We have a bad problem with flies?

Question

What do we do, we have used fly strips but they are still here??

Answer 1

Get this kind of sticky paper. It has some scent on it and flies are going to be attracted to it and stick on to the sticky paper! (They are different from fly strips.)

Answer 2

I once worked in an office that had a serious fly infestation.  My boss told me that an exterminator said that they lived in the walls and needed professional treatment.  I literally killed like 50-100 flies only to sit down to type and have another horde invade the office.  In this case the boss plagued the landlord with calls insisting on the hiring of an exterminator, but he was too cheap.  

Here is a website that gives details about flies and how to get rid of them.

http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/aggu...

Answer 3

here is a country idea  that really works.  

take a quart size ziplock baggie. fill it 3/4 full of water. bring up the corners (zip part) to the middle and twist once. Then tie off with heavy string. the bottom corners should be pointing slightly upward. Look at you hand thru the water and if your hand looks really big  then you did it right. The flies fly towards it. look with their many eyes and see A GIGANTIC fly looking back at them but they think is their natural enemy the wasp... and they take off.  Yes the bag looks stupid and Yes everyone will ask you what the heck it is.  But this works...

and its doesnt spread around chemicals

Answer 4

look up maxforce fly bait. great stuff

Answer 5

Find the source.  There is somewhere in your house or around your house where they are breeding.  Check trash cans, maybe behind appliances, or perhaps if you own a caged animal with the animal bedding (like guinea pigs, hamsters, etc.) and you don't clean it very well.  Anywhere that there would be an accumulation of moisture and something to feed on for the fly larvae.

Answer 6

My old neighbor  had three big dogs in a pen right next to my driveway, I bought a fly catcher that held 10,000 flies, I emptied that thing at least three times a summer. I put it  near their pen but away from my deck which was very near, never had a problem with flies on my deck after that. Good Luck!

Answer 7

I really doubt your house has much to do with it.

But to clean out the c**p smell and other unknown smells, one of those electronic air

cleaners would be a good thing now.

Preferably a strong one.

Give the flies less to find interesting too.

Another trick is to realize that cloying smells stick to surface area.

Accoustic stucco ceilings, and rugs on the floor, have high surface areas.

They will have grabbed a load of the fertilizer smell from the air when it was

strongest,

   and will be slower to "dry up" than the great outdoors or your bare walls.

Just maybe that's why flies are staying there.

I might put out cheap kitty litter, covering about 4 square feet of newspaper in a

room,

close the doors and drive air in circles with a fan for a few hours.

Idea being to maximize transport of the smell from your textured surfaces into the fine

pores of the kitty-litter stones.

Then see if the flies leave the room voluntarily or sit still less.

Alternatively, making things warm can help to evaporate smells off of them.

If the outdoors is fresh already but flies still like your indoors, try running your

heater up to 85 for half hour,

then turning it off, openning windows, blowing fans thru them.

Temperature's influence on sticking of smells may be why the flies like some surfaces

outside your home.

Cool, damp surfaces will retain the smell (to the flies, maybe it's a taste) longer after

the wave of stink passes.

Or maybe the flies just like the warmest or coolest places, or staying out of the sun.

You'd have to try to see for yourself what fits.  Consider upwind/downwind and

wind-sheltered  vs breezy too.

If you can find one of those little ultrasonic pest repellers, battery powered, you might

put it on the end of a stick

and slowly walk around with it to see if they even try to stay 3ft away from it.

I don't think it will work, but it's a fine science experiment.

And if it does maybe you have a tool.

I think flies are just about smart enough to, if they accidentally fly out a door, turn

around and come back in,

if the indoors has some advantage they presently want.

Usually I am able to learn a little about handling things like this, if I can bear to

stand around and play with it.

Perhaps you can too.