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bouicca21
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I reckon there isn’t an answer to this but putting it out there just in case there is.
It’s good weather so I am opening up my patio doors and a window or two - and in come the flies. Yesterday I had at least half a dozen. Is there any way of deterring them? I’d understand if they were coming from the front as the food waste bin is stored in the front garden - at least 20 or so feet from my windows. But they mainly seem to come in through the north east facing patio doors. Sometimes they fly in, take a look round and zoom out again, it’s the ones that decide to stay that annoy me. I’m zapping them with fly spray but I’m none too sure how healthy that is (for me, clearly decidedly unhealthy for the flies).
It’s good weather so I am opening up my patio doors and a window or two - and in come the flies. Yesterday I had at least half a dozen. Is there any way of deterring them? I’d understand if they were coming from the front as the food waste bin is stored in the front garden - at least 20 or so feet from my windows. But they mainly seem to come in through the north east facing patio doors. Sometimes they fly in, take a look round and zoom out again, it’s the ones that decide to stay that annoy me. I’m zapping them with fly spray but I’m none too sure how healthy that is (for me, clearly decidedly unhealthy for the flies).
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We have light voile curtains across the patio doors. If the flies seem particularly keen to come inside, I close them and it does the trick. As they're thin, they block barely any light coming in and still let the breeze through nicely enough - the breeze goes around the sides and underneath but the flies see something they can't go through and don't seem to try going round.0
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There are special net curtain things you can get and put across your doors which stop flies getting in. I don't know the technical name for them, my friend had some. I'm sure if you googled it you'd get something come up.
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bouicca21 said:I reckon there isn’t an answer to this but putting it out there just in case there is.
It’s good weather so I am opening up my patio doors and a window or two - and in come the flies. Yesterday I had at least half a dozen. Is there any way of deterring them? I’d understand if they were coming from the front as the food waste bin is stored in the front garden - at least 20 or so feet from my windows. But they mainly seem to come in through the north east facing patio doors. Sometimes they fly in, take a look round and zoom out again, it’s the ones that decide to stay that annoy me. I’m zapping them with fly spray but I’m none too sure how healthy that is (for me, clearly decidedly unhealthy for the flies).You don't live in West Bristol do you ?Avonmouth area has had a fly problem for years - every summer - the council seems inept about a solution,,,,
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