Small Flies at Home

Cotta

Hi All,

Does anyone else have the issue of small flies in the home and if so are there any solutions?

Thanks in advance

Niv

Possibly fruit flies? Make sure any food waste is covered / removed as soon as practicable.

Gloomendoom

We had a similar problem a few years ago. The whole village was affected.

The cause was a load of rotting potatoes dumped by a local farmer.

shaun_from_Africa

Have you recently added any new potted plants to your home?

I bought a plant a couple of months ago and because the compost it was in was vey dry, I gave it a good watering and within a couple of hours, my living room was covered in tiny flies. I can only guess that they were lying dormant in the compost and the water revived them.

Cotta

I've moved a potted plant outside, there maybe an issue with rubbish in a neighbour's backyard but I'm not sure if I can do much about that.

dunroving

If it's fruit flies:

Get a load of jam jars (or glasses).

Put vinegar (the fruity kind) into the bottom of the jars/glasses.

Put cling film over the top of the jars/glasses

Put tiny pin holes in the cling film

Spread the jars/glasses around the house.

The flies will be attracted by the vinegar, force their way into the jars/glasses, and won't be able to get out.

Think when I did this last it took just a few days until all the flies had drownded.

that

sure it is not a brown beetle - the biscuit beetle? We had them at work?

Fly paper would be my choice the yellow sticky stuff. it removed my moths.

Tigsteroonie

dunroving wrote: »

Put vinegar (the fruity kind) into the bottom of the jars/glasses.

Fruity vinegar? Mine always comes as malt.

We've suddenly got these tiny flies too, appeared in the last week.