How to get rid of flies?!!?

[woowoo]

Bury the body

 

[Wallydraigle]

If you or someone else in your building put out mouse poison there are probably dead mice in the walls that are being eaten by maggots. Since you're not smelling it, it's probably not around your apartment, but probably close. It'll go away on its own after a while. In the meanwhile, I'd go with the fly tapes.

 

[Kyteland]

Pour a pot of boiling water down each of your drains. It is possible for flies (especially fruit flies) to breed in there. The boiling water will kill them. Especially do this to your kitchen sink.

If that doesn't work then Your maid needs to do a better job cleaning up.

 

[DeMeo]

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: Spooner

Originally posted by: DeMeo
Obviously you have some how accidentally (hope it wasn't on purpose) opened the gates to hell. The flies are the precursor of demons and, yes, Satan himself to pass through the gates.

I'm not exactly sure how you can close the gate. I think you'll need the archangel Michael. I can't quite remember how to summon him.
Try googling for help.

No luck!

hahah, that was great.

http://www.sarahsarchangels.com/rituals/

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: woowoo
Bury the body

😎

Raid

bug bombs.

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron

Originally posted by: woowoo
Bury the body

😎
Raid
bug bombs.

trying to stay away from this entirely inconvenient method

 

[z0mb13]

check out ur trash can, there might be some leftover fruits there... flies love fruit

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: calvinbiss

Originally posted by: Wanescotting
Get a ziplock bag and fill it with water. Tie a string to it, and hang it on your porch. The flies will be gone.

No really, people actually do this in Stephenville, TX. I don't think it works, but you seem desperate........

those bags are for mosquitos, not flies. I think it has something to do with the way the light refracts or reflects from the bag, it scares them away or something. I've also heard that they fill the bags with sugar water, then the mosquitos try to suck some out, and there probosis gets stuck in the plastic and they die. Either way, it must work, i see this method everywhere. (Live in Texas and Florida)

Correct, it's for mosquitos, thus why you hang them outside on the porch. I'm not sure if it works, but a friend of mine does this. He doesn't use sugar water, just plain ole tap water.

edit: You likely have a food source somewhere in your place, as I doubt that many would 'get' in.

 

[BannedTroll]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: calvinbiss

Originally posted by: Wanescotting
Get a ziplock bag and fill it with water. Tie a string to it, and hang it on your porch. The flies will be gone.

No really, people actually do this in Stephenville, TX. I don't think it works, but you seem desperate........

those bags are for mosquitos, not flies. I think it has something to do with the way the light refracts or reflects from the bag, it scares them away or something. I've also heard that they fill the bags with sugar water, then the mosquitos try to suck some out, and there probosis gets stuck in the plastic and they die. Either way, it must work, i see this method everywhere. (Live in Texas and Florida)

Correct, it's for mosquitos, thus why you hang them outside on the porch. I'm not sure if it works, but a friend of mine does this. He doesn't use sugar water, just plain ole tap water.

We have always used this trick for flies.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mwaterbags.html

http://www.google.com/search?h...&q=bag+water+flies

 

[rayray2]

Originally posted by: djheater
I thought you said FILES...

 

[dullard]

Often there is a food source that you don't know about. Seek and distroy it.

I had that problem once. Struggled for weeks and we couldn't find the source. It ended up being a potato. The grocery store had 3 small potatos at the same price as a 10 pound bag of potatos, so we bought the 10 pound bag. We knew we could never use the potatos, but we couldn't pass up a bargain. All the potatoes looked just fine. But there was one rotten potato in the center that we couldn't see. Threw out the bag and the flies disappeared immediately. I've heard this happen with onions too.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: BannedTroll

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: calvinbiss

Originally posted by: Wanescotting
Get a ziplock bag and fill it with water. Tie a string to it, and hang it on your porch. The flies will be gone.

No really, people actually do this in Stephenville, TX. I don't think it works, but you seem desperate........

those bags are for mosquitos, not flies. I think it has something to do with the way the light refracts or reflects from the bag, it scares them away or something. I've also heard that they fill the bags with sugar water, then the mosquitos try to suck some out, and there probosis gets stuck in the plastic and they die. Either way, it must work, i see this method everywhere. (Live in Texas and Florida)

Correct, it's for mosquitos, thus why you hang them outside on the porch. I'm not sure if it works, but a friend of mine does this. He doesn't use sugar water, just plain ole tap water.

We have always used this trick for flies.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mwaterbags.html

http://www.google.com/search?h...&q=bag+water+flies

Good to know it'll work for flies, but since they are alrady indoors, so this isn't going to help any at all. This is for patios...

"In the past month I've been enjoying beers on the outdoor patio of various restaurants and noticed large ziplock bags filled with water hanging from the ceiling..."

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: dullard
Often there is a food source that you don't know about. Seek and distroy it.

I had that problem once. Struggled for weeks and we couldn't find the source. It ended up being a potato. The grocery store had 3 small potatos at the same price as a 10 pound bag of potatos, so we bought the 10 pound bag. We knew we could never use the potatos, but we couldn't pass up a bargain. All the potatoes looked just fine. But there was one rotten potato in the center that we couldn't see. Threw out the bag and the flies disappeared immediately. I've heard this happen with onions too.

this is a possibility as they seemed to have started hanging in the kitchen area.... but now they hang out in the dining area, living area, bathrooms and some have come upstairs!!! they also range in size, so it's definitely not the typical fruit flies

 

[azazyel]

I had a rather bad problem with fruit flies myself. Turns out there was an open bottle of champagne with only a tiny bit left in there stashed behind our recycle can. When I found it I kinda freaked because there were so many flies inside of it. Got rid of the bottle the flies went with it.

 

[ZOXXO]

Originally posted by: dullard
Often there is a food source that you don't know about. Seek and distroy it.

I had that problem once. Struggled for weeks and we couldn't find the source. It ended up being a potato. The grocery store had 3 small potatos at the same price as a 10 pound bag of potatos, so we bought the 10 pound bag. We knew we could never use the potatos, but we couldn't pass up a bargain. All the potatoes looked just fine. But there was one rotten potato in the center that we couldn't see. Threw out the bag and the flies disappeared immediately. I've heard this happen with onions too.

Yep, once went through the same ordeal when I didn't rotate the stock in the potato bin.

 

[UlricT]

hey... its just one of the side-effects of necrophilia!