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Here's a video about how to easily make your own fruit fly trap out of two soft drink bottles.
My father in-law showed me this method and it's what he used on his commercial citrus orchard in WA. Essentially, the trap is hung in a fruit tree or placed in a garden bed and contains a home-made bait (fruit) to attract the fly. A drop of fruit fly insecticide is also mixed with the bait to ensure the fly dies.
Commercial fruit fly attractants can also be used in this trap meaning only the refills are required to be purchased with the traps made cheaply at home out of recycled materials and this could save considerable costs for larger food gardens where many traps are required to control fruit fly in the area.
My father in-law showed me this method and it's what he used on his commercial citrus orchard in WA. Essentially, the trap is hung in a fruit tree or placed in a garden bed and contains a home-made bait (fruit) to attract the fly. A drop of fruit fly insecticide is also mixed with the bait to ensure the fly dies.
Commercial fruit fly attractants can also be used in this trap meaning only the refills are required to be purchased with the traps made cheaply at home out of recycled materials and this could save considerable costs for larger food gardens where many traps are required to control fruit fly in the area.
A commercial variety of fruit fly trap is being discussed over in this thread started by Stevo.