whole bunch of fruit flies. But for your praying mantises, I can´t recommend you to catch these creatures with the method above. I believe the detergent isn't very healty for your mantises. And don't they prefer living prey?

[xxLatinKillaxx]

those flies are dumb asses they don't stop and look their brethren dead already lol

[TheFlapper]

this vid doesnt explain anything to me, all i see is a glass with some sort of liquid anmd flies in it

what is the guy using to catch the flies?

[molekylmartin]

Obviously you haven't read the comments above ;) Have a look at them and you'll understand.

[skibobbyz]

wow gay

[Clevelandmarko]

Great instructional video. This may work for most people but many times, the flies are coming from sewer pipes cracked under the slab. Please watch my video on drain flies called SEWER DRAIN URINAL FLIES ATTACK AND INVADE MY HOME

[sonebone7]

what is drosophila? how do i make it?

[molekylmartin]

"Drosophila melanogaster" is the scientific name of the common fruit fly. It is one of the most studied animals in biology. Geneticists have studied them a lot since they have a very short reproduction time and are easily mutated.

[danspare]

I killed more than 30 of these black pests within 40 minutes. That's nearly as many, pro rata, as the LAPD during any given Sunday.

[phuturephunk]

technically they're brown-ish, not to interrupt your fabulously racist success testimony.

[danspare]

Technically, you're a dick.

[phuturephunk]

But I'm right though, don't lie.

:-*

[LarryStorey]

Now if we mention the word black we are racist?

[danspare]

I hate these black bastards. Gonna try this, hope it works well for me too!

[verocity]

Why dont these fucking researches make some genetically modified fucking fruit fly that will kill them off wholesale!

[loobsy1]

Thank you so much - this works! I turned to you tube in frustration as I was at the end of the tether of trying to squash the stupid tiny fruit flies that had taken over my kitchen. I tried a glass of white wine vingar+water+washing up liquid. I went out for 7 hours and returned to find the glass with 30 of the critters drowned in it! It works, even if you do need a little patience. Thanks :)

[truchoLoc0]

stupid dumb flies i should try that LOL

[srahrahh]

i love youtube... it has all the answers.

i'm gonna try this.

thanks :)

[molekylmartin]

Good luck! Most of the time it works very well, but sometimes it seems they don't take notice of the trap at all. Strange!

[drdouche1]

imma try this at home these guys got all over my empty beer bottles! i hope it works holla front.

real talk

[phimms]

How do you put in the detergant? With my one drop it sinks to the bottom. Do you have to mix it or something?

[molekylmartin]

Just mix a few drops with the water-vinegar mixture. Good luck.

[rofl082193]

my kitchens infested, i even got rid of the mothership (bag of decayed cranberries that smelled like vinegar) and they're still everywhere. theres even like 3 flyin around my head right now....guess ill try this

[vash513]

apple cider vinegar works best. they're also very attracted to red wine.

[molekylmartin]

Apple cider is the best, yes! Great that red vinegar also works. Right now I'm making a batch of cider vinegar in my kitchen in a clay pot. I have to cover it with a towel to prevent the Drosophilas from drowning there. They LOVE the smell from old apples!

[foto101]

Holy shis that is so awesome! I thought there was no other way besides manual removal (swat). Kick ass info!

[knowledgehustler]

I work in a juice bar and we have a huge problem that bug spray never seems to fix. I will be trying this method at work tomorrow.

[molekylmartin]

My experience is that the fruit flies don't like dark colours, so put the vinegar, water and detergent in a bright coloured glass or bowl. Best wishes/Martin

[molekylmartin]

Has the method worked out yet? I'm interested to hear about it./MArtin

[hueythebutt]

i don't get it, what keep them in the liquid....the detergent? it kills them?

[molekylmartin]

The detergent makes them drown, since the surface tension is reduced. /Martin

[AsharpG]

I'm gonna try this tonight. Am I suppossed to use dishwashing liquid detergent, or laundry detergent or does it make a difference?

[defenderofliberty]

I made a fruit fly trap less than 12 hours ago. I took a glass container, poured a little apple cider vinegar into the bottom, added less than a drop of detergent, put plastic wrap over the top with a rubber band to hold it in place, and poked a little hole in the middle. I've caught 40 fruit flies so far. It looks like there are only a couple left that haven't been caught.

[tomokh]

Thank you for this video! It's too late now that I've seen this. I killed more than 35 fruit flies these past few days with my hands, paper towels, a Time magazine, and anything else since they were flying around like snowflakes in my kitchen. A mistake to put a bowl of grapes in the dining room for a few days. -_- Now, I can use sushi vinegar next time. Mwahaha!

[phimms]

lol, my father left a bowl of grapes out just when we left for vacation. Two weeks later when we come back they are everywhere. I got rid of most of them. I hope this works because I am terrified of bugs.

Wait, my father just left the bowl of grapes outside. Oh my god, I am not touching that. The most hardest part is getting them out of the bathroom.

O_O

[semprelegato]

Thanks for the video. I tried this two minutes ago, and already there are two fruit flies dead in there! HAHA SUCKERS! thanks a lot!

[mikeladeroute1]

ty u rock my mom was loking every were and fond this ty

[Bubblegumslushie]

Reddyredd, Same with me. They are all over in my kitchen. I'm going to try this method. Other than this, i dont know any other ways to get em all out.

[reddyredd]

I looked up fruit flies here because I had quite the infestation. I cleaned up my kitchen and used fly spray. The only problem was since nothing was left in the kitchen they started exploring the rest of my place. Last night I had left an 'empty' open jar of salsa out and when I came home there were like 50 hanging around in it. I clasped the lid, and now I have a fruit fly farm. It's not airtight, so they'll just hang out there until the food is gone, I guess--might even have more kids!

[semprelegato]

Reddyredd, make sure you cover up food because they actually shoot their eggs in food!! Never eat food that's been infested with fruit flies. That's my advice!

[brembs]

Good job. There are a number of good ways to catch them. Apple cider works well, too. Anything that has a good fruit odor to it basically.

[molekylmartin]

I have tried apple cider as well. I brew my own cider from nonpasteurized freshly pressed apple juice, no yeast, no sugar. A bottle of cider left for a couple of days sometimes get a "mother of vinegar", i.e. newly produced cellulose from acetobacter. This strongly attracts the flies. This "mother of vinegar" is perfect for making your own vinegar. I have only tried this with my cider, and apple cider vinegar gets very tasty - although it isn't as sweet as the one you normally buy.

[christabone]

Haha, nice man.

Yeast with a little bit of water works very well too.

[molekylmartin]

Thanks a lot! Isn't it necessary to have a small amount of detergent with the yeast and water?