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We love cooking with bananas but buying bananas almost always means dealing with fruit flies since I like to let them get mostly black on the outside before I use them. But now that's ok because my boyfriend makes the best fruit fly traps! For us, our fruit flies are usually all in the trap within a day or two of setting out the trap.

You'll need:
- a plastic container you don't mind throwing out
- some plastic wrap (bigger than needed to just cover the opening)
- a rubber band
- a small piece of fruit (starting to rot is ideal but not necessary)

Bait the trap by putting the fruit in the bottom of the container. Now place the plastic wrap over the opening and then use the rubber band to keep it in place.

Now use your finger to gently poke the plastic wrap down so that it forms a V-shaped cone pointing down into the container. Poke a small hole in the center of that V that's just big enough to let a fruit fly through.

The flies smell the fruit and work to find a way to reach the food. But then when they go to fly out, they just head up. So most of them spend their time crawling around the rim of the plastic container. Then they're easy to squish. After a few days, we start wondering if maybe they're just breeding in the fruit and producing new fruit flies so then we'll throw out the trap.