Top 6 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Houseflies

Top 6 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Houseflies

Did you know that a single house fly can carry about a million bacteria on their tiny body hair called tarsi! They get these bacteria from all the contaminated places where they go and sit such as fecal matter, garbage disposal sites, rotten foods etc. They won’t and don’t need to bite you to transmit these bacteria to your body. They will just sit on the open foods that lie on your kitchen slab or on the dining table and leave the bacteria in these foods. When you eat these food, your body gets all the nasty bacteria to make you ill with such diseases as dysentery, typhoid, diarrhea, and cholera. The best way to keep yourself and your family safe against these diseases is to keep your house clean and foods covered. Decaying organic filth like feces and rotting foods, meat etc. are what attract house flies. Fruit flies and drain flies too are a menace. Fruit flies are attracted by sugary things like overripe fruit, spilled soda, alcohol etc. Drain flies seek moist climates and organic materials and as the name suggests they get attracted to drains where they lay their eggs. Therefore, keeping your house, drains etc. clean and dry (as far as possible) as well as proper storing and taking care of your foods are a per-requisite to get rid of flies. Beyond that, there are many natural home remedies to get rid of flies.

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How to Get Rid of Housefiles

1. Make Flypaper Strips at Home to Catch Flies
The market is flooded with flypapers, sometimes also called fly ribbons, a pest control device. These are made of paper coated with a fragrant, sticky and often poisonous substance which traps flies and other flying insects. The poisonous substance used in these flypapers can be toxic to humans and animals too. So why not use homemade fly papers! They are easy to make and work as efficiently as the commercially available flypapers.
Get this:
Corn syrup- ½ cup
Sugar- ¼ cup
Paper, brown paper or thin cards
Scissors
Thread
Do this:
Cut 2 inch wide strips from the paper or card. Punch a hoe or two at the top of each strip and thread it to make a loop to hang at the places where flies come.
Mix the corn syrup and sugar.
Coat one side of each strip with the corn-sugar syrup. If the syrup drips, place a bowl underneath the hanging paper.
Now hang these strips where you see the flies most. They’ll get attracted to the sugary syrup and when they land on these strips, they’ll get stuck to it.

2. Limit the Food Sources
All insects, including houseflies, need a source of food to thrive and breed. Hence, limiting their food sources is one of the most effective methods for controlling their growth.
Do not allow any kind of manure, garbage, grass clippings, weed piles or other decaying organic matter to accumulate in your yard or garden area.
Use well-sealing garbage receptacles to prevent houseflies from looking there for food.
Keep trash cans clean.
Dry out maggoty garbage or dispose of it in fly-proof containers.
Do not keep rotting food out in the open in your kitchen.
Keep sinks and kitchen counters clean.
Clean up pet waste immediately.

3. Use Plastic Water Bags to Keep Away Flies
This is rather interesting and a very effective way to get rid of flies. You just need to have a clear plastic bag filled with water. When you hang this bag at your outdoor entrances, flies will not be able to enter your house. There are at least two reasons explained for this remedy which seems to be beyond logic. One is that the flies are not able to see the water bag as a water bag. Due to their structure of eyes, clear water filled bags are seen as something resembling a spider’s web by the flies. As such, they don’t come near such thing. The other reason states that the reflection of water is enough to disorient the flies and to create some unexplainable illusion to them. You may also see fruit stand with water bags hanging on their stalls. They do it to keep the flies off their fruits shop.
Get this:
Clear plastic bag (gallon size)- 1
Water
Do this:
Fill the plastic bag with water. Keep it halfway full with water.
Tie a knot at the mouth of the bag to secure it properly. You may also use a thread or a rubber band for the purpose.
Now just hang this water filled plastic bags near your entryways, garage doors or any other such outdoor entrances.

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4. Close Off the Entry Points
For houseflies to enter your home, there must be some entry points. To prevent them from getting indoors, you must seal them off.
Use window and door screens. Make sure the screens are tight-fitting without holes.
Keep doors and windows closed, and seal any openings at the top or bottom.
Seal the openings around water or gas pipes.
Use screens on ventilation holes, too.

5. Try Apple Cider Vinegar to Trap Fruit Flies
This home remedy is particularly good for eliminating fruit flies because they get attracted to smell of anything which ferments. Apple cider vinegar is made by fermenting apples and thus flies can’t resist its smell, especially when you heat it up a little. Heating up the vinegar release ore smell.
Make a fly Trap with Apple Cider Vinegar
Get this:
Apple cider vinegar- ½ cup
Glass jar (with or without lid)- 1
Funnel or paper to make one (if using jar without a lid)- 1
Do this:
Heat the apple cider vinegar. You can do this by using microwave oven or heat it in a pan over your gas burner.
If using a jar with lid, make some holes on its lid, big enough to let the flies enter the jar.
If you don’t want to destroy the lid, you may also use a funnel. If you can’t find one, make a funnel with paper by folding and stapling it in the shape of a cone leaving a hole at the narrow end.
Now fill the jar with heated cider vinegar and place the lid with holes over it.
If using funnel, place the funnel on the mouth of the jar with narrow side inside the jar.
Now place the jar where flies are seen most of the times.
Let it be there for a day. Flies will get attracted to the smell of vinegar and enter the jar through the holes. Once inside, they get trapped. Flies can’t figure it out that they can even fly out from the same hole that worked as their entrance.

6. Plastic Bottle Fly Trap
Plastic bottle fly trap is an easy to make trap for houseflies. It is effeceint and can be re-used as and when needed.

The flies get attracted due to the scent of the bait. They flow down the funnel but cannot fly back up. Eventually, they get trapped in the water and drown.

Cut the top off a plastic bottle (like a cold drink bottle).
Place some bait at the bottom and water to it so the flies don’t escape. You could use a piece of meat, minced fish, rotten fruit, honey, or just some sugar as bait.
Put the top of the bottle upside down on the bottle (like a funnel).
Place your plastic bottle fly trap in areas where flies frequent. It works both indoors and outdoors.
Let the bait sit for about a week, then replace it as it may start smelling bad.