Tiny flies in garden

[thatdarncat]

Looking for some advice. Taking advantage of the good weather and been drying my clothes outside on the whirly. Recently I've noticed spider webs on it but been wiping it down every day, however now there is no getting on top of it - I wipe them off and more appear with tons of tiny flies stuck to them. Tonight there were loads hovering about in little clouds. They are everywhere, all I've my DDs swing and slide. I don't have any pets. Does anyone have ideas for getting rid of them? I shake the clothes like mad but was hoping to get some ideas to solve the problem at source? Thanks in advance.

Ah right. Citronella in the garden then perhaps?

The outdoors is full of wildlife. You will not get rid of it. You could spray with insecticide if you want to kill some of them, but in a few weeks it will be cold and they will die.

If you have any fruit that has gone soft or fallen off the trees, they might be fruit flies. Or they could be various sorts of insect that live on plants or on compost or in damp ground and puddles. See if they fly out of any particular plant when you shake it.

If they are in little clouds of males, flying round a female, they might be a sucking insect, and the female will bite you.