Folk remedies for flies in the apartment. Homemade fly traps

With the advent of spring, not only joyful days come, but also various unpleasant chores. For example, the constant struggle with annoying insects. Flies that start attacking your home are not only a problem in terms of aesthetics, but they are also peddlers. various diseases. In addition, insects have a psychological effect on the residents of the house.

How to get rid of flies in the apartment

Each owner tries to get rid of annoying flies as quickly as possible and prevent them from entering the apartment. The fly is dangerous insect. It is she who often becomes the cause of such terrible diseases as diphtheria, dysentery, tuberculosis and other diseases. Flies, landing on food, especially on fruits, vegetables, meat and fish, lay their larvae in large numbers. Eating a product with such a "filling", a person can become seriously ill.

Poe Therefore, experts advise to pay more attention to the preventive actions of insect control. It would be wiser than dealing with the consequences of this problem in the future.

To do this, you must always adhere to the main rule: keep your home clean at all times. We know that flies do very well in unsanitary conditions. Try to throw away food waste as often as possible. Do not forget about fresh products that you hide in the refrigerator or keep in special trays.

Be sure to constantly do in the house wet cleaning. If you have a farm, keep the areas where livestock and manure are kept clean. It is advisable to often water the manure with a solution of karphos, the smell of which the flies cannot tolerate.

With the onset of warm spring days, mosquito nets should be fitted on the windows. Near a private house, planted plants such as bird cherry, elderberry, and wormwood are good protection against flies. Indoors, insects will be repelled by home geraniums. Flies do not like the smell of all these plants.

If such preventive actions are not effective, more active insect control measures should be taken.

It has already been verified by experience that the most effective method destruction of insects in this case still remain modern chemicals. There are several such drugs that have long gained popularity among consumers. These are the well-known aerosols "Dichlorvos" and "Chlorophos". It is advisable to spray these poisonous agents in rooms with closed windows. All uninvited "guests" in the house will die. After this, the rooms in the house are well ventilated.

A new means of dealing with annoying insects is effective - a plate soaked in poisons. It is inserted into a small device and heated with a fumigator. The poisonous substance evaporates, causing the flies to die.

An old way of dealing with flies is tapes that are saturated with a sticky poisonous substance. Their scent attracts winged insects, which are trapped by sticking to the tape. There they die.

It is worth noting that all chemicals for insect control cannot be used in homes where small children and any pets live. In this case, it is better to deal with annoying insects with folk remedies.

You can expel insects from your home with ground black pepper mixed with sweetened water. The flies will fly away in 2-3 days.

Also, saccharin can kill insects. For the trap, you need to take a newspaper and soak it with a solution that includes water, honey and saccharin. Then dry the newspaper. When flies appear in the house, we put the trap in an open place and drip a few drops of water on it. Flies that are attracted to smell this composition, sit on a newspaper and soon die.

There are also many plants whose fragrance flies cannot tolerate. For example, the smell of common toadflax, which can be purchased at a pharmacy. The herb should be mixed with milk and boiled for a few minutes. Place the broth in a bowl and place it at several points in the room. This will drive annoying insects out of the house. Also, in the house you can place flowers of tansy and castor oil, which will scare away flies.

In our time, especially popular are devices that, with the help of ultrasound, very effectively repel annoying insects. In addition, they are safe compared to chemicals. Such a device emits very high sound waves. For a person they are safe, he does not even hear them. But insects that hear this sound perfectly, ultrasound is annoying. Therefore, they immediately leave the room where this appliance is installed.

Video how to get rid of flies

And another way to deal with flies is an old tried and true method: using a fly swatter. This device should definitely be in your house with the advent of warm days.

Probably, there are no people in the world who would not be familiar with these annoying creatures.

Such insects are extremely fast in flight, they are very difficult to catch on the fly. Their wings are set in motion thanks to a system of powerful muscles. thoracic trunk (thorax). Scientists have found that the wings of an ordinary housefly work with incredible speed - about 200 beats per second. Separate types These insects are able to move their wings even faster. Although those wings that are located behind (halteres) are not actually wings, they help the fly to maintain balance and do all these tricks, avoiding falling or unsteady flight. In addition, thanks to these wings, some flies are able to spin in the air in one place and fly backwards. It was found that the fastest representatives of these insects can fly with very high speed- almost 40 km / h.

Fly lifestyle

Housefly activity occurs mainly during the day. Adult representatives of this species eat various liquid substances. Them oral apparatus- licking-sucking, that is, such insects are absolutely not able to pierce human skin.

Biting flies, which are usually confused with houseflies, are stingers ( Latin name stomoxys calcitrans).

House flies are very prolific. One pair of flies is capable of producing a very large offspring. They lay their eggs (on average 80-100) wherever its larvae can feed. In her entire short life, the female is able to lay about 1000 eggs. The entire development cycle takes place in this insect in just a couple of weeks.

AT winter period house flies mysteriously disappear. The question arises: where do they come from in such colossal quantities by the summer? It's simple - they lay eggs, from which, after a day, larvae appear, which reach the stage of an adult insect in just 11 days.

Throughout its existence, the fly goes through a number of changes: from an egg, it turns into a larva, then into a pupa, and eventually an adult insect appears, which is immediately capable of producing new offspring.

Why are flies dangerous?

By the smallest count, common houseflies are the cause of 112 epidemics of infectious jaundice in the 19th century in Russia. At present, thanks to a well-developed medical field, this figure has decreased to 3-5 epidemics per year.

Diseases of the above infectious diseases occur if you eat food that is infected with flies. All diseases, if not treated, will affect the state of the gastrointestinal system. In the affected person, the liver and stomach are disrupted, he develops constipation or diarrhea (depending on the type of infection), and the temperature often rises. In very serious cases, the stomach may become covered with bloody cracks and small ulcers, and the liver may increase in size.

Folk remedies in the fight against flies

.Many people have an ordinary tomato in their garden, and it is its leaves that can help in the fight against these insects. It is not necessary to cover the entire dwelling with tomato leaves; it will be enough to put several miniature pots of tomatoes on the windows. And if you decorate them with some kind of decor, then the plants will become an unusual addition to your interior. Such a folk remedy for flies helps to make these insects fly around your home.

Another excellent remedy for flies is black elderberry and fern. AT summer period there are a huge number of such plants, so you will not have problems with how to get them. The flies can't stand themsmell . In order to scare away these insects, sprigs of fern or elderberry are laid out throughout the room, or simply put them in a vase.

.Against house flies you can prepare poison own production. To do this, mix sugar (2 teaspoons) with black ground pepper (1 teaspoon). Spread the resulting mixture into saucers, and put them around the entire perimeter of the house.

.Those who love flowers and have geraniums in their collection are incredibly lucky, because this is an excellent remedy for flies.

.These insects hate the smell of castor oil, turpentine and wax. If you wash the doors and windows with water to which you add a few drops of one of these products, the flies will be afraid to fly into your home.

The smell of plants such as eucalyptus or myrtle is also a good way to get rid of flies. And most importantly, very fast. Plant these plants in flower pots and put them on the windowsill. The house will always have at hand an excellent remedy for colds, and an excellent fly repeller.

.Homemade black pepper feeders help well against these insects. In those places where these insects live a large number of, it is necessary to pour black pepper. They will not like it, since this substance is a terrible poison for them.

A pot of castor beans is also a good fly repellant. Since these insects cannot stand the smell this plant, they will disappear from your apartment for a long time.

.If you have private house or you are in the country, then you can plant bird cherry next to the housing. Its smell is unpleasant to these creatures.

.Excellent folk remedy from flies - this is tansy. Its flowers and stems secrete special essential oils that have paralytic action about these insects

.At home, you can prepare a special solution that will act on flies as a poisonous substance. To do this, dissolve a quarter teaspoon of chlorophos in water, and add half a teaspoon of sugar. The resulting mixture is poured into

saucers and arrange around the house.

.Some say you can get rid of flies by hanging an orange or lemon stuffed with cloves.

Prevention of the appearance of flies in the house will be its timely cleaning. Food should be in places inaccessible to insects. The windows and vents of your home must be protected with a mosquito net. Then you can get rid of many annoying insects without getting them at all.

The appearance of flies in the house will please few people: these annoying insects annoy with constant buzzing and flickering, leave marks (which are not so easy to get rid of) on furniture and wallpaper, and spoil food. But all these troubles pale next to the main danger posed by flies: they endure all sorts of diseases. various diseases, including typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, salmonellosis. Individuals leave rather painful stings.

Methods for dealing with flies are different: folk remedies and the strongest poisons, poisoned baits and elementary homemade traps, ultrasonic repellers and odorous herbs. If not one fly bothers you, but a whole swarm, use the methods in a complex way.

The flies are most active in the warm season, starting from March. An adult in just a month (the life span of an insect) can lay up to 2000 larvae!

Best Methods to Get Rid of Flies

Method	Description	Note
Traps	Pour on the bottom glass jar(any volume) sugar syrup. Insert a cone folded out of paper into the neck of the container (should not touch the bottom). The simplest option from a plastic bottle Fill the jar halfway apple cider vinegar. Close the lid, after making holes in it, the size of which is large enough for the fly to get inside the trap. Smear long strips of paper or thin cardboard with very thick sugar syrup or a mixture of melted rosin (3 parts), any vegetable oil(1 part) and sugar syrup(1 part). Hang Velcro tapes in places where flies accumulate.	Having smelled an attractive smell and climbed into the jar through a narrow hole, the flies will not get out again.
		Traps with stuck insects look unaesthetic. Do not place them near heating appliances.
poisoned baits	Pour some jam, jam or sugar syrup on a saucer. Add a couple pinches of ground black pepper and mix well. Ground black pepper - a deadly poison for flies Similarly, use a mixture of water (1 cup), honey (10 grams) and saccharin (1 gram).	Both black pepper and saccharin are considered among the most effective home remedies for flies. Having tried the bait, the insect quickly dies.
natural repellers	Arrange pots with room geranium, basil, laurel, lavender, peppermint in places where flies accumulate. Use the same plants, but in dried form, as a filler for home-made flavors - cotton bags. Hang bunches of dried tansy, wormwood, fern over the windows. AT utility rooms(kitchen, pantry) lay out the bandaged fresh stems tomato. Spread cinnamon sticks on windowsills, tables, shelves. Process wooden surfaces(frames, tables) with rags soaked in essential oil cloves, eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, lemongrass. Periodically turn on the aroma lamp, filling it with one of the oils suggested above.	To ensure that the bags always smell delicious, shake the contents periodically. Change the filler at least once every two months.
		It is noteworthy that aromas that are pleasant to humans, but intolerable to flies, annoy other insects, for example, annoying midges.
Household repellers	In utility rooms (where people are not constantly), spray ordinary vodka from a spray bottle. Wash the floors with water with the addition of purified kerosene (about 50 grams per 10 liters of water). Among folk remedies for flies: turpentine, table vinegar 9%. They are also added to water for washing floors and wiping other surfaces.	Despite the fact that these methods help to quickly get rid of flies, their effect cannot be called long-term. In addition, neither people nor pets like the pungent smell.
store preparations	Sprays (aerosols) show a good result, the most popular of which is the good old Dichlorvos. Dichlorvos - a time-tested remedy Preparations for surface treatment are made at home on the basis of powders and granules that are poisonous to insects. Be sure to read the instructions and follow the dosage. One of the common poison bait recipes: mix 1 teaspoon of sugar and ½ teaspoon of chlorophos, dilute with water. Pour the poison into shallow containers (for example, saucers), arrange on the windowsills. Renew the bait after two weeks. "Crayons" are in demand because they are easy to use, but are only suitable for hard surfaces dangerous for small children and pets. Fly plates for the fumigator are considered safer. The only drawback is that one plate is enough, as a rule, not for long.	Place food in an airtight container before spraying. upholstered furniture cover with foil. People and animals in the treated room should not be! After a couple of hours, thoroughly ventilate the room, wipe all surfaces with soapy water.
		Do not turn to strong poisons if there are animals and children in the apartment! Observe safety measures: wear rubber gloves and a respirator. Use insecticides with caution in the bedroom, kitchen.
Modern appliances	Electric fly swatters and ultrasonic repellers have proven themselves well in the fight against insects.	Such devices are not cheap, but they are absolutely safe for the family.

Prevention of the appearance and reproduction of flies in an apartment (house)

1. wash in time dirty dishes without leaving for a long time in the sink.
2. Hide uneaten pet food.
3. Take out the bin regularly, do not overfill it. Dispose of strongly smelling garbage (fish peelings, meat waste) immediately.
4. Rinse buckets and tanks with water diluted by half with 9% table vinegar.
5. Store food in airtight containers, refrigerator. Bakery products- in the bakery.
6. Install on windows and doors mosquito net. For country houses special curtains are suitable, which consist of rustling ribbons that repel insects.

Perhaps there are no more annoying insects than flies.

From hibernation they come out, as a rule, in April-May and begin to actively multiply and spread various microbes that are unsafe for humans.

This article will be devoted to the question of how to get rid of flies in your home.

What is the harm from flies?

Flies are carriers of all kinds of viruses and microbes, most of which are dangerous for human body. An ordinary fly that flew in from the street and settled on food is able to leave particles affected by a huge number of viruses on them. Flies lay their eggs in the pulp or peel of vegetables and fruits, thus making them dangerous to humans and subsequently capable of causing various diseases.

The most common diseases that flies can cause are:

• dysentery;

• conjunctivitis.

Each of these diseases is very difficult to tolerate by the body, so you need to get rid of flies in your home in a timely manner.

How to get rid of flies in the apartment: mechanical methods

To mechanical methods the fight against annoying insects should include:

1) fly swatter, which is used to eliminate flies manually;

2) Velcro, which attract insects with a sweet scent. Flies sit on them, but they can no longer fly away. Velcro can be purchased at any hardware store or supermarket;

3) Fumigator. This device is very convenient in that to eliminate flies, you just need to charge it with a special plate or flask with liquid and connect it to the mains. At the same time, a person does not feel an unpleasant smell at all, and for flies it is very unpleasant and repels them. In addition, aesthetically, it looks much more attractive than the same Velcro.

To enhance the effect, it is better to use several methods at once. This will help eliminate not only flies, but also other insects, such as cockroaches or ants.

How to get rid of flies in the apartment: folk remedies

If the flies do not swarm in flocks in your room, but constantly fly in from the street through the windows, you can use one of the time-tested folk remedies. First of all, be sure to install mosquito nets on the windows, this will save you from almost all types of insects in the room. Also can be displayed on the windowsill houseplants, the smell of which is very disliked by flies. These include: geranium, myrtle, eucalyptus, seedlings from tomatoes and the like.

Also, special herbs will perfectly cope with this task: elderberry, tansy, fern leaves. All you need is to spread them around the house in a small amount.

To eliminate flies, you can also use ordinary black pepper. To do this, you need to make a mixture of sweetish water and pepper, and after a couple of days you will not find a single fly in the apartment.

These insects do not tolerate saccharin. To make a bait with it, soak ordinary newspaper with saccharin and honey dissolved in water and dry it. After the flies are so active, spread the primac on the table and drop it on it. a small amount of water. Insects that flock to the sweet smell of the newspaper will die in a couple of hours.

One of the most unpleasant odors for insects, common toadflax has (you can buy it at any pharmacy). Prepare the following recipe: take flaxseed, add it to milk and prepare a decoction from this mixture. This decoction will need to be placed in all corners of the room with flies. After a short time, annoying insects will fly away from the house. Flies also really dislike the scent of rosin, tansy flowers, and castor beans.

To get rid of uninvited guests possible through wet cleaning using special means such as DDT or Hexochlorane. These funds must be diluted in water and thoroughly wipe all surfaces in the room. Along with cold and frost, flies also really dislike drafts, so try to ventilate the apartment as often as possible.

Today it is very popular ultrasonic repellers. With their help, you can quickly and safely get rid of annoying "guests" without the use of chemicals. The principle of operation of this device is based on the use of high ultrasonic waves, which are completely harmless to humans, but at the same time they have a very strong effect on flies and other insects, forcing them to move as far as possible from the source of ultrasonic waves. This device works great indoors, but it is completely unsuitable for open areas, so it is better to use it in houses and apartments.

How to get rid of flies in the apartment: chemicals

If flies and other insects fly around the room in swarms, then here, of course, it is worth putting aside all mechanical and folk remedies and using the most powerful - chemicals. You can use the services of professionals who will come to you and make chemical treatment but you can do it on your own. We present to your attention a list of the most famous and effective chemicals and in the fight against annoying insects.

1. Aerosols. These include the good old Chlorophos and Dichlorvos. The principle of operation of these drugs is very simple - a jet of toxic substances falls on insects and instantly destroys them. To enhance the effect of aerosols against flies, you need to spray indoors, and only after a while open windows to ventilate the room. This method will significantly reduce the population of these insects.

2. Fly plates for the fumigator- one of modern means fly control. It works in this way: you need to insert a plate impregnated with the poisonous substance Vaportrin into the device. When the device is turned on, the plate at the bottom will heat up and the toxic substance will begin to evaporate, thereby destroying insects.

3. Duct tape impregnated with a poisonous substance. This method can be attributed to both mechanical and chemical means. Velcro tape is hung in a room with flies and attracts them with its smell. Insects fly to the tape, stick to it, and die after a while.

Each of these chemicals is very effective, but there is a serious drawback - they contain poison. Therefore, while working with them, children and pets should not be in the room.

Fly Prevention

Most people don't give of great importance danger posed by these insects. And completely in vain, because the fly is not only an annoying insect, it is also a carrier of the most dangerous diseases, such as diphtheria, tuberculosis, dysentery and many others. Flies lay their eggs in food, and the person who has eaten them is at risk of contracting one of these diseases. Therefore, it is much more rational and easier to carry out prevention from these insects than to deal with the consequences later. Follow a few simple guidelines and your home will be much better protected from flies and other insects.

1. Try to carry out wet cleaning as often as possible, because any insect prefers dirt and debris, and if this is not in the room, then there will be nothing for them to do here. Try to throw out the bin in a timely manner and put fresh fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator.

2. If you live in a private house and keep pets, for example, cattle, then the location of the flies may be a paddock or a place where manure is stored. Experts recommend cleaning pens with animals as often as possible, and regularly pouring a solution of karphos on manure: insects cannot stand it.

3. When flowers and trees began to bloom on the street, and spring has come, be sure to hang mosquito nets on the windows, they will become an obstacle for flies to enter the room.

4. In order for insects to fly around your house, plant bird cherry or elderberry bushes around it. Also, insects do not tolerate the smell. walnut tree or wormwood. For people living in apartments, it is recommended to put ordinary potted geraniums on all windowsills.

Do not forget that the appearance of flies, like other annoying insects, is much easier to prevent than to deal with them later. Observe these simple recommendations, and you will forever forget about such an unpleasant phenomenon as flies in the room.

Spring... What could be more beautiful! However, with the advent of the first gentle rays of the sun, all nature is reborn, and annoying, annoying flies are no exception. Especially many of these insects live in countryside. A person must understand that the proximity to flies is not only an unpleasant buzzing and tickling during sleep. Insects can be carriers of various dangerous diseases, so you need to know in wooden house.

Danger lurks on the paws of flies

Unpleasant insects are often carriers of various diseases. A fly, arriving from the street and sitting on human food, can bring any viruses and bacteria there.

Prevention of the appearance of flies in a wooden house

Many people do not understand where the flies in a wooden house come from. If they knew the basic preventive measures against the appearance of insects in housing, then this problem would not have affected them. So, how can you prevent the attack of flies in a wooden dwelling?

1. Flies just love unsanitary conditions, so they don’t like it too much clean houses. Do wet cleaning more often, put uneaten food in the refrigerator immediately, and food waste in the bin. Garbage, by the way, also does not need to be stored for a long time. Try to throw it away as quickly as possible. If you keep livestock, then often flies fly into the house from cow dung. Water the manure with a weak solution of vitriol - and the reproduction of the larvae will be stopped.
2. Protect windows and doors with insect screens - the barrier method is very effective.
3. Elder and bird cherry planted along the house will be scared away by the smell of fruit flies. The same can be said about the pot. room geranium on the windowsill. Drosophila "love" brewed tea, so don't keep old tea in a bucket for too long.

If preventive measures still didn’t save you, it’s time to read tips on how to get rid of flies in a wooden house.

Getting rid of flies with chemicals

Modern manufacturers offer customers a wide variety of means to combat house flies. Below you can find the most popular and effective ones.

• Aerosol is a very easy to use product. It is only necessary to press the button and spray a stream of poison on insects. Very often, flies are destroyed with the help of Dichlorvos. It is done like this: the chemical is generously sprayed into the room, then it is locked for an hour. After that, the hostess will only have to ventilate the room and sweep the dead flies into a scoop. Chemical manufacturers know exactly how to get rid of flies in a wooden house.
• Sticky tape is very effective in controlling flies. It's already in use long years. The essence of the work is to hang the tape at the window or in the center wooden house. Chemical composition impregnation attracts flies with a smell, they sit on the tape, but they can no longer fly away. Their paws are firmly stuck in the sticky substance! From this poison, the insect quickly dies.

• Vaporrin-impregnated plates give excellent result in the fight against flies that bred in flowers. The destruction of flies in a wooden house using this method will not harm a person, but insects will obviously have a hard time.

Chemical insect control methods give good results, but they also have a drawback. Some chemicals can harm a person (for example, breathing "Dichlorvos" is clearly useless). It is especially not recommended to use such methods in a house where small children live.

How to deal with flies in wooden houses in folk ways?

If the use of chemical products is unacceptable for you, and the flies are tired to the point of impossibility, then try to expel them with folk ways. For example, black pepper is horrible dream flies, for them it is a real poison. Place three pinches of ground black pepper in a glass of sweet water and leave it in the room. After an hour, you will only have to collect the dead insects from the bottom of the glass.

Flies in a wooden house in autumn are not uncommon guests. You can prepare a trap for them with your own hands. Just take a newspaper and soak it in sweet water. When the paper dries, it will come out extremely effective trap for annoying insects.

Extra Flies Removal

It happens that it is necessary to expel insects in as soon as possible(for example, you are waiting for important guests). In this case, you can use a less strong chemical agent.

If you don’t want to do this, but you don’t know how to deal with flies in wooden houses, do it easier. Close the windows tightly. The room needs darkness. After 15 minutes, open all the windows, doors, balcony - and the flies will rush to the light that has reappeared.

Another good option is to arrange a draft in the house. Flies do not like the wind and, most likely, will leave the room that is uncomfortable for them.

By the way, do not sweep out the spiders suddenly found in the house. The place where she lives worst enemy, the fly will avoid!

Well, the last method without the involvement of chemicals is the usual fly swatter, which is also used very often in our time.

How to get rid of flies in a wooden house using ultrasound?

Currently, very often used to get rid of flies ultrasonic devices. They are effective and do not contain any chemicals. You will get rid of flies quickly and safely. High sound waves, which a person does not even hear (they are, of course, safe for our ear), are detrimental to insects. This high-pitched sound is too unpleasant for flies, having heard it, they immediately fly away as far as possible from the source. Ultrasound will not work in the open air, but will perfectly cope with the task in a wooden house.

Now you know how to quickly and effectively get rid of flies that bring dirt and disease into our home. Keep annoying insects out of your cozy home!