house flies or fungus gnats (which favor overwatered houseplants). For those bugs, see our guides on how to get rid of gnats and how to make a homemade fly trap. According to the pros at Orkin ...

Fruit flies are tiny quick-reproducing flies that sneak into your house through minuscule window ... them to enter but not to leave. Watch them get in one by one. Take a bottle of apple cider ...