Flies
Submitted by Bodie on Thu, 2014-10-16 15:54
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the amount of flies around at the moment now that the weather has started to warm up?
Wondering what people do around at home to control them?
I've got about 6 of the fly catches up which are filling up every 3 or 4 days and there are still millions hanging around.
Anyone else have any other ideas? Any slow release scent solutions that seem to keep them away?
Bodie
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Hmmm
Yep nah this is defiantly still australia haha sucks working outside with them
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Ha ha maybe have a shower
Ha ha maybe have a shower :P
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D_d_001
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those fly attracters/catchers
those fly attracters/catchers you are talking about work great.
my neighbour has them all around his house and there is not a fly to be seen at our place !!!
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maybe just maybe
maybe just maybe , if the Barnett government hadn't knocked the dung beetle program on the head we wouldn't be having the fly problem to the extent we have
Dale
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Dungies.
We used to get the dungies come around January back in Busso and it was amazing how much the flies dropped away then, so I've got no doubt they work.
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your right
we had them up in karratha and they would turn a large dog terd into a pile of dust in 20 minutes
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As Dd pointed out
As Dd pointed out attractants do just that lol .. chicken and horsey people use crushed garlic around the place , it works though you may have to redecorate to a more italian theme . Fans blowing keep them away eg : if your sitting outside having a barbie.
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When we have summer bbqs I
When we have summer bbqs I just invite the Indian neighbour over and make him stand in the corner of the yard, keeps the flys off everyone else......
Heard about them bag of water and tin foil trick?
Fly traps attract flys, hmmmmmmm
But seriously, I bought some shooaways last summer and they work a treat on the table keepin flys off the food, take em campinmg and have one on the filleting table whilst prepping my catch etc. But the best thing I ever did was hang a ceiling fan up in my alfresco. Wont find a fly under that when its on
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Tried and true method
The best way to stop flies walking over your face while working is to cut a hole in the back of your dacks.
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Oh crap....
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Come up to Leeman
the blow flies will carry you away, bloody bombers up here, been like that for the last 2months, flies not too bad a problem just the blowies. Everybody is complaining about the fat blowies.
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I use a 2 litre drink plastic
I use a 2 litre drink plastic bottle (coke etc). Cut the spout off where the bottle shape start. Invert that so that the opening forms a funnel and shove that back into the other half off the "cut" bottle. Fill with some water about a third to half full. Add a piece off offcut meat, or if you realy want a stink a mulie cube. Place this away from the house in the garden and you have a great cheap flytrap. They fly in, get trapped by the funnel shape, fall in the water and drown. After a week or so you have the juck job of emptying it. Pongs a bit so I dig a hole near a good plant and poor the mixture of rotten stuff and dead flies in it, and start again.
Seem to drag the flies away from the house and kills by the 1000's.
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they were everywhere at mt
they were everywhere at mt magnet specially wen ur skinning goats in 35degrees heat. wat a battle!