Take a quart or gallon sized zipper bag and put fruit peels, cores, scraps, etc in the bag. Keep the top of the bag open only about an inch or so. Let it sit overnight. In the morning, before turning on many lights and making a lot of noise, very quickly close the bag and trap the flies before they have a chance to escape. Toss the bag in the trash.
You can see from the picture above that this trap was very successful. I caught almost all of our fruit flies in one night!
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That's a good way of trapping them. I usually do the glass with vinegar, covered with plastic wrap, but it only gets some of them! Seems if they have the choice of fruit vs. vinegar, they definitely choose the fruit!
I do the cider vinegar thing too and it has worked well... We have fruit flies many times a year here too...
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