Getting rid of flies

honeythewitch

Fruball wrote: »

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/quick-and-easy-to-make-highly-effective-fly-trap/

Simple. First you need to source some poo _pale_ Then just cut the top off a 2l coke bottle (or similar) and remove the cap. Place some crap in the bottom of the bottle _pale_ Invert the top piece into the bottom and seal them together with any sticky tape.

Place outside where your fly problem is and bingo! You have hundreds of flies caught and they can't find their way out! I have even caught 4 wasps along with the flies!!!

You can hang it in a tree but I just left it on the grass.

Showed my friend today and she was gobsmacked how many flies were in there! More than the one in the picture in the link.

(I have made these with old chicken, half a sardine and other baits but poo is their favourite and caught at least 10 times more flies than the fish)

Thank you, Fruball. I shall be making a selection of them.

-taff

If there's a peristent one in your house and you can't catch it, I recommend hoovering them up, especially those annoying ones that fly round the light fittings.
Get the wand out and wave it around, and all the flies will be in the hoover.

kboss2010

Thanks for all the tips! I spent half an hour last night chasing a noisy fly around my bedroom armed with a can of hairspray! I thought it might stick its wings together or poison it but no such luck. I ended up catching it on the desk and spraying it with furniture polish until it croaked. Not recommended, I could barely breath afterwards and had to open a window to sleep.

lostinrates

luvchocolate wrote: »

you can get a hand held one looks like a tennis racket runs on batteries to zap them.....not tried it myself but customers tell they are are good our are £3.99 but possible cheaper ones to be found.
also I have the door curtains like strings which keeps them out.

These work great on slower moving insects, mosquitos and small moths etc, less so on flies. My husband is a huge fan of them.:o.

cornishchick

I read something once.on those annoying face book pages , that I have been meaning to try .
a clear zip lock bag filled up with a couple of copper coins and water, hung near windows, seating areas etc , appently the refraction on the coins in the water confuses them and they "fly" away some where else.
Worth a try..

gemstars81_2

I had some small flies that would have probably have grown up to be fruit flies. The only thing that worked was spraying them with my kitchen side cleaner and once they got wet they either fell out of the air or had to land. Then I crushed them muhuhuha.

The things which didn't work were boiling malt vinegar, hoovering them up, making a fly trap with apple cider vinegar and shoo-ing them out with the mop worked once but then not again.

OBIWAN

We used a sawn-off shotgun, but it made a terrible mess of the walls and ceiling...

Laurensalive

I would try these. Vapona window sticker , pack of 8. I purchased mine from Robert Dyas. I get the odd issue with black flies, small ones in the warmer months. The only issue is the flies do not stick to the window stickers, they drop down on the sill dead. So out with the anti bac to clear the flies up.

Tepe

I have tiny little flies in my kitchen - They seem to gather around the patio doors - I can't work out what they are or where they are coming from!!

Can someone please help me??

filigree wrote: »

Help, my house is revolting

For the last couple of days we have been infested with flies. They are the ordinary black houseflies, not bluebottles or midges. They mostly hang round the kitchen and living room, possibly because those rooms are the warmest/sunniest.

I can't tell you how disgusting this is. They gather on every flat surface, all the shelves in the kitchen, the bookshelves and pictures in here, just about everywhere. Not surprisingly the lampshades are a popular spot. If you pick up a book or the biscuit tin a fly buzzes around. They are very slow and dopey, thankfully Mr Filigree has managed to splat lots of them but I can't splat fast enough and I miss them. We even have to shoo them away when we're eating :mad:

I've got Raid spray but it says not to use it on any surfaces - but that's where the damn flies are! I try flapping at them to get them airborne so I can squirt them but they're so lazy they won't fly far. I got a Vapona "flower" that sticks to the kitchen window, that seems to be working but slowly - it only kills flies that land on it. I'm unhappy about spraying Raid all over the kitchen, it's a very small room and of course EVERYTHING in the kitchen is food related and you don't want poisonous insecticide sloshing around your cooking equipment!

I have got a basil plant, that's supposed to deter flies but they seem to like sitting on it. I've tried burning joss sticks, the flies avoided the smoke but it didn't drive them out of the house. I have emptied all the bins and washed them out, also the outside bins were collected yesterday so that's not the problem. All food is sealed in containers, inside cupboards or the fridge. I'm positive we don't have any forgotten dirty dishes growing mould anywhere.

Please, can anyone suggest something I can do to get rid of the infestation?

melanzana

I would love to know what purpose these little flying midgets have for anyone?

But I'm sure there is a species a little bigger that eats them for breakfast occasionally.

AFTER they invade our abodes.

I have a can of death juice for them and the wasps. I must have a killer instinct.

That spray can works every time. Sorry I am a murderer.