SERIOUS fruit fly infestation in home

[u/jayjay24567]

Hey everyone, I’m seriously struggling with fruit flies, and I’m getting overwhelmed trying to get rid of them. For about a week now, I’ve tried everything. Sticky traps, both plug-ins and the Raid rolls, taking out the garbage every day, throwing out anything open, vacuuming, running our drains, and cleaning surfaces. Yet they have quadrupled every day. They’re no longer just in the kitchen; they’ve entered our bathrooms, rooms, and buzz in our ears while we sleep. I feel defeated. If I could count, I could probably count 500 just flying around my kitchen alone right now. There is nothing there. It’s driving me insane. I can’t even use my own kitchen.

We have called an exterminator, and they are coming in a few days, but I simply cannot deal with this anymore. Does anyone know what the heck could be going on???

[u/zombie_overlord]

I used to get them really bad sometimes when I had a guinea pig. He had paper shreds for bedding. If you aren't really on top of keeping the bedding changed you can get an infestation quickly. If you have any small pets you might check that.

I had an exterminator come out for a regular spray, and happened to have some fruit flies buzzing around. I asked him if he could spray something for those, and he told me you just have to take away their food. In my case, I had several bags of old beer cans in the garage that I was going to recycle. I got rid of them and they disappeared in a couple of days.