Homemade fruit fly trap

The past few months we’ve had a serious fruit fly problem, and Hildes love for fruit is not helping the issue. While I was reading Lifehacker a few weeks ago, I came by this, a DIY (do it yourself) fruit fly trap, and it looked very easy to make! So I tried it out

Unfortunately we did not have apple vinegar or a rotten banana, but the fruit flies seemed to enjoy the pineapple leftovers, so I stuffed a small piece of it in the bottom, taped up some paper and waited a few days. This is the result:

It works! What an ingenious invention!

After taking this picture I noticed 4 flies on the outside of the paper…I began to worry; Was the fly trap working as advertised, or did I just create a breedingplace for them? I immediately sprayed some cleaning liquids in the glass and filled it with water. I ran away before the flies started screaming and locked myself in my room.

It seems to work though, yay! I think I’ll have to try it again and leave it until I see some dead flies in there.