We have an infestation of fruit flies in/around our kitchen sink and kitchen window. They have also moved into our bathroom (we have never had fruit in there...).
It says online that fruit flies come from rotting fruit on the counter, wet sponges, and flowers. We had all of those at the same time a week ago, around when these flies "moved in". We had strawberry tops in the garbage disposal that may not have gotten chopped up all the way, yes my sponge gets wet sometimes, and I had a vase of lilies (my fav flower) by the sink!
I have tried it all over the past week... cups of vinegar and wine with hole-poked saran wrap on the cups, glasses of white wine, bowls of soapy water, etc. I have seriously become like a jungle woman, where I see a fruit fly and I can catch it in my fist!
I'm really a clean person! Since our new roommates have arrived, I have bleached everything in my kitchen, including my garbage disposal. The average life span of a fruit fly is ten days, but these things are multiplying like crazy! I will go to bed having smashed all of them, and then when I wake up there are 10+ more fruit flies in the sink.
We went to the management of our apartment, but they just sent up this foreign man who didn't know English, and we killed the flies together with fly swatters for 45 minutes and bonded over non-verbal violence.
... Any advice? :(
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