Flies are everywhere! There is not a home in America whose counter hasn’t been home to at least a few hundred fruit flies. Not a home in America that hasn’t experienced the unparalleled awkwardness of a cluster fly watching them from the wall all day. Having flies in the home is common but it certainly isn’t ideal.
Flies carry diseases and can quickly pass those diseases onto every surface they land on – and they land on a lot of surfaces. This makes it important for you, now more than ever, to prevent flies from moving into YOUR home. But how can you prevent flies, if they are so common? This week we’re breaking down our 3 simple steps to preventing flies in your home.
How to Prevent Flies Step 1: Know how many flies is too many flies
If flies are normal then how can you know when to get help? Easy. If you see more than maybe 5 flies, on a regular basis you have a fly problem. Flies may fly into your home by accident or when looking for food – this is how you get that one pesky fly on the wall for a few days. If the flies cannot find food they will just buzz around until they perish or find a way out.
If the flies are sticking around or growing in numbers that means they have found a food source and if you don’t remove it you will have a few hundred unwanted house guests in just a matter of weeks.
How to Prevent Flies Step #2 Remove their food source
There are three main types of flies that you may encounter in the average home; the fruit fly, the cluster fly and the flesh fly.
The fruit flies are the tiny little flies you see a lot of every summer. They swarm around organic food sources like fruit. Once you find the source, move the source of their food to an unreachable location like a cabinet or fridge. If that is not possible or you wish to leave your fruit bowl on the counter you can make a DIY fruit fly trap.
Simply fill a glass or mason jar with apple cider vinegar about ¾ of the way full. Then cover the glass with plastic wrap, secure with a rubber band and poke a few pin holes in the plastic wrap. The apple cider vinegar attracts them to fly in the glass and they cannot fly back out so they meet their doom inside the glass and not on your fruit!
Cluster flies are the standard fly, the fly most of us think of when we think of a fly. They also eat organic food sources. Look at the bottom of any unclean trashcan and you’ll find dozens of them! They also swarm around, and lay eggs, in and around their food source so it’s easy to find. Once located, simply remove, clean up or discard the source and the flies should dissipate almost instantly.
Flesh flies look exactly like cluster flies. Even for those of us that work with flies everyday, fly experts if you will, can’t even tell the difference simply by eye. The main difference is their preferred food source. Flesh flies prefer flesh. If you have flesh flies in your home it means you have a dead animal, likely a rodent somewhere near. Removing that animal will drive away the flies quickly.
How to Prevent Flies Step 3: Call in Some Reinforcements
Flies are everywhere! Flies can sneak in your home through open windows, open doors or even just large cracks or openings. Preventing files entirely is an impossible task. But occasionally flies become a problem and when that happens it’s time to call for help. If you have more than a few flies in your home day after day after day and you’ve tried to remedy the situation without success – your best bet will always be to call an expert.
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