How to get rid of flies and fruit flies
We hate flies and short of a swatter are there other ways to get rid of them? Yes!
To get rid of flies:
1. Clean your house!
This is one of the simplest techniques you can use to do away with flies because it is inexpensive and easy to accomplish. If you really want to eliminate flies completely, then start by ensuring that your house is clean all the time because flies become more attracted to dirty surfaces than to clean ones. Use orange flavored cleaners. Flies don’t like the smell of orange. And clear bread and any other food remains.
2. Use natural insect repellents
Flies do not like the smell of cloves, basil, oranges, or apples studded with cloves. For instance, you can capitalize on this fact by setting up a basket of organic cloves in your home, planting basil in window-boxes or by simply making a patch of basil by the front door. Also, you may cut oranges and pack them with salt after juicing to act as flies deterrent. In addition to repelling insects, these natural repellents add ornamental value to your room and also leave it smelling fresh.
3. Use a homemade fly trap
Using a fly trap is one of the easiest techniques to execute and monitor, especially the homemade fly trap. For instance, you can coax these insects into a lidded jar by placing food that attracts them to the bottom. Ensure that you punch a few holes in the jar’s lid so that the flies may enter the trap to their demise because after getting into the trap, the flies will not be able to fly back out. Given that this home remedy uses a simple homemade trap, it is therefore very inexpensive, easy and simple. Commercial fly strips work well too.
4. Use water bags
Using water filled bags is the most efficient home remedy for how to do away with flies. It involves hanging half full gallon size water bags at or near areas where flies seem to graze. The premise behind this technique is simply light refraction that causes the many lens in the flies’ eyes to distort what the flies see. This lens effect casts images that portray spider webs hence scaring flies away. Any type of reflector would work.
5. Scoop the poop.
If you have any animals, then you know! Flies love poop.
6. Make sure you don’t have standing water.
It will attract the flies. If your sprinklers are always leaving a puddle it will attract flies.
Keeping them away from the beginning is the best way to have fewer around and in your house.
To get rid of fruit flies: When I first read this on Pinterest I was sure it wasn't going to work but it does.
Use a small glass jar and fill it 1/2 way with apple cider vinegar. It must be apple cider. Then add water and a bit of dish detergent. It will be foamy at the top. Give it a minute and watch the carnage.
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To get rid of flies:
1. Clean your house!
This is one of the simplest techniques you can use to do away with flies because it is inexpensive and easy to accomplish. If you really want to eliminate flies completely, then start by ensuring that your house is clean all the time because flies become more attracted to dirty surfaces than to clean ones. Use orange flavored cleaners. Flies don’t like the smell of orange. And clear bread and any other food remains.
2. Use natural insect repellents
Flies do not like the smell of cloves, basil, oranges, or apples studded with cloves. For instance, you can capitalize on this fact by setting up a basket of organic cloves in your home, planting basil in window-boxes or by simply making a patch of basil by the front door. Also, you may cut oranges and pack them with salt after juicing to act as flies deterrent. In addition to repelling insects, these natural repellents add ornamental value to your room and also leave it smelling fresh.
3. Use a homemade fly trap
Using a fly trap is one of the easiest techniques to execute and monitor, especially the homemade fly trap. For instance, you can coax these insects into a lidded jar by placing food that attracts them to the bottom. Ensure that you punch a few holes in the jar’s lid so that the flies may enter the trap to their demise because after getting into the trap, the flies will not be able to fly back out. Given that this home remedy uses a simple homemade trap, it is therefore very inexpensive, easy and simple. Commercial fly strips work well too.
4. Use water bags
Using water filled bags is the most efficient home remedy for how to do away with flies. It involves hanging half full gallon size water bags at or near areas where flies seem to graze. The premise behind this technique is simply light refraction that causes the many lens in the flies’ eyes to distort what the flies see. This lens effect casts images that portray spider webs hence scaring flies away. Any type of reflector would work.
5. Scoop the poop.
If you have any animals, then you know! Flies love poop.
6. Make sure you don’t have standing water.
It will attract the flies. If your sprinklers are always leaving a puddle it will attract flies.
Keeping them away from the beginning is the best way to have fewer around and in your house.
To get rid of fruit flies: When I first read this on Pinterest I was sure it wasn't going to work but it does.
Use a small glass jar and fill it 1/2 way with apple cider vinegar. It must be apple cider. Then add water and a bit of dish detergent. It will be foamy at the top. Give it a minute and watch the carnage.
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