FUCKING FLIES

[BumbleBeeeeeee]

I have fucking had enough of fucking shitty bastard grotty fucking flies all over my fucking kitchen!!! Fucking fuckers.
That is all.

I have an automatic insect control dispenser. I don't see nearly as many flies these days, a few still get through but not many. Don't you have them in the UK?

Dp is refusing to use the downstairs toilet atm because according to him "it's like taking a shit in swarm"

Buzz fly catchers are a game changer - gross to change them but l literally get no clues in my kitchen when l hang one outside the back door

Avon skin so soft no longer works as they changed the recipe. How very dare they. Everyone knows you don’t buy it for skin softening purposes only as fly repellent....

I have sliding style patio doors. I’ve been opening it about 50cm and pinning a full length chiffon scarf up with clothes pegs, tops and sides. It lets air in and keeps flying bastards out.

As Kryton in Red Dwarf would say ‘engage smug mode’.

We have a tennis racket shaped device that you zap them with. Lots of fun from poundland

I read recently that the knock-down chemical used in fly spray was banned several years ago, and the manufacturers never mentioned it. You may as well spray air freshener at them. Raid is useless, it just gives them a mild headache for a while which they shake off with a nice lie down and a cold compress and then carry on their germ-ridden, irritating, merry way.

@Canuckduck

Why don’t British homes have fly screens on the windows?!?! I never understood this when I was living there. It’s not like you don’t have insects.

We used to have net curtains up, which kept the majority of the bastards out for far less money, but somewhere along the line, that became something really bad to have as it made you Not Posh.

Since DP put up a weighted net for the back door, we've had one fly in the house (which probably snuck in as the DTwatCat went out), no bumblebees, no wasps, no honeybees and, thankfully, as I really don't get on with the cunting things at all (the red mark and scar on my calf muscle has taken four years to fade), no Horseflies.

I would vouch for previous poster's tip for fruit flies. Get a jam jar, fill with an inch or so of cider vinegar (no spare wine in this house ) and squirt a little fairy liquid in. I put a lid on the jar with holes punched in it. I am a nature lover but have to admit that it's quite satisfying to see the little corpses accumulating in the jar!

I've never heard of "leftover wine"!
Yes I live in the country. Fucking bluebottles everywhere.
My cat is a fussy little shit and meows for wet food then barely eats any of it, so unless we bin it straight away it gets covered in flies then they lay eggs. Grim.
Just bought one of the yellow hanging bottle things so hopefully that will get rid otherwise I may lose my fucking mind!

For all those saying Raid doesn't work, the blue one is shit. You need the red one. I've used it on everything from spiders to wasps and they die in seconds. It also stays on the surface (if it's not somewhere you're going to be touching) and insects die for weeks after if they step on it.

Fill quarter of a cup with some leftover wine

Leftover wine? What is this stuff, please, I am unfamiliar with the concept.

@Durgasarrow as I said upthread we have roller midge screens at all of our windows , they are made to measure and very easy to fit I really can’t understand why more people don’t get them .

I was feeling like this yesterday and I remembered DMIL brought us back a "Kill Insects Electronique" from France (tiny battery-operated executioner's tennis bat). It is awesome! Wish I'd had it last year in the posh cottage on a dairy farm that was riddled with flies (and too posh to provide flypaper). If a Lakeland near you is open, they have lots of solutions including a mesh pop up thing to go over fruit/cake and weighted doily things to go over smaller items. I would totally get a beaded curtain for the kitchen door too. In North America, they have screen doors everywhere. We should too (along with window shutters like the continentals).

Omg your post has just made me realise that I haven’t seen any flies in my house at all this summer!!!! How odd!

I have a very good fly swat which DD brought back from Australia, where the flies are serious.

They’ve been really stressing me out this weekend. Now ordered the magnetic door screens...

I keep shouting “but the kitchen’s clean! It’s not like we have dead bodies in here!”

Yeh they’re little buggers. My one lockdown losing it was yelling at a fly.

I grew up in Aus and they are worse but the fly screen was elevated to king. Shut at all times.

If you have an opened up house at back do you get more, sane or fewer?

Same

Interesting! I never heard of "roller midge screen." It sounds like a good idea, better than a net curtain!

Instead of leftover wine, red wine or cider vinegar with the dish soap deals with the fruit flies. For those who get a lot of flies, get fly traps (multiple) with a chemical attractant up in your garden. You will be horrified by how many get caught. Fly screens on the windows will also change your lives.

Lastly, instead of fly spray, I put cheap, nasty dishwashing liquid with some water in a spray bottle. It will disable them long enough for you to dispatch them. This works with cockroaches too but I don't really see them in this country.

@Angelina82

Omg your post has just made me realise that I haven’t seen any flies in my house at all this summer!!!! How odd!

No, of course you haven't they're all living at my house.

As soon as I open my back door they fly in, across the room and buss at the window - not kitchen related at back door is in the living room.

I can spend ages trying to get them out the window but they're too stupid and just bang their horrible bodies over and over on the glass of the bit of the windows that can't be opened.

Meanwhile, I'm opening the other side of the window yelling at them to get out.

I've made such a fuss about them over the years that my dog now thinks that flies are terrifying and rushes upstairs every time one comes in. Oddly enough, they never seem to go upstairs.

This thread has quite cheered me up as I was beginning to think it was just me.

My poor dh gave up on any romantic shannanigans the other night all because of a fly!! By the time I had chased the little fucker round the bedroom with a flip flop swinging randomly like some seriel killer I was too shattered for anything.
At his suggestion the fly screens are on the way...

I bloody hate bastard flies. We seem to get swarms of bluebottles every summer.

I am going to try these essential oils as they drive me nuts

Window screens are your friend. I have the roller blind type. Unfortunately a few gnats seem to get in still but even so I wouldn't be without them.