A woman has revealed her simple trick which can help banish fruit flies from a home before they even get the chance to hatch.
The professional house cleaner, named Tonya Bee, shares tips and life hacks to her 5,000 TikTok followers, posting under the username @thatcleanbee.
In a recent clip, she explained that banana skins can sometimes be responsible for fruit fly infestations, so you should always wash them as soon as you get home.
She said: "One way to help with fruit flies in your home is by washing your bananas as soon as you get them home from the store".
She then 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."
Commenters were quick to praise the simple, easy and free hack under Tonya's TikTok video, which now has almost three million views.
"I just went online and researched this this fact is true and I agree with it," wrote one user, while another said: "You’ve just changed my life - I always get them right after bananas".
A third commented: "“Wash your fruit before you eat it”… But nobody ever told us about the bananas! Thank you very much."
However a fourth had their own fruit fly theory, joking: "I’m convinced fruit flies literally spawn from the edges of the universe into our kitchen via quantum tunnelling"
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