Getting rid of flies

thriftlady_2

No, but I'd love to know as I'm having the same problem. I've got a compost bin at the end of our not-very-long garden and that is full of flies. I am sure they are the same kind that I'm finding in the house. I wish it would get really cold and kill the b*****s off.

jodie

I heard that spiders kill them off and I did hoover up all the spider webs in my house last week, i bet that done it

thriftlady_2

I've got loads of spiders so I'm not sure about that :rotfl: I don't mind spiders at all, but flies get right on my nerves, buzzing roud food and throwing themselves at windows :rolleyes:

jodie

yeah they keep attacking me, lol, they throw themselves at me, if only they were George Clooney eh

kev1n3

jodie wrote:

I have been invaded with flies and i have no idea why, they are really bugging me, they are worse then the crane flies we had a few weeks ago.

Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

you havent had a new patio or your floorboards replaced recently have u while away on holliday?

dannahaz

Citronella oil? Some shops sell blocks of citronella.

I also have a window thing that looks like a sunflower stained glass. It's supposed to attracty the flies, they get poisoned and then die on my windowsill. I know it works because of the number of fly corpses on the windowsill, but I still had lots of flies buzzing around.

In the end I'm afraid I kept a can of fly spray in the living room and just grabbed it and squirted every time I heard a fly.

glendam

i am having trouble too but they are tiy little black flies dont know if thats what you mean.
Any ideas anyone
TIA
Glenda

thriftlady_2

They sound like the ones I've got. They're not big buzzing ones, they drift about in a very stupid fashion.

Strepsy

I'd be worried that there's a source inside the home. Do you have pet bowls near a cupboard or somewhere where food could have gone and then flies laid eggs on it? It might be worth checking behind cupboards and things if you do have pets.

Addiscomber

Are they tiny? They sound like fruit flies. If so the chances are that they came in egg form on some fruit that you bought. Where do you keep peelings and so on before you take them to the compost heap? They could be breeding there, especially if you don't keep it covered. My advice would be to wash all fruit brought into the house, and keep anything destined for the compost bin covered up whilst it is still in the house. Since i started doing this we have had only the odd tiny fly, but boy are they hard to swat :mad:

The other possibility is fungus flies that live in soil-less potting compost, if you have any pot plants in the house. I cannot remember the name, but there is a product that can be watered onto the compost that kills them. I don't think it can be used on edible plants, but this is the wrong time of year for most of those anyway.