Flies and fly spray

[duchesse]

I remember back in the golden days 70s, when you squirted some fly spray, removed yourself swiftly, came back 10 mn later and they were all dead.

So my sister has this horrific fly problem in her house. She lives on a horse farm, and the house is SPOTLESS but full of fucking flies (of the kind that bite at this time of the year).

Against her principles, she succumbed and bought some spray today. We followed the instructions to the letter, sat outside for an hour looking forward to sweeping up the corpses, but nothing. The flies look a little dazed, rubbing their legs together and stumbling around, but they are then recovering one and one and flying off again virtually unaffected.

What the jeff is going on here?

The spray is truely crap I was clearing up after dinner I put the leftovers in a bag and tied it up. I looked after 5 mins the bag was full of flies so I made a little hole stuck the nozzle in and filled the bag with fly killer it did fuck all to them. The stuff would better if you hurled the can at them!

That's pretty damning, puppy... Bloody hell, what can we do about them? It's becoming properly unbearable. They are just everywhere, crapping on everything in sight.

The solution seems to be to vacuum them up. You have to move slowly and stealthily, but sooo satisfying!

Tell her to leave the cobwebs, they are natural fly killers

What spray are you using? I bought Raid the other day and it seems to be working, when sprayed directly at the flies, at least.

Which was more effective than my previous strategy: encourage them to the oven and then light the gas hob when they land!

Raid (contains permethrin I think). They just looked a bit groggy for a while, cleaned themselves and set off again on their disgusting daily activities. There were several hundred in here yesterday. Maybe a dozen died after the spraying. Most of the ones we sprayed directly just flew away from it. I think they are resistant. Either that or the spray contains no active ingredient.

Vacuum cleaner working very well I must say. Just a few of the smarter buggers left.

Sounds horrible; glad you are getting on top of them!

Went on a holiday by the Red Sea once. Would've been lovely if it hadn't been for the flies. They only come for about three days a year, the people working there told us. Not much consolation to us as they'd chosen the three days we were there! They did their best to cover all the food, but it really put me off my food.

At least they didn't bite, though.