House Flys..

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Or get cats. My cats do a great job taking care of "pests".

[OutDoorNut]

Originally Posted by The-Raven

. . . next time you paint your house, make it some other color than one that is like a cliff. Our place is green, and results in very few my parents on the other hand is grey and get invaded.

Work with nature...do not try and control it.

What happens if you paint your house bright red with big black spots?

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by OutDoorNut

What happens if you paint your house bright red with big black spots?

I bet they get scared and fly away.

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by The-Raven

Don't kill them, they are beneficial insects and do eat east coast aphids unlike what another poster said about west coast pests. The link below goes into detail. Another thing you can do is: a. wait a few weeks till they go away and live with nature, or B. next time you paint your house, make it some other color than one that is like a cliff. Our place is green, and results in very few my parents on the other hand is grey and get invaded.

Maine Farmhouse Journal Entry, Ladybug Invasion, April 1, 1999

Work with nature...do not try and control it.

I welcome them outside the house; however, my living room ceiling often looks like something out of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie on some warmer years, so I do what MW does and vacuum them off the ceiling.

This year hasn't been bad at all at my house - yet, anyway.

[Nor'Eastah]

A neighbor told me that flies lay their eggs on the underside of leaves, and the reason they get inside the house in fall is because we track the eggs inside after walking in leaves (or even grass). I don't know if this is true. There certainly doesn't seem to be any other way they get in during the fall. DW keeps an immaculate house, so I doubt if it's from leaving food, etc around.

We have not been bothered by house flies for quite awhile now. I bought some poison and spread it around the foundation some years ago, and kept all sorts of nonsense out. What also works well is leaving my "outside" boots and shoes out on the porch, and come inside in my socks till I find some slippers.

It also helps if you wash your feet once in awhile...if you're gonna walk around with your shoes off! The women say: "EEEyewww!". Good grief!

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Nor'Eastah

A neighbor told me that flies lay their eggs on the underside of leaves, and the reason they get inside the house in fall is because we track the eggs inside after walking in leaves (or even grass). I don't know if this is true. There certainly doesn't seem to be any other way they get in during the fall. DW keeps an immaculate house, so I doubt if it's from leaving food, etc around.

We have not been bothered by house flies for quite awhile now. I bought some poison and spread it around the foundation some years ago, and kept all sorts of nonsense out. What also works well is leaving my "outside" boots and shoes out on the porch, and come inside in my socks till I find some slippers.

It also helps if you wash your feet once in awhile...if you're gonna walk around with your shoes off! The women say: "EEEyewww!". Good grief!

Hmmm...maybe, but if it were true, I think I'd have spotted some maggots by now somewhere in my house since the DD and I are barefoot from ground thaw until first snow as a general rule. I don't think they could hide from me and my instruments of disinfection.

I blame the kids for leaving the doors open in the summer, or for my old house shifting and leaving tiny areas for them to squeeze in through. They go dormant when the weather is cold, but they can come to life pretty quick on a warm day like we had last week. The DS's bedroom window was full of them. Ewww...I did a lot of swatting.

In his case, we think they may have came in around the window AC unit.

[mollysmiles]

I read this thread a couple of weeks ago, and was thinking "I've seen more flies too!".... yesterday when I took it down I found the hole in the sliding door screen.

[BillieUSA]

The flies you see now are cluster flies. We have an exterminator spray the outside of the house to prevent them from getting in. They still get in, but they die. I think you must guard against infestation IN THE HOUSE. They group and hang together in clusters, that's why they are called cluster flies. We had an infestation and one night a swarm of more than one thousand flies.

[JLynn35]

Cluster flies are the worst. I thought I had regular house flies also until I posted on this board last year and learned about cluster flies. We are still trying to find where they enter our camp. Every time we arrive I have to sweep and vacuum first thing...I now leave the vacuum out and ready for our arrival. They are usually dead all over the floor, then start coming out as the camp heats up, thankfully they are slow and I can vacuum them while they sit on the window sills.

[mash potato]

Originally Posted by ClownShoes

Anyone else having a problem with house flys?

Once I burnt some chicken inside and noticed flies in the house. They only came in because of that. I shut all the lights and opened the door and shooed them out. It was lighter outside than inside so they zoomed outside, not entirely willingly, at first. Works better for bees. You can also turn off all the lights except in one room. When most of the flies are in that one room with the lights on, shut the door.