HELP! MY ROOM IS INFESTED WITH FRUIT FLYS!

They will go away eventually. Cover your trash and don't leave any fruit or salad type stuff out. That's what they go after. The should disapear shortly. They really are a nuisance but will disapear or fly over to the next buffet : )

Here is what I have found to work.

Start with a bottle, glass or plastic it doesnt matter
Fill about an inch of the bottle with red wine
Cover the bottle top with plastic wrap
Poke a few small holes, big enough for the flies to get through but not too big, in the center of the plastic wrap
Wait

The flies will be able to enter the bottle but wont beable to get out for they will walk around the lip of the bottle and  not be able to find the hole to get out.

 We are having the same problem in our apartment. We put out a glass with vinegar and laundry detergent, which they seemed to like and a lot of them died. However, we still have some flying around.

Its as simple as keeping your place moderately clean. Make sure u take out the trash every few days, dont leave fruit sitting out, especially bananas in my experience. Even fresh fruit try to keep in the refrigerator. Also dont leave your sink full of old dishes etc. Just try to clean up after yourself a little better and they will die off after a week or so. I think their actual life span is not more then a few days. Though if you continue to leave stuff sitting out for them to eat and lay eggs on/in they will continue to be around.

Also leaving empty beer cans around and such will attract them.  Really just pick up after yourself.

I just had a bad fruit fly problem at my apt and my friend gave me some advice that got rid of them in about 2 days.

It couldn't be easier.

1) Just put out a small bowl, cup or saucer and fill it with a small amount of wine, or other alcohol aroun 12-30%, to about a 1/2 inch high.

2) drip a drop of soap onto your finger ind then dip your finger for a few seconds into the wine. this breaks the surface tension so the flys that are attracted to the wine fall straight in and and can't get out.

3) leave out overnight at a location with high fly traffic and check how well it worked in the morning.

Gorgatron's got it.  They do drown in the wine or vinegar bowls but this technique will only attract more of them.  Clean up and they'll be gone by the next day. 

Throw out some of the potential rotting fruit/produce that you don't want to waste but probably won't eat in time. When you buy new fruit to set out, keep it tied off/sealed in the plastic, or whatever (I don't know if people like to do this, but I eat my fruit fairly quickly and it's worked for me). Don't buy more fruit than you can eat. This is how my house used to get infested. A big ass pile of fruit and only three people to eat it. Within a few days, dozens of fruit flies appear. If you let your trash overflow before you take it out, you'll attract lots of fruit flies. Same if you let the dishes pile up in the sink, they love that stuff. Check everywhere for a piece of produce that might have fallen underneath somewhere. They might all just be living off of one thing! A few years ago there was this banana peel at the bottom of my trash, and I hadn't taken out that trash for over a month because I usually just use the kitchen trash can. I pick it up to take it out and hundreds of flies shot out. When I sealed it tight, you could see all of them crawling up and down the sides of the bag.

 potted plants can also be a source of them.

last year i had a small flower pot and i accidentally bumped it and a CLOUD of fruit flies flew out! it was disgusting.

p.s. if you own a fish, they greatly appreciate any recently-swatted flies.

Sure fire way. We were ambushed by thousands of fruit flies a few weeks ago.  Theres a brand of fly paper called fly catcher at home depot.  It pulls out of a tube.  We hung it above a glass of vinegar in an open beer pong cup.  Within 6 hours, with us scaring them off the cup, they all landed on the strip.  It won't get them by itself, but when you scare them off, they tend to land nearby and hanging objects draw their attention.  total cost : $1.70.  Being rid of fruit flies: priceless

So, besides all the aformentioned advice, just some info: fruit flies need water and sugar to survive, and they also really like class because they think they're mating. So, lysol or windex the hell out of your mirrors and windows to make them inhospitable, ad remove any standing water (drinks, cups, whatever) and food items from your room. They'll die in a day or two.

When you fill the bowl with balsamic/wine/fruit juice and soap, also cover it with cling film and poke small holes in the film.  This attracts them and makes it more difficult for them to get out.

Hey guys. I have a unique idea that hasn't been mentioned before ever in this thread

Take red wine or vinegar and/or laundry detergent and/or other alcohol and plastic wrap.

This will kill them DED. I mean, totally destroy their lives.

How much of the same information needs to be repeated, let alone from a mod?

definitely make sure food is put away.  Fly strips work great but are NaSTYY!!  :)  Worthwhile because they work.  Also you can by this stuff that is fairly organic, it is in a yellow can and is a neurotoxin to flies.  Smells minty.  Good luck!

Take a large deuce in the middle of your kitchen floor.  Recruit your roommates as well, because their additions will come in handy. 

Within a few hours, the stench will attract a surplus of the massive, extremely territorial flies, which will in turn eat the miniscule fruit ones.

tried it...works like a CHARM.

Pics or it didn't happen.

You just want to ban some one for posting offensive pics... :)

Step One: Clean up.  Any food-type things that are exposed to the air need to go in the fridge or in the garbage, or into a plastic bag.  Even empty food containers should be rinsed and tossed (beer cans, yogurt cups, etc).  Be particularly careful about Halloween candy--fruit flies like ALL sugar, not just the sugar from fruit.

Step Two: Red wine/gin/saran wrap/yada yada.  Grape juice spiked with RAID works too.  Just don't drink it.  The organic minty neurotoxin is an alternative for those who don't like RAID.

Step Three: Yeah, fly traps.  They're gross, but they work.  If you don't like the fly paper thing and have a little money to spend on a plant that will die once your fruit fly problem is over, a Venus Fly Trap or Pitcher Plant is really cool.  Not sure where to buy one around here, but a plant nursery should have them.

Step Three Point Five: If you're vindicative and have time to spend, grab a vacuum with a tube and go to town.  You'll feel like an evil genius and the heat usually kills the bastards.

Step Four: During the autumn harvest months, keep food covered/fridged and take out garbage once a day.  Once the first frost has settled in, the little bastards seem to die out.

Step Five: Get used to it.  I never had fruit fly problems until I moved up to Bellingham, and now I dread fruit fly season (even though I keep my apartment clean).  They just seem to really like it up here (probably because of all our fresh fruit and organic grocery stores; a fair tradeoff).  You should have seen the mall last year, the candy shops nearly had to close and the food court was in a perpetual nightmare because one of the big trash cans hadn't been emptied for a week and then they all moved to the potted plants.

awesome thanks guys!

haha I just slap them... really lol.
At home, we have a electric-tennis-looking rack. haha

BUT, don't leave trash basket near the window. It draws them.