How To: Build a Fruit Fly Trap

Supplies

Using knife cut top off bottle. Do not discard.

Using knife or drill make a 1/8 inch hole at the bottom of the bottle.

Cut a 18-24 inch length of the wire.

At one end of the wire make a J hook.

Above the J hook make a loop.

Insert the straight end of the wire through the cut end of the bottle and out the hole made at the bottom.

Using gloves attach the methyl eugenol bait to the J hook.

Attached bait.

Invert the top of bottle cut in step 2 and place it in the upside down bottle. Tape or staples can be used to secure the two pieces of the bottle. Using the wire suspend the trap near field.