to get a gun and shoot the flies in my house

[MmeLindt]

They are driving me mad. Flying about in my face. They are everywhere.

The supermarket had sold out of fly paper so no way of getting rid of them. I have to shoot them. Nothing else to be done.

One of these surely must work!

Don't even have a normal one. Will go to the DIY shop later and buy a blowtorch.

If you burned down your house you'll have bigger problems than flies!

True, but it would get rid of the little buggers.

Our kitchen is full of fruit flies from the compost bin thing. Yuk.

Fly paper might be a little less extreme.

Geneva is sold out of fly paper.

I have a spray tin of insecticide so my house smells awful and I have fly corpses everywhere.

we went to a pub the other day that had lots of wasps around and they have "the executioner" electric insect killers, like tennis rackets. v v cool.

Good way to keep the DC amused in the pub. Wasp Tennis.

well, kept me amused! seriously thought about getting one for the kids. But can just imagine them using it on each other.

have you tried a fly swat MmeLindt?? DH was shocked to find that they actually work and are very effective...

ChasingSquirrels
Eek at the DC using them on each other.

I always thought that fly swatters don't work. Will have a look when I am in town again. For now the napalm seems to have done the trick.

I find a tea towel very effective. You wait until they land on something and then whack them hard with a tea towel. Sometimes this just stuns them, so you have to check where they land and tread on them if necessary

I pay encourage DS1 to use the electric tennis racquet. He's very good with it - has a lovely forehand and smash now.

Ok, I am convinced that the electric tennis racket is a good idea. Will not give it to DS though, he has already broken 2 table lamps this year. And a vase.

Why waste your energy? Give this a go.

It really works well. I've got eucalyptus oil on my bins and popular fly-landing surfaces and that discourages them, too.

There seems to be a real plague of them this year.

Oh, I WANT one of those.

I used to work in a restaurant and we had one. It gives such a satisfying zzzzzzzt when the flies are BBQed.

Ours is a 30 watt one, and if you want to be really evil, there's a 40 watt version, too.
You have to turn it off overnight or you'll have a tray full of moths the next morning.