How to quickly get rid of small flies in the kitchen?

Responsible housewives always strive to ensure that their kitchen reigned perfect cleanliness, and they do it. But sometimes it’s not clear where small flies may appear that instantly spoil the perfect picture, and how to get rid of them is not always clear. In order to understand what to do, you should first figure out where these same midges come from.

Causes of midges and consequences

Drosophila (and this is precisely what they are) appear when your apartment has suitable conditions for their living and reproduction. It is food and warm. If you have spoiled fruits or vegetables in free access, there is open jam or honey on the table, a bin or bin has not been taken out or sewage has not been repaired for a long time, then with a high probability you expect flies to settle. If we add to this the air temperature above +16 and humidity, then evil in the form of small insects becomes inevitable.

Sometimes it seems that midges come from nowhere, on their own. In fact, this is not so. You could bring the eggs of the flies from the fruit and vegetable store without even knowing it. They could fly from the neighbors, attracted by the smell of food. By themselves, these flies do not harm people in any way: they are not poisonous, do not bite and do not tolerate illness. But the fact that they started up with you suggests that the kitchen or bathroom is not perfect clean. And the flickering of these insects, which can fall into tea or get into food, is not a pleasant situation. Despite the fact that the flies live only a few days, they are able to lay hundreds, or even thousands of eggs during this period. From them new hordes of insects hatch that can ruin the life of everyone. So if you started to notice the presence of small flies, you should immediately take all possible actions to get rid of them.

How to fight?

There are a lot of methods to combat midges in the kitchen - from folk to chemicals. But before getting rid of these annoying insects, it’s worth putting in order. With this simple action, you will deprive small flies of an ideal habitat. Otherwise, you can endlessly apply a variety of fighting methods, but midges will appear in even greater numbers.

1. Eliminate all fruits and vegetables that have already become too soft or even started to deteriorate. And wash the rest with warm water and soap, dry and store in a cool place.
2. Take out all the trash. Especially if you have completed the previous paragraph. And try to throw out the remnants of food daily, so as not to provoke the reproduction of flies.
3. Check all drains in the bathroom and in the kitchen. Pour in cleaning products. If it does not help, you have to disassemble everything and clean it well.
4. Be sure to look for leaks. Small flies are very fond of humidity, and even a tiny patch of water can become their refuge. Therefore, inspect all pipes, the space under the bathtub and under the sinks. It is worth checking even the furniture, since moisture can also accumulate there.
5. Flies are also very fond of heat. Therefore, open the windows and begin to well ventilate all the rooms. Just do not overdo it, especially if there is severe frost on the street. Otherwise, you can destroy the plants and ruin the heating system.

Now that you have deprived the flies of an ideal habitat, you can get rid of flying individuals.

1. The simplest thing is to use a vacuum cleaner. Just turn on the unit and start the hunt for pests. Fast, efficient, albeit somewhat tiring and noisy.
2. Another easy way to get rid of small flies is with sticky tapes. Just hang them in places where insects gather and wait until they all stick to the trap. Then it remains only to remove the tape and throw it away. You can additionally hang next to the traps a piece of spoiled fruit to attract flies. And walk around the apartment carefully so that you don’t stick your hair to these ribbons.
3. Fumigators against flies also help. It is enough to put the plate, plug the device into a power outlet and wait until there is no trace of flies.
4. You can also resort to the sprays that we have been using for decades. They help get rid of insects instantly, but the smell leaves much to be desired. In addition, such funds are unsafe for people and animals. Therefore, first take everyone out of the room, remove the food, put on a protective mask - and only then start spraying the product. After treatment, be sure to wash your hands and wash, and after the appropriate time (it is indicated on the bottle), ventilate the rooms well.
5. There is a less harmful way to get rid of small insects - a trap from a can. To make it, you will need an ordinary glass jar, a funnel of paper sheet and a bait. As bait, you can use rotted fruit or sour juice. Put the bait in a container, insert a paper funnel there with a narrow neck down and seal the joints with tape. During the night, a huge number of insects will fall into this trap, from where they will not be able to get out, and it remains only to eliminate them.
6. Another similar interesting way to get rid of flies is a plastic cup with a bait. As in the first case, put fruit in a container or pour juice, cover it with cling film on top, in which you make several holes with a thick needle.
   

   Tip

   Try replacing the tape with adhesive tape. So then you don’t have to puzzle over what to do with midges that are inside the tank. They all stick to the tape, and all that remains is to throw out the glass along with the flies that have stuck.

7. You can try using essential oils. Just light an aroma lamp overnight with clove oil, ylang-ylang, fir or any other with a strong odor.
8. Try natural vanilla, which flies dislike. Boil some spices and sprinkle on the furniture surface with this water.
9. You can still warm camphor pieces in a pan. As soon as smoke begins to appear, walk around the apartment with this tank. Camphor is completely harmless to humans, but flies really do not like it.

Now you just have to choose a method to your liking - and you can begin to get rid of annoying flies.

Preventative measures

It’s good if you managed to get the little flies out of the apartment quickly. But it’s better not to allow them to appear again, then you don’t have to think about how to get rid of them. Since you already know what flies like and where they come from, taking precautionary measures is not difficult.

• Take out the trash daily.
• Get rid of spoiled foods right away.
• Do not leave jam or honey on the table.
• Having brought home fruits and vegetables, immediately rinse them and dry them well.
• Make sure that the kitchen and bathroom do not have excessive moisture.
• Try to ventilate the rooms more often.
• As an addition, you can put geranium on the windowsills, which insects do not like in autumn, or periodically light an aroma lamp.

A little care, a love of cleanliness and a desire to prevent the appearance of midges - and you can easily create an unbearable atmosphere in your apartment. Even if it happens that you bring these creatures home with fruit, they are unlikely to want to stay in your kitchen. They would rather move to the neighbors. But this will not be your headache.