house fly problem

Chrysalis · 28-01-2007, 03:53

a week or so ago a fly came in via my front door when I was on the way out. Since then I have been having to get rid of more and more flies, started off with about 2 or 3 flies flying around, yesterday I got rid of about 6 or 7 flies during the day, today when I woke up there was 4 in the kitchen about another 5 in the hallway.

It would seem some eggs have been laid or something and I am going to be having a big problems unless I do something special about it.

any ideas what I can do? thanks.

Tinky · 28-01-2007, 07:45

This might help......

http://www.pestproducts.com/housefly.htm

Mr_love_monkey · 28-01-2007, 08:18

How do you keep flies out of the kitchen?

Keep a bucket of sick in the living room...

skyblueheroes · 28-01-2007, 10:24

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

How do you keep flies out of the kitchen?

Keep a bucket of sick in the living room...

greencreeper · 28-01-2007, 10:53

I've had a couple of Omen-style fly encounters...

My mate's bedroom window was covered in them - literally. Hundreds of the things

I mixed up a strong malathion solution and that sorted them out - for a while, but they came back, and kept coming back. The landlord couldn't find what was attracting them. The bedroom door did have marks on the outside where a bolt had been

And then at the flat I used to have - came home to find the kitchen full of flies doing an aerial display around the light fitting. Tea towel over my mouth and the best of a tin of fly spray - soon sorted them. I found loads of casings behind the cooker.

So - just keep killing them for now. Should eventually disappear.

Chrysalis · 28-01-2007, 12:49

well I been using mr muscle surface cleaner spray as a temporary fly spray it isnt killing them but paralyses them so they fall to ground and I then flush down the toilet, I am getting the aerial display sometimes round lights but mostly they seem to like dive bombing me

28-01-2007, 12:53

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

well I been using mr muscle surface cleaner spray as a temporary fly spray it isnt killing them but paralyses them so they fall to ground and I then flush down the toilet, I am getting the aerial display sometimes round lights but mostly they seem to like dive bombing me

Couldnt you get the " no slip " surface cleaner spray?

Orior · 28-01-2007, 19:32

Solution: Dont kill the spiders.

Angua · 28-01-2007, 19:37

A Basil plant on the kitchen windowsill helps, other than that those vapona or window sticker type things are good but you do need to have enough of them.

Ramrod · 28-01-2007, 19:38

Use them as target practice for your weapon of choice?

dilligaf1701 · 28-01-2007, 19:39

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Use them as target practice for your weapon of choice?

Chopsticks???

YOU beginner luck

marky · 28-01-2007, 19:43

I bet something died under the floor or something, if thats the case they will eat it within a week or so

Anonymouse · 28-01-2007, 20:14

You could try a Venus Fly-Trap. We had one once, but we weren't told that you have to feed it with meat and cheese if there aren't any flies available, and it died.

Fascinating to watch, though.

**Matt D** · 29-01-2007, 00:04

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Originally Posted by marky

I bet something died under the floor or something, if thats the case they will eat it within a week or so

I had a similar problem at my old house (one of many problems, lol) a couple of years ago.

We had a bit of a rat infestation (well, it was either rats or giant mice), through a hole in the kitchen. Used traps & also used poison.

Poison wasn't such a good idea...they just died under the floor & rotted away, causing us to then have a ridiculously huge Plague of Flies.

Many many cans of Raid were used up quite rapidly.........

Alien · 29-01-2007, 02:34

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Originally Posted by Matt D

We had a bit of a rat infestation (well, it was either rats or giant mice), through a hole in the kitchen. Used traps & also used poison.

I've heard peppermint oil makes a good rat deterrant, don't know about mice though.

Or just stop feeding the cat, until he earns his keep.

Last year [or the year before, I forget], I had a wasp nest in my loft, just above my bathroom, & because the pest inspector from the council was [apparently] deaf as a post & couldn't hear them munching away at the ceiling between the loft & my bathroom, he insisted they wouldn't eat their way through. I could hear them even with some music on & the bath running. Admittedly my hearing is slightly more sensitive than average, but the guy had to have a hearing problem as somebody else who came to visit could hear them from outside the bathroom [though with the door open], & he couldn't even hear them when he was actually in there!

Anyway, needless to say, they ended up coming through... on a Sunday, when I couldn't get hold of the council, so had to pay to have them dealt with privately!

A few months later, a firm sub-contracted by the council came round to put an extra layer of loft insulation in. As they were packing up & just about to go they noticed a wasp in my bathroom, presumably a stray that had somehow managed to avoid the fate of the rest of the nest a few months earlier.

Me: hold on, I'll just grab some spray.
/me comes back into bathroom [thats where the loft access is, coincidentally] brandishing a can of Neutradol
Contractor: <looks at can> That won't do it.
Me: wanna bet?

He hadn't noticed the lighter in my other hand.

Disclaimer: don't try this at home boys & girls, I've been doing it for years, & I've had a few near accidents. I probably shouldn't do it either, but...

Seriously though, if those poison stickers on the windows don't work, just buy a bug zapper.