Dueling with the Flies!

[gardenspider]

Does anyone have any idea what I can use / get to get rid of the pesty flies outside that drive people nuts?

They just swarm you when you go out.
It's a battle between who comes in and what stays out!

I saw something on TV that has a bag and some smelly stuff you put in it with water and it's suppose to attract and trap them.

Any ideas. NO sticky stuff though please.
I hate getting stuck in that stuff!~ Husband won't let me put it up anyway.

[CountryWannabe]

QuickBayt. Litle pink granules that you sprinkle around. The flies love them. Bye-bye fly...

Mary

[uncle Will in In.]

Flys hatch out of something. Eliminate that or cover it with plactic and there shouldn't be as many. Scrub the porch and walls with bleach water, and that should thin them out. Keep the outside door closed so they aren't attracted to the kitchen odors.
Put jelly on the end of your vacumn cleaner hose, and turn it on every so often. Or Not.

[wy_white_wolf]

Put some fish or chicken guts in a mayo jar. Cut a slit in the lid just big enough for the flies to crawl in and few small nail holes to let the smell out. The sharp edges pointing in keep them from climbing out. Place close to the flies and replace/clean every week or so.

[Patt]

Figure out where they are coming from and sprinkle it with DE.

[Alice In TX/MO]

We are using QuikBayt and fly predators. If we didn't have those going, I can't imagine how bad it would be. It's bad enough!

[thimblethepig]

the best way to eliminate them is premise spray ,I use fly bait sometimes too but very carefully because it will kill anything that eats it http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.h...8-888e771b573f

[ozark_jewels]

Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO

We are using QuikBayt and fly predators. If we didn't have those going, I can't imagine how bad it would be. It's bad enough!

Add to those methods fly strips changed every milking, and spraying after each evening milking and you have the situation here at the dairy. The flies this year are awful everywhere.
QuikBayt really does work well.

[gone-a-milkin]

I just accidentally discovered a good way to use quikbayt.

I had set the compost bucket out for a kid to go dump it to the chickens. It was full of watermelon rinds. Within minutes the flies were swarming it.

I took the big rounded 'bowl' watermelon peel out and sprinkled quikbayt in it. It is attracting a LOT more flies than the other places where I put plain bait. ( I took the rest of the compost to the chickens myself ).

[Pony]

I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the ones INside.

So far, the best methods are the fly swatter AND reverse psychology.

I tell people, "Don't let the flies out!" and of course the flies, being the stubborn creatures they are, make a beeline for the door and zoom away.

[gone-a-milkin]

I also notice that just holding the flyswatter gets them all to leave me alone.

[gardenspider]

Ya I think they know about the swatter thing!
We live on a farm too so covering with plastics and scrubbing isn't going to work for us.
Can't use poisons but I can put poisons up where dogs can't get to it.
Never heard of *quikbayt* so where can I get it at?
Any farm store like Orchelins?
Boy I could sure use some!
Thanks eveyone!

[Minelson]

I'm having a lot of luck with the ziplock bag filled with water and some loose change hanging in front of the door...It's working so good I'm going to add more to some of the outbuilding doors
I also use fly predators and Quickbayte strips. I have used the granuals but I'm too paranoid about them getting eaten by the chickens/goats/dogs/cats.

[pattypenny]

I have 3 plastic 1/2 gallon jugs with sweet peaches and fly crumbles called quickstrike, i bought it at the feed store . I hung one on the porch and two on my chicken pen . i also put raw hamburger in one the hamburger and sweet peachs draws the flies and they go in the jug and never come out. I hung them up so not to poison any animals.

[Backfourty,MI.]

I also use the QuickBayt strips, they are not like the sticky strips & they work Great. They also make a spray besides the strips & sprinkles.

I order mine from Jeffers Livestock catalog, www.jefferslivestock.com or there phone number is 1-800-533-3377

[gardenspider]

Well I have to ask! zip locks and loose change? silver change or pennies?
does the shinny stuff attract? Do the flies drown in the water?

PattyPenny: sweet peaches? is that juice? and what about the hamburger?
(by the way, your name caught my eye...I have a Patty and Penny, both are puppies!)

Backfourty: the flystrips can those be hung out of doors like on a porch or deck?
Those would work in the chicken coop and cow barn.

[weedlady]

Supposedly, you can fill a zip-lock bag with water, add a few pennies and hang it up by the door. This is supposed to work to keep flies away. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to do so.
Martha

[Pony]

Originally Posted by gardenspider

Ya I think they know about the swatter thing!
We live on a farm too so covering with plastics and scrubbing isn't going to work for us.
Can't use poisons but I can put poisons up where dogs can't get to it.
Never heard of *quikbayt* so where can I get it at?
Any farm store like Orchelins?
Boy I could sure use some!
Thanks eveyone!

QuikBayt is over at Orscheln. We saw it there just this past Saturday.

That stuff looks pretty scary. We were told it would work great on raccoons. But we don't want any of the other livestock to get it - VERY serious stuff.

[tamsam]

I didn't like the bags so I use a clear jar with lid and put a penny in it. That works as well as the bags. I was told that the light goes through the water and does something to the light septrum and bugs the flies so they stay away from it. Hang one on both sides of the door. Hope this helps. Sam

[gone-a-milkin]

Originally Posted by Pony

QuikBayt is over at Orscheln. We saw it there just this past Saturday.

That stuff looks pretty scary. We were told it would work great on raccoons. But we don't want any of the other livestock to get it - VERY serious stuff.

It is very toxic, but you can put it in containers that your pets cant reach.
None of my neighbors cats have touched any of it using fruit for bait. (no other critters here could reach it the way I have mine set up).