skizziks

About two days ago, I guess some flys got into my house. Now my house looks like Somalia (if you've been there, you know what I mean). I don't have rotting meat laying around, I don't have poop laying around, so that is not it.

How do I get rid of them, other than taking a flyswatter and hunting each and every fly?

One of those bug bombs is out of the question.

Any help?

inBOIL

There's probably some dead animal or trash nearby where the maggots have hatched. Find it and discard it, and the flies will disperse if there's nothing attracting them.

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Bear Cub

Flypaper, you know, the sticky strips. Hang a few of them. You wouldn't think something so basic would work as well at is does.

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genuinegirly

We have a neighborhood fly problem because the toad population is low this year. I understand your pain.

We have an electronic fly swatter that does wonders.

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Grancey

Had a fly problem about this time of year when I lived in the Midwest for a while. I used a vacuum cleaner. Sucked em' right up, nasty buggers.

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skizziks

Oooh, I dig the vacuum idea. Looks like I will put up fly strips, it will be the Appian Way of the fly world.

Lucifer

when he settles in like this, it's a bugger to get him out!

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Cynthetiq

is that one of those fly paper strips shaped like a wheelbarrow?

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Lucifer

yup, comes with it's own six-pack in genuine draft or lite flavours!

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Iliftrocks

Shop vac, whoo hoo

Make sure you go ahead and take any trash out too. I left mine in a closed can over a weekend, while I went out of town, and maggots were all in it, when I got back. yeesh

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clavus

You can buy fly traps - they have a liquid inside that smells like a dead thing, so don't spill. They catch a lot of flies, but are really for outdoor use.

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cker

My blood is like sweet candy to mosquitos, so I got something called a Skeeter Bag. It's a mesh cone that clips onto a box fan. The idea is that I hang out by the fan and as the mosquitos come to bite me they get pulled into the fan, and cannot crawl out against the wind. Maybe you could use something like that? If they're tiny little flies they may be fruit flies, which would be a little too small to get caught in the mesh (probably). You might be able to fabricate something like the bag and see if it works. Just put something delicious by the suck side of the fan...

One other thing that I've done is to take a plastic soda bottle, and cut off the top right where it starts to narrow. Turn that upside down so that the mouth faces into the remains of the bottle, then tape it up. Drop in something delicious like sugar water. It's much easier for them to get in than to get back out. There's a picture of it at Homemade Fly Traps - sugar water, yeast et c seems to draw them.

But yeah, get any trash, old fruit, et c out first.

skizziks

cker - Cool freakin fly trap, I'm gonna make it just to make it. THANKS!!!