Among Friends

[shaggygirl]

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@jlkz wrote:

@mollymaggie 

If you are trying to kill the flies inside, please try a battery-operated fly swatter.  When I first saw one at Harbor Freight store, I thought:  Right this won't work and it was about $4-5.  Am sure I also saw them on Amazon.

Well, I was wrong and sometime in early September  I got to use it as there would be an unusual number of flies in the great room.  All I had to do was get very near to

the fly: it would fly away and into the face of the swatter / racquet and be electrified on the grid.  No swinging the racquet at all and no blood smears !

Next time I got the racquet that used the larger batteries.

The racquet can deal with really tiny flying insects too.

HTH

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I love that thing! Never had one fly into it as you do but rather I wait till  they land, usually on a window, then I nail them. Bzzzzzzzzzz, fry you pesty little bugger!

[jlkz]

even very good for the nasty spotted lantern fly that hops as fast as you can see it !

[mousiegirl]

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@mollymaggie wrote:

We have a huge fly problem  They appear in the sprinf  They fly like a bat out of hell and they are the green typeIv paid a pest control company for 40 years So far noone knows where thry are coming from  They can be all over the windows in my livingroom  One year theybfoubd a dead animal in nt fireplce  wetook it away cleaned fireplace    I coverered all radiator enclosures and they seemed to cut down thr amount  To tell you I am losint my mind id putting it mildl                   Has anyone had this problem?  The company has gone over house trying to see what it can be

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@mollymaggie   When I open the laundry room door to the deck, flies get in.  I have been dealing with them in the kitchen for weeks, but one always follows me from room to room, so I finally remembered my bottle of Adams Flea and Tick spray, which takes care of any insect, and I use to keep ants away. I don't like using such, but enough of the ants and flies.  I havn't had an ant since I began spraying outside along the bottom of the slider where they enter. I spritzed the flies as they flew over the sink, and within hours, they were all deceased.  Once, I used a towel and slapped four at once into a dish of water in the sink.

[mollymaggie]

Thank you to all of the friends that responded to my fly problem  You took time out of your day to help me  I do think they are in the walls  I live in Weymouth ma   and Im going to google ranch fly traps  All of your advice was so right on

[RedTop]

@mollymaggie,

You, and/or the exterminator, need to be using a spray with pyrethrin to kill these flies!   

Whether they're hatching out in your chimney, the walls, your furniture, the right spray will get rid of them.   An effective exterminator should've nipped this in the bud a long time ago.   

If people with horses can control the flies in their barns, an exterminator should've been able to help you be more comfortable in your house.   

[BeccaLou]

@mollymaggie Qvc sells a thing called a dyna-trap , they really work. I had a strange fly problem and it took care of it. It will at least attract them and they get stuck on a sticky tape . It comes with an attractive shield so you won't see them. Try it it really helped and caught tons of them.Another question , do you have sky lights ? They can come in that way. I had it happen when I had junky skylights.