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Here’s a tip: When buying a ripe pineapple … USE IT immediately! Last nights experience has ingrained that info into my very soul! Lol!
After 3 days of having two pineapples sitting on the kitchen counter, I thought it would be best to place them in the refrigerator before I went to bed. Well … as soon as I touched one of them a mass of fruit flies began flying all around my kitchen! Crap!!! And so … Needless to say, I immediately bagged both pineapples (tightly) and placed them outside. Then I spent approximately 4 hours hunting down all those teensy little flies. Exhausting!
There are ways to kill these pests, here are a few tips from Good Housekeeping:
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/tips/a25042/how-to-kill-fruit-flies/

But: These pesky pests breed and breed and breed … everywhere. One could end up with an infestation of thousands of fruit flies!!! YUCK!

Although the Good Housekeeping methods work to trap the flies, it doesn’t necessarily eliminate them all immediately – it takes a few days, sometimes longer.

Here is my method:
Step 1: Remove any fruit/vegetables on the counter examine for “spots” and then place in the refrigerator or outdoor trash.
Step 2: Become the fearless, fruit fly hunter, killing as many as you can see – immediately! Exhausting but effective. Killing them as soon as you spot them will, hopefully, prevent the flies from laying their eggs, hence circumventing a mass infestation! BTW, I use a dish towel which has been rinsed with soapy water and wrung out. Yep. I was swinging a wet dish towel around the kitchen, swatting at counters, walls, cabinets, stove top … etc., until the wee hours of the morning. I believe I have eliminated all of them. 🙂
Step 3: Wipe down all surfaces, including kitchen cabinets using dish soap (they can’t stand the smell of it!). Wipe down again. And again. Each time rinsing the cloth in the sink – takes care of any in the drain.

Ideally, don’t keep any fruit in the fruit bowl longer than one day!

Lesson relearned. 🙂

Good Luck! Hope you never have this problem!