They are being culled by the cooler temps, next year, what to do to avoid flies? Professional house sprayers? I early morning Hoover and fly gun, but always open the house up for most of the day, every day. what to do ?
trade4us2,
Mar 27, 4:42pm
Put insect mesh over all open windows and doors. We don't have any flies in our house unless someone leaves a door open.
nzdoug,
Mar 28, 4:49am
We have all that stuff but the dog wants in and the cat wants out. We open up all the sliding doors and windows most of the day. Do we have "Agent Orange" for flies?
ianab,
Mar 28, 10:42am
We found some old school fly papers at "Best For Less" $2 for 4.
Doesn't get them all immediately of course, but it's darn effective without fly spray killing our fish.
After a couple of days throw it in the bin with ~100 dead flies.
skin1235,
Mar 28, 2:40pm
buy a can of ripcord and spray now, mix it to the correct dosage and spray the house and around all entrances, especially on the shaded sides, its what the professionals use - and charge like wounded bulls for - needs a repeat spray after about 3 months, plenty long enough for the fly season, spray again at the end of sept mid oct and again before xmas tried planting things like Ice Plant Daisy around or near doors and under windows?, its a natural perethrim - kills flies, certainly keeps the numbers down, but can be a bugger to control once in full grow mode, a saucer of crushed fresh mint with a little water on a windowsill does deter their entry too
speeedy1,
Mar 28, 3:04pm
Also, flies only move upwind following smells. They do not move downwind. So, if you need to open windows and doors, open those where the breeze blows inward. This is not foolproof but will reduce the fly problem markedly. Dogs and cats excluded. Or, go to the far end of the section, downwind and have a dump there .
nzdoug,
Mar 29, 6:48am
This sounds good. Thanks for your detailed reply.
nzdoug,
Mar 29, 6:51am
Also a good advice. We live in a high wind area, so we do vent the house to steer flying objects, like flies. Sou westers cause blowing sand drifts in the bathroom. Lifes a beach.
Problem with flies in the kitchen, put a bucket of s**t in the lounge.
nzdoug,
Apr 1, 2:45am
Or have dinner guests take a dump in the lounge. Do you think that would work?
ruby2shoes,
Apr 1, 4:13am
I read somewhere that flies don't like basil. So, feeling all witchy-poo like, I simmered some basil leaves and was letting it cool so I could wipe kitchen benches, window sills, door frames. Went back and there were some drowned flies in my potion.
tegretol,
Apr 1, 5:33am
We have one of those Doc buckets about 30m away from the house and we also have cattle at that distance. We never have flies in the house at all, I mean never.
arcane1315,
Apr 1, 10:45am
What have you baited it with - and does it keep the flies away from your cattle also? My poor girl is being terrorised by the bluddy things
tegretol,
Apr 1, 6:17pm
No doesn't keep flies away from cattle but certainly keeps them out of the house. Bait is pigs liver with some yeast to start then just make sure it has water in all the time. The dead flies then become the bait.
planespotterhvn,
Apr 3, 11:29pm
Ruud Kleinpaste says keep the windows on the sunny side shut, the flies are trying to find a cooler darker place to keep cool. Open the windows on the shady side, the open windows match the shade and the flies do not come in. Close and open windows as necessary while the sun swings across the house.
shione,
Apr 9, 10:11am
Put some lavender oil on some cotton wool and leave around the house. I've been using lavender for the last 2 years and have none or maybe 3 - 6 . but they soon go
koru67,
Apr 9, 10:26am
We had flies a few months ago, attracted by the cats biscuits. So we bought a surefeed motion activated pet bowl. The flies cannot get to the food and problem solved.
macandrosie,
Apr 9, 5:19pm
If you have alot of them & they're little fellas they're probably cluster flies! We've had them in Southland for the past 5-6 years every autumn they turn up. But this year we had a 3 month dry & much hotter temperatures, & they haven't reproduced nearly as much - almost gone here! Yeah! Very hard to control. Sometimes it's easier to have windows open so they go in but go out again. They let off a pheromone which of course attracts thousands of them. If you have a real lot you can ruin your vacuum cleaner! 2 springs ago I sprayed our lawns with a grass grub spray (sorry can't remember the name) someone else told me to spray the perimeter of your property with diesel. I haven't tried this. It may confuse their scent, don't know. You get really desperate.
vomo2,
Apr 10, 7:38am
Bin Inn fly spray is the only spray that works for us.
shione,
May 7, 3:14pm
For the last 2 years all I have used to keep flies away is lavender oil on either a strip of paper or on a cotton wool ball placed on window sills . flies do t die they just leave . I swear by it
dollydot,
May 10, 2:38pm
Drove us mad until we had fly screens fitted. Roller screen for french doors and sliding ones for windows on the hot side of the house. We can leave windows open on the cooler side and they don't come in. Expensive as we had them custom made to match the joinery but well worth it to not be driven mad by flies for the last two summers. Components come from Italy but put together here. They don't do magnetic as they don't last well. They do come in if we leave the screens open for the dogs to potter in and out so the only neg is having to open them for mini poodle and huntaway's trips out and in.
Not comfortable with sprays due to children and pets so for us this is a great option.
bcohen,
May 11, 3:36am
fly screens. definitely.
speeedy1,
May 12, 2:26pm
Gordys Fly traps work a treat also and have been around for eons. They attract, capture and kill the neighbourhoods flies too. http://gordys-flytrap-fitting.com/
Gordy was a friend and a real decent bastard.
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