Fruit Fly Trap

Don't you love things that are simple and effective? Lately my kitchen has been invaded by fruit flies. I can't figure out if it's the bananas, tomatoes, avocados, or bags of potatoes. I'm guessing the potatoes -- I look at everything else in the store pretty closely. Or maybe it's something as gross as eggs hatching. I'm not going to think about it. All that matters is that I have the little buggers and they're pretty pesky. So I read about this little trap. You curl a piece of paper into a cone (in my case it was a large postcard advertisement from the mail stack, and I later noticed that it was addressed to my neighbor -- whoops. Thanks Mrs. K.), stick the small end into a jar with a piece of ripe fruit or something else sweet (like a teaspoon of jam). Make sure the paper is pushed in so there is no gap around the top of the jar. Pretty soon you'll have fruit flies -- and they're too stupid to get back out! I have already trapped many more than I knew I had.