My home is being over run with flies , due to nieghbours keeping chickens in their back yard .
Help!
Our screens are all in perfect condition, I can't figure out how so many flies are getting into my house .
Help - Over run with flies
Gailnsw on 30/01/2019 - 23:55
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Owls eat mice, not flies… OP needs a frog (or a spider).
Hehe, it's for the chickens
Ahh when solving a problem, dig at the roots instead of hacking at the leaves.
There will be gaps in the house itself.
cork hat
By the time you read this, it will probably be too late … There will be nothing left of you :(
Unless you become their lord . Have them carry you round places, get you a beer, deal with your annoying neighbor;)
Fly high my friendUse the water bags trick.
You cant just say something obscure and then not explain it.
It's a well-known method of keeping flies away. Fill up small plastic bags with water and hang them around the place. The flies will then stay away.
The "trick" part refers to the OP being tricked into wasting their time.
the mosquitoes that breed in the water will kill the flies
It is like the trick used to stop dogs crapping on your lawn which is to put a whole bunch of plastic bottles filled with water.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-bewaring-o-the-green/
However, Snopes is calling "undeterminate" on this one as no one has done a study of it. Probably because having a yard full of water bottles is worse than having the dogs crapping there.
However, Snopes is calling "undeterminate" on this one as no one has done a study of it.
Scattering Eneloops around the place will definitely repel flies from all the negative ions being emitted. No one has done a study on it, so it might be true. 🤔
@try2bhelpful: 'worse' is subjective — a yard full of water bottles will look visibly worse, however a yard full of dog shit will smell far worse, especially if you have to walk through it.
@Nickels n Dimes: Unlikely the yard will be full of shit unless the place is overrun with dogs or you never pick it up. After a couple of days it dries out and the crumbles.
probs something inside the house attracting them… or creating them
Perhaps OP brought in some maggot infested bubble tea.
A few years ago, I was on a site where we had a massive fly problem (the whole area -not just the office).
My comment on this thread covers the stuff we tried to get rid of them and what worked/didn't work.
What type of fly you dealing with? Different types of fly will potentially have a different solution, catch one or find a dead one that is still intact and examine it using web to help ID it
I think you are a bit confused, spiders are the ones that make webs.
Lol very good
I know that the ringleader is called Louie.
Could be something dead in your roof like a possum. Happened to us and it was horrible
Make sure all your doors are self closing and that they close quickly
Nothing you do is going to last more than a few days. If the neighbour has bird feces everywhere then you're practically living next to a fly factory.
I could suggest every spray available (and I'm no stranger to industrial insecticides) and you'll get no satisfaction.
get one of those fly catcher jug things from bunnings that u fill with water. i love them. hang it outside in the sun in the yard. all the flies will go there and not in the house. works for us. takes about 2-3 days to start working though
I tried one of those above my compost bin, which seems to get a few flies breeding in there, but it didn't seem to work. Not sure if I set it up wrong, though.
it has to be in the sun. and u can wait up to a week once a few flies are in, u will start get hundreds a day, it gets crazy. rotting flies attracts more flies (yum)
u just have to top up the water if it get low.i took this pic 2 days ago in the back yard. i hung the trap on an old tamato wire for about a week and a half. the trap was so full the flies just kinda hung out on the wire o.0
How do you know it isn't attracting more flies?
@samfisher5986: it is. but it such a strong attractant for them. I can leave all the doors open and none come in. so even tho it attracts WAY more flies i get 0 in the house.
but without it i alwats had 5 or more.
i also think im helping out all my neighbours to within like a 50m radius.
Will give it another try. Thanks for the feedback.
Have you tried speaking to the neighbour about cleaning up the chook pen? Maybe offer to assist?
I had chooks and didn't have a fly issue. If it's that dirty it's not good for the chooks health either.
My neighbour had several thousand pigeons and flies weren't an issue (rats and mice on the other hand…)
get an owl