Getting rid of flies

soba

I've got a 'tennis bat' that electrocutes them! It's shaped like a tennis bat with a button on the side, when the button's pressed an electic current passes across the wires, when the fly is hit with the bat - well it's curtains for them! Must remember to keep it away from the kids though..........

Rachie_B

soba wrote:

I've got a 'tennis bat' that electrocutes them! It's shaped like a tennis bat with a button on the side, when the button's pressed an electic current passes across the wires, when the fly is hit with the bat - well it's curtains for them! Must remember to keep it away from the kids though..........

waaaaaaaaaaah :rotfl: :rotfl: sounds great

littlereddevil

frumpyknickers wrote:

Run around like an idiot with a rolled up newspaper / tea towel & try & squash the b*gge*s. This may not be the most effective / ethical way of getting rid but it is quite a good exercise routine. By the way should you be successful with a t towel remember to wash immediately, don't want any scarey accidents!

I had to laugh as this is exactly what my oh does! Everytime i open a window he goes mad as the house fills with flies.I now have a fly screen for the door so just leave that open and windows closed most of the time.

mandy_moo_1

Does anyone have any cheap ideas how to keep bluebottles and flies out of the house?!:mad:

I like to have my windows open when its warm ( as we all probably do) but i get sick of flies coming in then buzzing all over and getting on my nerves!

what do any of you do to keep the flippin' things out?

Pink.

Hi mandy_moo,

We have a recent thread on flies, so I've merged your thread with it as it makes it easier for other Old Style readers to find all the ideas together. As always, the posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to see them all.

Pink

filigree_2

I've got those sunflower stickies, they are made by Vapona and I got them from Boots for £2.49. I find them very effective, but they can only treat a small area so one in the kitchen doesn't deal with the flies in other rooms. Now I've got two more I'll use them in the living room and my bedroom which have the worst infestation.

I like the stickies because they are barely noticeable, and they don't stink - I don't like to use aerosols indoors. The downside is hoovering up the little corpses every day _pale_

I hate the things - I had the neighbours in for a house meeting last night and it was so embarrassing to have flies buzzing around. Funnily enough, they've all but disappeared today - perhaps the population peaks all at once and then the plague fades away? :think:

bargainbetty

My grandmother always used to keep a bunch of dried lavender in the living room and kitchen. She swore blind that it kept flies away, and I have to admit it seems to work. I get a fresh bunch every year from my mum's garden, and leave it to dry in a pot on the window sill.

Except on daddy-long-legs. Those pesky little critters get hoovered off the ceiling, as I have a phobia of flying things with long legs.

culpepper

My son hates the insects flying in his room but likes the window open to keep his computer cool so we made some netting screens for his windows.I bought self adhesive velcro strip and a charity shop net curtain and cut a rectangle then edged it with the velcro (with staples as the glued velcro is very hard to sew). I've seen something almost the same in the betterware catalogue and they do door screens too.
I hate fly paper,I cant bare to watch the flies struggling until they die.
Where I lived when I was young,we had a very dingy stair well to climb to reach the front door and the insects loved it. I used to be scared of them, especially as we had those light switches which you pressed and then they eased back out again to save electricity so you would press the switch and charge up a flight of stairs and press the next switch just as the first one went out. Over the years, I became immune and can now quite happily pick up spiders,crane-flies etc.

1sttimer_2

Now that the weather has become nice and warm, I am finding more flies around in my kitchen when cooking meals :mad: So how do you OS'ers deal with them?

Fly sprays are not to be used by food and although I've got a swatter (or two) I can't keep leaving the food to swat the flies (plus I'm not too good a shot) or should I ask someone to be on 'fly duty' LOL.

Gingham_Ribbon

You can strips of sticky paper that flies stick to I believe. Not had a fly problem myself so I've never tried it. (My cats eat any insects brave enough to come in. :eek: )