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How do you cope with flies

Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
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Help!  we seem to have an awful lot of flies this year, more than I recall having lived here 11 years. The farms are doing nothing unusual and it seems to affect everyone in our area.

 We have tried all regular sprays, kept windows doors shut etc but nothing seems to even kill the ones we have!

any ideas? Horrid problem and driving the dogs daft too

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
A A Milne
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    We don't get many here (hope I've not talked them up) but one house I lived in used to get a lot of flies come indoors in the summer months.  We found that a Vapona Pen was very effective.  It's a clear liquid in a sort of felt tip pen - you draw it around the edge of each window pane - you can hardly see it, but when the flies walk over it, and they usually do, it doesn't take long for whatever the stuff is to kill them.  You just have to sweep or vacuum them up each day.

    I liked it because it was invisible and I wasn't spraying noxious stuff into the air.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    You need to dispose of the dead bodies better LP....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    thanks Dove   Sadly have used that  this year no effect and it's a new one. 

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Fairy!!!! Argggggg!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    What about the old fashioned sticky fly paper LP or my friend in Devon who always has lots as she backs onto fields Hoovers them up! ?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Thought some people were missing ........................ 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Beaus mum. sometimes the old ones are the best, I will try and get some papers tomorrow.

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    yuk Tetley. What are cluster flies?

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • michael mpcmichael mpc Posts: 422

     hi lilly pilly     I get a lot in my g/house  but inpound land now and again they have fly paper on a roll you buy them in 10s  so I get 2 boxes and use them in shed also  when they are full I roll them up and take home and bin them

  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193

    Where we lived in Somerset we were beset with cluster flies;  pest control chap said that, if there was such a thing as a "clean fly" then the cluster fly was it, since they feed on pollen rather than obnoxious stuff that the common housefly chooses.

    We used to have thousands (and I mean thousands and thousands!) that over-wintered along the rafters in the attic.  They are immune to fly spray (which I prefer not to use anyway) so I got a long nozzle on the vacuum cleaner and "hoovered" them up.  After a couple of years, the numbers had reduced to a minor inconvenience - but I was ever vigilant thereafter.

    If you have the horrid sort of fly, then, unpleasant though its appearance is, the old-fashion fly paper is pretty good.  Failing which, a good swipe with a fly swatter does the trick. image

    Last edited: 07 September 2016 20:00:02

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