Flys all over the house?

Question

My house has loads of flys, never had this problem before. Have bleached everything but still they come. Other than filling the air with poison - any suggestions?

Answer 1

Not a fly expert, but with ants (my problem, seasonally), they are not coming to watch TV.  Looking for food, usually, and I get rid of them by getting rid of their food supply.  Ants are a big problem because they need only a smear on a counter-top to attract them.  For flies, I could check open garbage.  Do you keep kitchen waste under  the sink and take it out on garbage day?  Keep it clean and keep it covered might be a help.  

Answer 2

Close windows, doors and any other object that can let in the air.

Answer 3

get those sticky icky fly traps that you can hang from the ceiling. hang them inside the kitchen and your living room.

Answer 4

There is something dead somewhere nearby.  If it's not in your place check nearby apartments or your neighbor's house.

Flies don't just appear out of nowhere for nothing.

Answer 5

light candles around the house

get a paper bag....put water in it and a roll a ball of aluminum foil tie it and ta-da

i no sounds weird but it works lol

Answer 6

Flypaper is probably the best choice if pesticides can't be used. This is usually how resteraunts handle this problem. It looks unattractive, especially with lots of flies stuck to it, but it is quite effective. In the subtropics, houses tend to be very open and small lizards are effective fly preditors. In colder regions, house spiders can be creepy, but they  are probably one of the best organic forms of insect control available.

In old Europe, certain toadstools were used for fly control. The toadstools were placed in a shallow saucer of milk. The toadstools contained hallucinogenic compounds and the flies fell into a stupor, slipped into the milk and drowned.

Answer 7

It is fly season.  Look around your yard and you will see most flowers/shrubs and trees covered with them.

Leave a fan blowing towards the entries of the home to prevent new ones from coming in.

To get rid of them you might have to just do one more good cleaning and put up a few pest strips and arm yourself and every room with a fly swatter.

They do not always appear because of dirt but if there is no dirt to eat they won't hang around.

Answer 8

When a weather front is coming in, flys look for places to hide.  In the fall of every year they invade homes and other buildings looking for safety from the storms.

  As the front intensifies, they fly in tight circles or zig-zags, up around the ceiling, or down near the floor, hordes of them.

your house has some small and obscure openings they are using to get inside..  screened windows prevent them escaping to the outside again.

  during the afternoon, open your door, close the curtains, and they will fly toward the sunlight and out the door.

  Or, declare war ..  hunting flys does no great harm to nature.

Answer 9

They are coming from somewhere. A fly only lives 2-3 weeks assuming it has food so they are breeding somewhere. Either the "somewhere" is outside and they have a "way in" (unlikely, unless you leave doors and windows open because they're not intelligent like mice to be able to go in and out of a small hole), or most likely they're breeding inside.

You need to find what they are laying eggs on and the maggots are living on. Clean it up and one spraying of fly killer will be the end of it.

Answer 10

I find that to be very rude.  What is wrong with flies?

Answer 11

Put a bowl of vinegar out. Put saran wrap over it. Punch holes in it. The flies will crawl into it and get stuck and die. It works.

Answer 12

probably just a normal thing with all of the hot, dry, humid heat that's going around our nation. Try the good ole flyswatter or you're gonna have to use flying insect spray or call the exterminator. Good luck!