They’re driving me crazy! They’re all over the fucking place! In the basement, in the living room, in the kitchen. I even found one in the refrigerator!!! How the hell are they getting into the house? All the windows have screens. The doors are never opened for any length of time. I’ve tried swatting them but it’s a futile endeavor. (Not to mention gross. - I really need one of those “YUCKY” smilies for this post) I put up a couple of sticky things I bought at Home Depot. (also gross) I searched the internet for advice. I read that mothballs are supposed to keep them away but after I bought a box of mothballs I read the warning label and it scared the hell out of me. Seems like they are more dangerous to humans than they are to insects.
What am I to do? There’s one bold sonofabitch who keeps dive bombing me. I swear I can hear a tiny Vincent Price laugh. And to quote him - Help me!, help me!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Keep frogs?
Seriously, maybe you have a nest of them somewhere under the house?
Flies are attracted to corpses. Check around your closets to make sure you have disposed of them all and er…maybe ask your significant other if YOU have seemed a little sluggish lately.
But no matter, ask and ye shall receive. There are a couple of effective ways to get rid of flies but I have never tried one of them indoors. One is called a “Big Stinky”. It is a fly trap baited with a whole, dead catfish or other similar items. http://www.geocities.com/bigstinkyflytrap/ It has to sit for a few days to be effective but it will work for several weeks with the same bait.
Another way is to shop Wal-Mart for fly traps lightly laced with pheromones. This might be a good way to go since all the flies will be attracted to the trap, never to return. It is similar to marriage in a way.
If you are serious about catching flies, the pheromone is available in liquid form from the Sears farm catalog anlong with a selection of traps to use it in. Every fly for several miles downwind will be in the trap in a matter of a few hours. This is serious business though, so don’t be careless with the stuff. I used to load a diluted version in a squirt gun and spray it on the neighbor’s children and dog. Almost immediately a few million flies which would rather die than leave were swarming over the kids and dog. They’d all start hollering to beat hell and the lady would run outside and FREAK OUT. She eventually came to believe her children were possessed by Beelzebub and moved away.
My current neighbors recently decided they like to sing along with their karaoke machine late on Friday night and it sounds like they are killing cats over there. It may be time for another haunting.
How about those bug bomb spray cans? Or better yet, call an extermination company.
Try vacuuming them off the windows. It will probably work, and it will look funny as hell to anyone who sees you.
Great idea Cornflakes! I tried it and it works. Not a permanent solution but a vast improvement. Actually kind of fun too. I was snatching them suckers right out of the air!
I checked out the stinkybomb website too. But I don’t really want to attract the freakin’ things. I want to repel them. That’s a funny story about the squirt gun. I’ll have to keep that one on file.
Thanks to all.
To Peanut:
Are you over a crawlspace? Or do you have an attic? I’m wondering if some critter crawled into a deep, dark spot and DIED. Flies are enchanted with disgusting things. Check to see if you’ve got nasties which missed the trashcan. We were plagued with gnats until I found a very, very deceased banana.
<shudder>
Then, of course, there’s the Amityville Horror type situation. Perhaps you need an exorcist…
~VOW