harrycatcat1 Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Last week we had stacks of flies coming in the house. So I went down to B & M bargains and brought a packet with two of these things in the picture in it. It's the Doff make. Since putting one in the living room and one in the kitchen we have had very few come in. Those that do come in seem to clear off very quick. For £2.99p it was a good investment 👌 Don't know how it works but good at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Worth knowing. Some summers we get flys coming in from the chimney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 That’s good to know. Thanks for the heads up. Surrounded by farmland we get more than our fair share of flies. We currently have a couple of fly papers dangling from various places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 The flies here are crazy today. Not blue bottles but the annoying little field flies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted July 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 (edited) To be honest I never expected them to work but bought them just to shut my Mrs up but today we have only seen one fly in the house up to yet and that took off sharpish. They must give something off that the flies don't like. Edited July 18, 2021 by harrycatcat1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Thank you. I'll look at those too. We get flies off the fields across the way and flies from the chicken farm about a half mile away. Greenbottles mostly. This year flypapers don't seem to work as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 If they work what are they doing to you? I have the purple tube fly zapper cracking away in the corner which is ok but scatters body parts over a wide area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmicblue Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, oowee said: If they work what are they doing to you? I have the purple tube fly zapper cracking away in the corner which is ok but scatters body parts over a wide area. That sounds strangely satisfying 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 I have one of the tennis racket zappers. Zap the fly then feed it to the spiders or the Venus fly trap/pitcher plant very satisfying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Ive got one of those in the garage five fly bags in the garden round the ferret and dog runs and the tennis racket zapper in the house lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 13 hours ago, redial said: Worth knowing. Some summers we get flys coming in from the chimney. Few years ago we suffered a plague of flies in the house. We traced them to emerging from the log burner, unused in Summer. I reckon there was a dead jackdaw in the chimney as we had heard a fluttering a week or so earlier. A match in the stove cured the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 Glad we’re not the only ones with this problem! Tried the window stickers, spray ( tend not too as it’s the kitchen area mainly that has the problem), citronella, electron fly swat and this contraption that arrived yesterday which is ‘pants’ Best thing so far is a £2.98 plastic fly pistol 🔫- takes me back to my youth of removing the fly swat part and replacing with a drawing pin….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Jaymo said: Best thing so far is a £2.98 plastic fly pistol 🔫- takes me back to my youth of removing the fly swat part and replacing with a drawing pin….. My granddaughter bought me a six shot wooden rubber band firing revolver. Great sport in the conservatory. We get lotsa flies because we are surrounded by a dairy farm and get slurry spreading and muck spreading right up to the garden. In fact, once he “ accidentally” spread my lawn. When I jokingly complained (we are good friends and shoot together) he sent me a bill for the muck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 I have two (had) two problems with flies. First was 'cluster flies' emerging in the spring after overwintering in the loft. Took 3 years to clear using a surface treatment called Formula C+. Used on window and other areas they congregate (e.g. around loft hatch). Kills them whilst they are trying to get out to live/breed. Problem now largely gone. Apparently - if you have them they will be annnual visitors as they leave a ferromone to mark goo hibernation places. I hope that has now after 3 years faded away. Second an ongoing visitation of houseflies, bluebottles etc. Open a door or window - and one seems to be in before you have even let go of the handle! Blue tube light thing with electrified grid works pretty well and goes with a lovely 'crack' noise a bit like a rimfire!. Hand held 'tennis racket' type electric device only stuns them. I tried uprating it with a much larger capacitor ......... which made a very small improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 The vaprona stickers in in windows, the non sticky insecticide ones, are excellent and claim many thousands of flies in my house. Also surrounded by farmland and stock. Horseflies in the garden are the ones I hate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 3 hours ago, GingerCat said: The vaprona stickers in in windows, the non sticky insecticide ones, are excellent and claim many thousands of flies in my house. Also surrounded by farmland and stock. Horseflies in the garden are the ones I hate. Horsefly got me on the bicep the other week..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 15 hours ago, Diver One said: I have one of the tennis racket zappers. Zap the fly then feed it to the spiders or the Venus fly trap/pitcher plant very satisfying Hello, me to, got it free in a Chinese supermarket, mines rechargeable , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 5 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, me to, got it free in a Chinese supermarket, mines rechargeable , I move in different circles to you, I have to put batteries in mine 😂 But I do like to give the spiders, fly tap and pitcher plant a lightly cooked breakfast now and again. Raw fly must be very boring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 19, 2021 Report Share Posted July 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Diver One said: I move in different circles to you, I have to put batteries in mine 😂 But I do like to give the spiders, fly tap and pitcher plant a lightly cooked breakfast now and again. Raw fly must be very boring Hello, yes it does fry them well, there was a big queue to get these free, my Chinese friend got other one so I bought back 2 but 1 packed up, most Chinese homes have one, not so much in uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 8 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, yes it does fry them well, there was a big queue to get these free, my Chinese friend got other one so I bought back 2 but 1 packed up, most Chinese homes have one, not so much in uk Very satisfying when you get one 'full bore' and the light is fading a bit. Lights the room up...I,think mine does a bit more than stunning them when it has a new battery in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 Just now, Diver One said: Very satisfying when you get one 'full bore' and the light is fading a bit. Lights the room up...I,think mine does a bit more than stunning them when it has a new battery in They pack a real punch if you touch the wires, 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 All the electric ones I've had seem to just push the flies away and rarely zap them. We do have a blue light thingy that gets a few but those window stickers kill them in their thousands. I saw a fly walk on 1 and 4 seconds later it was in its death throws on the window sill. Really rate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 hour ago, GingerCat said: All the electric ones I've had seem to just push the flies away and rarely zap them. We do have a blue light thingy that gets a few but those window stickers kill them in their thousands. I saw a fly walk on 1 and 4 seconds later it was in its death throws on the window sill. Really rate them. Sticky bait near the blue light and you have an active trap that realy works. Trouble with any of the bait stuff is the scent can draw them into the house to start with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreco Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 This is what you’re looking for 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildrover77 Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 I just paid 56 pounds for a bug a salt including delivery. Expensive best fun I have had in ages. buying up salt in bulk and now have repetitive strain injury. have killed two on the wing! house fly free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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