Stop Fruit Flies decimating your garden produce!

Fruit Fly Trap

Fruit flies have spoiled the fruits of the hard work in our garden over past years. Large Tomatoes, Capsicums, Pepinos, Nectarines and Peaches were stung by this insect when young and when ripe, the fruit and vegies were full of grubs and needed to be thrown away. Since we introduced our home made fruit fly traps with a home made liquid solution, we have fruit flies under control and no more garden produce goes to waste. How do we make the trap and what goes into it?
Milk bottles painted yellow with two opposite "entrance", finger size holes in the upper part, filled with a special liquid (5 cups of sugar,200 ml cloudy ammonia, 20ml vanilla essence and 10 litres of water) appears to do the job. The yellow colour attracts fruit flies, they enter through the holes attracted to the sweet smell of the liquid inside and get drowned. The sweet liquid will last for a few months, then you can empty the bottles with drowned fruit flies and refill with fresh liquid. Easy as that. We strategically hang traps in trees and on the fence about 6m  apart along the perimeter of our garden  so any visiting fruit fly will encounter its final destiny before it gets into our garden.