Eliminate pesky fruit flies!

2007 was a bad year for fruit flies. We had so many last July that I decided I wasn't going to just put up with it anymore. I got on the Internet and found a very useful site (http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef621.asp) that tells how to make the above fruit fly trap. Basically you take a glass jar, put cider vinegar in the bottom, and then put a paper funnel in the top. The vinegar attracts them, the paper keeps them from flying back out. A few will drown, but most of them you can release to the outdoors if you so desire. As the website notes, you must also remove all overripe and rotting fruits and vegetables (in our case, an old onion) from your kitchen or else they just come back.

Hope this helps someone else this summer!