Flies!!

MarilynMonroe_2

Hope you can sort your fly problem out OP. have you put up fly papers. My problem is little moths every year, just can't seem to get to the bottom of them.

ellay864

Update...a rather gruesome breakthrough this evening when I moved the kitchen bin and mat and there were loads of maggots!!! They hadn't been there before, god knows how there got to be so many so quickly. I know in the past the cat has brought mice into the kitchen but can't see any sign of one now so can only assume it was the bin? But it's not like we don't empty that, and we always use a bin bag. Anyway I have now got rid of several dozen wannabe flies in one go. I'm hoping these were the culprits, these were all in the kitchen at the back of the house while most of the flies have been at the window at the front but thats where the warmth and light is during the day so I hope they simply flew down there, and that there isn't another batch to be unearthed. Feel slightly better now but paranoid about any speck I see on the floor
Marilyn, we also get little moths but at least they provide some entertainment while my cat tries to catch them

MarilynMonroe_2

Sounds like you might have solved the problem then, fingers crossed. It doesnt take long at all for maggots to get going so it could have been somehting you binned or dropped down, maybe a bit of fruit even?.
My cats have become a bit lazy when it comes to the litle moths,I'm sure they think they are pets now or something so it's down to me and a babywipe and a quick squish I'm afraid, can never seem to get them all though.

Edwardia

Having lived in Canada, I bought a screen door for our back door so that we could keep door open for a cooling draught but not get flies. Worked a treat until the labrador learned how to open the screen door by leaning on it. I have found that daily poo patrols of the back garden keeps fly numbers down in the first place and I figured a way of stopping the dog opening the door too. We also have flexible plastic fly swatters bought from a hardware store.

We rented a house in the cottage and that always had flies as it was next to a cow field As it wasn't our house all we could do then was swat them but tried to avoid the magnolia emulsion !

blackgothic

I dont believe in fly sprays , i get rid of flies the old fashioned way by leaving the spiders webs up all over the place. Its green and renewable

[Deleted User]

They seem to be bluebottles

We had cluster flies and they give you a mighty shock when you open a window as they all fly out all of a sudden from where they have settled, around the frames. They are pretty dozy flies that look like bluebottles but they come off the fields when being ploughed. They spend part of their life cycle in earthworms and apparently pose no threat to health. They always home in on the same place so will re-appear year after year. Meths is supposed to be a remedy ie wiping around the frames will remove the pherome that attracts them. It took some paint off our windows so we didn`t use it. We did buy fly screens for the north facing windows, Canadian make actually. We had already had them fitted on the south side to keep the wasps and moths out

So far so good, no cluster flies at all

MarilynMonroe_2

I use window mesh from Lidls, they get it in now and then, worth buying if you see some.

Lavender hung in windows is also supposed to deter flying things from coming in. x