Although these flies are attracted to ripened or fermenting fruits and vegetables, fruit flies can breed in drains and wherever moist organic matter gathers. This makes fruit flies a year-round nuisance.
Your Adam’s pest management professional will use a combination of proven techniques to exterminate even the toughest fruit fly infestation. Adam’s will apply a proven, EPA-approved residual insecticide to cracks, and crevices and spot treat under appliances and floor mats, around plants, dumpsters, ceramic tile and grout joints, and doors and windows. The application may need to be repeated at 2 to 4 week intervals, depending upon the severity of the fruit fly infestation.
To stop the fruit fly breeding cycle and to reduce odors, Adam’s recommends using a proven bio-cleaning product to clean all possible fruit fly breeding sources, including drains, under appliances, under floor mats, around plants, dumpsters, and in cracks, and crevices. Foaming bio-cleaning products are preferred because they can reach and stick to hard-to-clean surfaces where fruit fly larvae could be easily missed using other cleaning products. In some situations, Adam’s will apply insect growth regulators (IGR) which have been approved and labeled for drain treatments into and around drains, downspouts, and catch basins. Repeating bio-cleaning at 2 to 4 week intervals may be necessary, depending upon the severity of the fruit fly infestation.
To manage significant infestations, Adam’s may install Insect Light Traps (ILTs) or use fruit fly traps that use vinegar or other fermenting matter to lure and capture adult fruit flies. ILTs and food attractant traps are often used to monitor fruit fly infestations and to determine potential breeding grounds.
Adam’s Pest Control has a dedicated team of representatives who are driven to protect your home or business and can answer any questions that you may have.
Fruit flies get their name because they are often found feeding on ripening or decaying fruits and vegetables. However, they also are often found in garbage cans and other unsanitary locations.
Fruit flies are tiny flies that are often seen in the kitchen near bowls of fruit or vegetables, glasses of wine, dirty mops or brooms, and garbage cans.
Adult fruit flies sit on walls and around window and door sills as well as near their breeding sources.
Outdoors, fruit flies congregate nearby dumpsters, garbage cans or in damp compost piles where fruits and vegetables are discarded.
Fruit flies can be a problem year round, but are especially common during late summer and fall because they are attracted to ripened or fermenting fruits and vegetables.
Adult red-eyed fruit flies are small flies about 1/8” in length with large, red eyes.
Adult dark-eyed fruit flies are a little larger than red-eyed fruit flies and have dark eyes.
Fruit flies have beige bodies with transverse black rings across their abdomen.
Fruit fly larvae are yellowish white, small, legless and pointed at the head end with inconspicuous head.
Unrefrigerated fruits and vegetables in a bowl on your kitchen counter, in the display case at your favorite grocery store, or even still on the vine in your garden, will attract fruit flies.
Fruit flies can smell ripe and fermenting fruits and vegetables from as far as 3/4 of a mile away.
Fruit flies can get inside your house through window screens or crack and crevices around windows and doors.
Sometimes, fruit flies -- or their eggs – can get into your home on fresh fruits or vegetables you brought home from the grocery store.
Harvesting vine ripe tomatoes and other vegetables from your garden may also be how fruit fly eggs are getting inside your home.
Although fruit flies are attracted to ripened or fermenting fruits and vegetables, they will breed in drains and wherever there is moist organic matter.
Adult fruit fly adults can easily follow air currents, so there could be several breeding places inside your home.
Fruit flies are a nuisance year round, especially where sanitation is an issue.
Adult fruit flies prefer to eat overripe, fermenting fruits and vegetables, plant secretions and honeydew produced by aphids.
Fruit flies also feed on the skins and stems of fruit, fungi, and the sludge left in drain pipes.
Fruit fly larvae also feed on fermenting and decaying fruit and vegetable matter dripped under your refrigerator or caught in a sponge.