Fruit flies are, to put it bluntly, very irritating - and once they're in your home, it can feel impossible to get rid of them. You'll open your food waste bin and they just seem to be there, you'll be minding your own business and some will just zoom past your head brazenly, making you wish that you could completely banish them from your home.
One cleaning guru has shared her perfect hack to banish the annoying lingering fruit flies from your home, however. Tonya Bee aka @thatcleanbee on TikTok has shared a reason why the fruit flies might be coming back, but there's an easy way to fix it.
The professional house cleaner shared that thanks to her hack, she hadn't had a fruit fly problem in years. She captioned her video: "Best fruit fly hack. Since I started doing this (years ago) I've maybe had one time where I had fruit flies."
She said that the best way to get rid of fruit flies is to wash bananas as soon as you get them home from the shop.
Tonya explained: "Fruit flies lay eggs on the bananas then you bring them into your house and they hatch and you have fruit flies.
"So make sure you wash them as soon as you get home."
The simple hack costs nothing, and it had a lot of people praising the cleaning guru in the comments, saying how much the information had helped them.
One wrote: "Thank you! It was driving me CRAZY how were they coming into our house? Our house is very clean. This blew my mind."
Another made a suggestion, commenting: "Also, pull your bananas apart so they aren't in a bunch anymore, then wash them. They like to lay the eggs up where the stems join!"
"You've just changed my life", another praised.
"You just answered the greatest mystery I had", someone else wrote.
"Omg I did not know this! So smart", one TikToker complimented.
Will you be trying this hack to banish fruit flies? Let us know in the comments.
