Fruit flies in my green house! HELP

As a fruit loving person who always has fruit bowls overflowing, I am extremely familiar with fruit flies. I used to freak out about them a few years ago because where I grew up they did not exist. Now that I am in a sub-tropical area, they are always in our house during the warmer months. What I do to keep their numbers down is put some fruit (usually a piece of banana in the bottom of a glass bottle and then place a small plastic funnel on the top of the bottle. They can fly in there to get to the fruit, but they cannot get out. This never eradicates them completely, but I can put up with a few, just not swarms of them. They are not bad bacteria spreading like ordinary flies so I do not let them stress me. As my wife said, "at least they are not outside landing in dog poo before flying in here and landing on the food!"

dloveli I just used our mylot search thingy, there is a site called how to reduce fruit flies and fungus, and they tell of a cheap way to get rid of them using a banana as that attracts them, I do not remember the exact name of the site but I am pretty close, and if you go there and type in fruit flies in green house help you will see the site I am talking about and it gives clear instructions too. hope you spot this and it helps.hugs from hatley.

They multiply in the damp soil around plants, so don't water them any more than you have to. There's a simple trap that will help get rid of them. You take a plastic bottle (water or soda bottle), cut it in two and put the top inside the bottom, inverted so that it forms a sort of funnel. Put some sweet fruit in the bottom half and leave it. The gnats or fruit flies will smell the fruit and go in but usually can't find their way back out.

I am beginning to think this is the year for fruit flies! I have them too and no green house. I thought they came with ripe fruit but I don't have any and the other day they were in love with my computer and I don't even eat in front of it and it has its own room!! So I hope you find an answer then let me know. I am really tired of them.

We had a lot of trouble with fruit flies buzzing around our kitchen plants. But I stopped throwing spiders out and they feasted on them. However, my wife doesn't like spiders so I would have through out the big ones! _Derek

I would probably invest in a bug zapper. The fruit flies go towards the light and well they get zapped. I found a link that talks about other methods. http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/odor-removal/how-to-get-rid-of-fruit-flies/

Hi dloveli I do not have a green thumb so I am afraid I can not be of any help to you..I love plants and flowers but I seem to kill them if I mess with them too much..If they don't need too much care then they will live for a while for me.. Good luck with your garden..

Well, it could be that the eggs for the fruit flies were in the soil that your plants are in. This would be my first guess. As far as how to get rid of them, I would check online and see if there are any organic pestisides that you might be able to use that will help you to get rid of them. I've never been one with a green thumb, but I know that the eggs had to have been there and they were given some kind of a reason to hatch. Hope you are able to get rid of them, and please send some tomatos to me when they are ready.