Flies, flies and more flies

[megan242]

Hi

I'm looking for home made remedies for repelling flies. We live in the campo between two goat farms and as soon as the weather warms up we are swamped with flies, both outside and in.

They are mainly in the kitchen and seem to appear when the sun rises in the morning. An hour before sunrise - there are none. Then suddenly loads appear. Can they be breeding in the kitchen? I make sure that there is no food, crumbs or water left out in the kitchen and the outside door is closed unless we are going through it. None of our other rooms have this problem, we get an occasionally one or two but no more. Outside is a different matter though and we have given up trying to sit outside in the warm weather.

Does anybody else have this problem?
How do you deal with the flies?

[ajtg1952]

Try Red Top fly trap. I use 3 equally spaced around the house and about 15m each from the house.

[Enrique]

Hi,
Clear drinks bottles filled with water and hung around outside.

Those sticky fly strips outside and inside.

Put some fish waste in a drinks bottles( leave top off) and hang on edge of property.

[probe]

Not so sure about a "home-made" remedy. We bought one of the electric zappers from the ferreteria (€30) that has the UV light and fan on (commonly seen in butchers) and this does the trick in the kitchen at the time of year when flies bother us.

Probe

[Campo Steve]

We used to use the Red Top fly traps. They certainly killed plenty of flies but we got the impression the smell attracted replacement flies and gave up on them.

[Nimrod]

It's great fun to use those battery powered fly zappers like badminton racquets that they sell in the Chinese shops.
Gives you the power of life or death.

[Wicksey]

Our house is like Fort Knox with mozzie nets at the windows and a good quality heavy 'bead' curtain at the front door. We never get flies in but are plagued by tiny minature mozzies that bite like a pinprick and drive us nuts. We have every machine and spray under the sun but cannot stop being bitten at night. They are so tiny that even when you do see them any attempt to swat them just wafts them away.

Have you checked everywhere in the kitchen Megan - behind the fridge etc? We once left our house for a 2 week holiday all shuttered up and everything closed up, and came back to a huge swarm of 1000s of flies that had managed to somehow get in through all the closed windows and doors .... it was a nightmare. It is still a mystery how they got in.

[gus-lopez]

Hi,
Clear drinks bottles filled with water and hung around outside.

Those sticky fly strips outside and inside.

Put some fish waste in a drinks bottles( leave top off) and hang on edge of property.

Yes we've done all that .& the plastic bags with water & plated washers in & everything else that can possibly be thought of ! Doesn't solve the problem. We are inundated with them as well , except that we don't have any farms with goats or anything else. Best is 3 horses & a few sheep next door. Then again at my friends it is the same & he doesn't even have that ?
It has always been the same here, just some years are worse than others.
Here it is indescribable. If in the mornings I go around the olive trees having damp hair then the flies, normal flies not midges gnats or whatever, fall upon me . It is akin to a pirhana feeding frenzy.
You cannot do anything anywhere. The real problem with them is even though they are ordinary flies, they bite. People don't believe you , until they are bitten themselves !
If I have to work outside then the only thing that will prevent them staying on me is I spray myself with fly spray.Arms ,legs, under arms , neck , etc.
The slightest amount of water in sunlight will have ooo's of them about within a few minutes.

The fly chains on the doors. Well I've watched the flies & they will land on the chain & execute a roll through the larger hoop of the chain link !! Useless on their own
I have chains on both doors & then mosquito strips over the chains.
MY nephew & his wife were sitting outside until easter before the flies became too much for them. I don't sit outside at all as one is too much for me & it isn't even worth considering eating outside .
I don't do much without a can of fly spray , even to get in the car. It doesn't help being black & they'll be all over it & there's no way I go anywhere with even 1 fly inside the car . Same as I do not slepp if there is even one in the house.

The only way to clear your kitchen is to gas the whole room , shut the doors & leave them to die. I use YUKi or ROJo (? one with lion on )& it will kill them in no time at all.
I used toi spray all the walls/floors outside & the workshops etc; with a product called Diazopol

http://www.farmaciaveterinaria.es/index ... ts_id=1785

Which is supposed to kill everything including flies & prevent breeding but although it worked , it never worked as you would expect.
There isn't any answer except blow the place up & move.

[Unicorn]

https://www.google.es/search?q=www.aska ... 3&ie=UTF-8

This is using one of my favourite things- cider vinegar. Hope it helps.

[peteroldracer]

A dab of nenuco Colonia for babies seems to put them off from divebombing you at least...it explains that faintly sweet smell of most of the little old ladies (also works well on dogs!)

[knowal]

A dab of nenuco Colonia for babies seems to put them off from divebombing you at least...it explains that faintly sweet smell of most of the little old ladies (also works well on dogs!)

Nenuco repels dogs? That's excellent.

[peteroldracer]

Nenuco repels dogs? That's excellent.

I wish...