how to get rid of flies outside home remedies

How To Get Rid Of Flies Outside Home Remedies

The world of flies is a large one. There are more flies in this world than the ones buzzing around your yard. The most common flies you will see in or outside of your home are house flies. They are small, dull in colour and have four stripes on their thorax. This insect is attracted, like most flies, to garbage. They like decaying organic matter in almost any shape and form and if that matter is not tightly sealed it will attract flies. Flies may seem innocuous but they can be a serious danger. They will land in dung and then land in your fruit bowl which can spread dangerous diseases and cause food poisoning or worse. For this reason, it is very important to keep all garbage tightly sealed and in a solid lockable container that is stored inside, preferable in a garage with a door that closes firmly to the ground with rubber weather stripping to make a tight seal. This will go a long way to preventing severe infestations in your home and in your yard.

If you leave a lot of meat out, like say you had a big BBQ and you decided you will put some foil over the leftover burgers and take care of them later. It’s more than likely when you return after only ten or twenty minutes you will find the area covered in flies. Flies can sense food from a great distance, anything decaying. Cooked food has been externally treated with heat to start the digestive process outside of our bodies so we can digest the food easier and with less illness and infection. That means the food we cook is now essentially rotting. This will bring all sorts of flies from house flies to flesh flies and blow and bottle flies. Bottle flies are the bright reflective green insects that hover over and infest roadkill and garbage cans. While moths and drain flies are common in the house, maggots and black flies are not. If you see maggots in your garbage you have a big problem because getting rid of black flies can be very difficult.

maggots infestation To specify how serious this issue is, in ancient times and all the way into the early 1800s, there was a belief that maggots were their own specific species and that flies were spawns of the devil and that they grew from dead meat. This of course was wrong, maggots are the first stage of a hatched fly, called a Pupa. They will go through a full transformation including a motionless stage where they are encased, like the chrysalis of a caterpillar. All fully transforming insects go through this stage at least once, some multiple times. There are insects that go through dozens of transformations before reaching maturity. However, the maggot does not take as long to transform as those types of flies.  The maggot will crawl to a place it feels is safe and then will begin to wriggle madly. It is shaking itself off from the inside of its hardening skin. When they are free they will stop moving and rest. The casing turns from bright white to dark brown and looks almost like a cockroach ootheca. The egg casing for cockroach eggs. This process finishes with a nearly fully matured fly escaping its capsule. A female housefly is capable of producing over one hundred and fifty eggs in one birthing. This is why they seem to appear from nowhere and in great numbers. It only takes one fly to get into your garbage and you will have an immediate infestation.

Killing flies is hard. They can fly after all and that means you will need to spray something either on them or on where they sleep which is the ceiling. You can try using hot pepper or clove oil but the area is very large and non-specific, so it will be a lot of work. You can also try getting a bug zapper off the web but those are not fully effective when the source of the issue has not been dealt with. The real way to fight flies is to inspect your food garbage regularly for maggots. These nasty things can be taken care of just by tying up the bag and taking it to a disposal area or even just putting it in the garbage by the curb. But whatever you do, deal with the garbage issue before you get an infestation. Rotting meat and fruit are the biggest attractors and once an outdoor fly infestation starts, ending it can be nearly impossible.

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