How To Make A Homemade Wine Fruit Fly Trap
For the last three years I have teamed up with my nephew to make homemade wine from grapes.
The grapes are fermented, pressed and transferred to demijohns with the extra going into gallon jugs.
All this process takes place at his house and then I bring my share home.
Now the purpose of sharing this information about where we made the wine is important because for the last couple of years after I brought the wine home there has been a large number of fruit flies in my house.
The fact that the whole process was not done at my home there shouldn't be any or just a few fruit flies flying about.
Fortunately this wine season the flies were not as bad as the last one.
However, in the previous year my wife and I would be having dinner with a glass of wine and when we went to have a sip there would be a fly or two floating in the wine and or flying around the glass trying to dive in.
These flies became very annoying.
How do I get rid of these little monsters was the question that kept running through my mind.
Then the idea came to me - make a homemade wine fruit fly trap.
I set up the trap and to my astonishment it worked fantastically.
Every day the number of flies floating in the wine increased.
As this was my first time doing this, I didn't know how long to leave the wine before replacing it with fresh wine.
To my surprise, after three or four days they had turned the wine into vinegar.
I had heard this was possible and was one of the big reasons to keep fermenting wine covered.
From that point on I would change the wine every two or three days.
By end of the first week the number of flies that were being caught in the trap was decreasing and within two weeks they were gone.
So this wine season just past I was all ready for these little pests.
To make a homemade wine fruit fly trap all you need is a short wide rimmed glass, plastic food wrap and of course homemade wine.
Pour wine into the glass to a level of a quarter inch and tightly cover with plastic food wrap.
Then puncture small holes (just big enough for the flies to enter inside the glass) in the plastic wrap in the center of the glass away from the rim of the glass.
The reason for keeping the holes away from the rim is once the fruit flies are inside the glass they will walk on the plastic wrap staying close to the rim and you certainly do not want to give them a chance to escape.
For free step by step instructions to learn how to make homemade wine from fresh juice or grapes please visit http://www.
greathomemadewine.
ca
The grapes are fermented, pressed and transferred to demijohns with the extra going into gallon jugs.
All this process takes place at his house and then I bring my share home.
Now the purpose of sharing this information about where we made the wine is important because for the last couple of years after I brought the wine home there has been a large number of fruit flies in my house.
The fact that the whole process was not done at my home there shouldn't be any or just a few fruit flies flying about.
Fortunately this wine season the flies were not as bad as the last one.
However, in the previous year my wife and I would be having dinner with a glass of wine and when we went to have a sip there would be a fly or two floating in the wine and or flying around the glass trying to dive in.
These flies became very annoying.
How do I get rid of these little monsters was the question that kept running through my mind.
Then the idea came to me - make a homemade wine fruit fly trap.
I set up the trap and to my astonishment it worked fantastically.
Every day the number of flies floating in the wine increased.
As this was my first time doing this, I didn't know how long to leave the wine before replacing it with fresh wine.
To my surprise, after three or four days they had turned the wine into vinegar.
I had heard this was possible and was one of the big reasons to keep fermenting wine covered.
From that point on I would change the wine every two or three days.
By end of the first week the number of flies that were being caught in the trap was decreasing and within two weeks they were gone.
So this wine season just past I was all ready for these little pests.
To make a homemade wine fruit fly trap all you need is a short wide rimmed glass, plastic food wrap and of course homemade wine.
Pour wine into the glass to a level of a quarter inch and tightly cover with plastic food wrap.
Then puncture small holes (just big enough for the flies to enter inside the glass) in the plastic wrap in the center of the glass away from the rim of the glass.
The reason for keeping the holes away from the rim is once the fruit flies are inside the glass they will walk on the plastic wrap staying close to the rim and you certainly do not want to give them a chance to escape.
For free step by step instructions to learn how to make homemade wine from fresh juice or grapes please visit http://www.
greathomemadewine.
ca
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