Blooming flies

They are good for the birds?. And spiders

But they excrete as they eat.......grim! Especially on my food!!!

Same problem here Luckygirl, hazard of living in the country I guess. They leave horrible marks about the house and I am sure they bite too!!! I chase them around with a fly swatter, they are fast little b*****s tho.

A bunch of mint deters flies. As does lavender, bay, Eucalyptus - probably a few more but this was an easy bouquet to !and up.

Make rather

Rolled up Newspaper might do the trick.

You could set up a mosquito net contraption in your dining room.

I’m sorry I’m not being very sensible.

I also hate flies in the house, that’s why I never ever kill spiders are destroy any webs until they are obviously not in use.

I have a fly screen across my back door which keeps most of them out can't abide flies in the house.

Flies not so bad here but today the thunder bugs have arrived. These are tiny, thin black bugs that get in your hair and make you feel all scratchy. Does anywhere else get them or is it just rural Lincolnshire?

Red top flytraps work very well, but they stink, so not too near the house.

Yes Whitewave, more than happy to have a few spiders about the house, webs and all ???

Carpet/clothes moths are my problem.

A couple of weeks ago I purchased online one of those electric zappers with the blue light that some shops have. It`s zapped quite a few, makes a loud cracking noise every time, but hasn`t been tested against a wasp yet, hopefully won`t have to be.

I have a mesh screen on the back door. It has central opening with magnetic closure and works magnificently. Walk through and it closes behind me every time. This is its second summer and it remained up all winter/ tied back.
It looks tidy and clean. DH wasn’t so sure at first but is now a convert.
Was about £20 off Amazon.

Should add ….. no flies.

www.yorkshiretrading.com/products/strip-blind-multicoloured-door-fly-screen

Used one of these when we rented a house in the middle of a dairy farm. Works a dream and makes every entrance and exit seem like you're going on stage. Ta da!!!!

My Nan used to have one of those multi coloured striped blinds many years ago what a reminder I didn’t know you could still buy them.

My method of catching the horrible flies and bluebottles is to have my Dyson on full power and sneak up on the little blighters with the narrow attachment on the end. Gone ! Up the tube never to be seen again. Beats thrashing round the room with a rolled up newspaper smashing all the ornaments but not the fly. ?

Dyson with death !!!!

I'm in the country too, we have flies, hornets at night attracted to the light, and big spiders. So we got roller blind fly screens on most windows. I can now have windows open at night. Also a hanging metal chain on back door deters most flying insects.

We have plug ins to keep flies out and spiders

Oh yes fly screen- I have one of those, but it was actually bought to stop baby starlings blundering into the house and causing poo-ey chaos, but the knock on effect are less flies.

TrendyNannie6 I wonder if you have a name or a link to the plug-in? Thank you.

Cut a lemon in half and put stick some cloves in - seems to do something

I think with your location so near to a dung heap, you have little chance of getting rid of the flies.

Some years ago I was able to buy some of those sticky fly papers - they look a bit grim but they helped to keep the fly population down a bit.