Well, I’ve gotten gnats or fruit flies or whatever but put out a little dish of apple cider vinegar to do them in.

We do not have gnats, but we do get fruit flies in Los Angeles. We do not get fruit flies in Cathedral City/Palm Springs. Fruit flies do not like the desert.

I like cold bananas, but then I often put them in smoothies.

When I harvested a bunch of bananas from the tree in my back yard, I dehydrated the bananas, and this keeps the fruit flies at bay.

My DD did put out a cup with apple cider vinegar/dawn/water and the gnats/fruit flies did go in and get caught in it...

My thought was those little screen things you put over serving dishes for outdoors. I think the fruit will still attract gnats but at least they wouldn't get on the fruit. They seem to bother my DD more than me.

My grocery store has green plastic bags. i keep my bananas i those with the bag twisted around the stems. They seem to stay fresher longer without ripening too quickly in these bags. And no gnats.

We don't get fruit flies or gnats on our bananas as long as they aren't overripe. The rest of the fruit is stored in the fridge....apples, oranges, limes, lemons, strawberries, blueberries...

Having gnats is like having ants. They get in sometimes, somehow and when they do, you need to get rid of all of them or the cycle will continue. Figure out what path they followed.

Do you see gnats flying around outside your windows and do you have screened doors or windows open? That could be one source, go after them outside. If none are visible outside, look elsewhere. Hitching a ride on fruit you bought at the store can be another possibility, that happens.

We prefer most kinds of fruit at room temperature and most of it never goes into the fridge. We rarely get gnats. For fruit that has to be refrigerated, which for me includes little of it other than berries and melons AFTER being cut but not before, I'll sometimes prepare a serving and then let it sit out on the counter for a good while to warm before eating. The subtle flavors and sweetness of good fruit is more enjoyable to me when not so cold as to numb the taste buds.

We only get fruit flies when bananas get old. Aside from that, fruit should be eaten shortly after coming home, so as to avoid spoilage. If you get fruit flies a lot, you should consider changing the amount of fruit you buy.

I keep most fruits in the refigerator and pull out a day’s worth in the morning. Bananas are kept out , and a grapefruit is taken out at night so that it is ready for breakfast.

Summer means fresh produce on the cupboard and that means those tiny bugs. Fruit flies/gnats tomato/tomatoe. People with house plants often have them also. The cider vinegar thing works to a point but it is no miracle cure. Unfortunately other than putting everything in the 'fridge there is no way to eliminate them. It's interesting that I can have a fruit bowl with apples and oranges out all winter but BAM come summer they have to be in the 'fridge if I don't want flying bugs driving me nutty.

I get fruit flies when this happens:

I used to go to El Arroyo Restaurant in the late 1980s, but mostly I bought and cooked my own groceries. There was a small supermarket on 43rd Street a couple of blocks from my house on Duval Street, and I would buy vegetables there the day that I was going to cook them.

I like most of my fruit chilled. I cannot think of any fruit that I prefer to have room temperature, except for dates. I often make a fruit salad/cocktail and chill it.

We may get a stray fruit fly or 2, but it's really not a big problem. I do think they hitchhike in on some fruits - esp. when they come from my yard. I think what makes a big difference is that our back door in the kitchen opens onto a screened porch, not directly outside.

I feel like we get more tiny moths than anything else. Some are so small, I think they can get through a window screen.

If you have potted plants, they may be harboring fungus gnats.

If I am keeping some fruit on the counter, I put a tightly woven cloth (a large napkin, in my case) over the bowl, making sure that it is in good contact with the bowl edges. Seems to work, since if I don't, I will have fruit flies before long (I firmly believe that they loiter by the back door, along with house flies, just waiting for the door to open).

Those mesh picnic covers are a good idea; I see you can even get a set of mesh bowl + cover.

I often have wondered why a grocery store produce section does not have fruit flies on their fruit, yet when bring several peaches home they seem to magically appear.

One of our local grocery stores always seems to have them flying around, but in the pet food area rather than produce. The Starbucks kiosk had a problem with them in another store - they had to close it down for about a week to get rid of them.