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Do you have a problem with flies?

Do you have a problem with flies?

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Bodi

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We never did until the past two years... they are everywhere when the weather gets hotter... it is insane. If you ever have a problem get these fly traps

RESCUE!(R) Disposable Fly Trap

They say that they can trap 20,000 flies and I thought, yeah, right. After about two weeks I had three traps outside and each must have caught a thousand each... I would regularly do counts and as you see them piling up in the sludge at the bottom and see them going in you know that there are tons getting trapped... I would estimate that in about one month, I had four traps that combined for killing/trapping ten thousand flies. That is not counting the hundreds and hundreds that I killed with a fly swatter... I would average 150 flies each day with the swatter for three or four weeks as well as the traps.

The weather caused this outbreak/plague of flies...

Hot humid weather results in an explosion in fly population | Stuff.co.nz

It only lasts for about two months... but it is gross and sucks... during the hot weather we have to shut all windows and luckily I bought 8 fans and have them blasting from about 2 pm til nightfall.

EDIT: Oh yeah... most houses in New Zealand do not have screens. They have these outward opening windows. Idiotic. Not even the houses being built recently have screens... very very few houses do.
 
Bodhisattva said:
We never did until the past two years... they are everywhere when the weather gets hotter... it is insane. If you ever have a problem get these fly traps

RESCUE!(R) Disposable Fly Trap

They say that they can trap 20,000 flies and I thought, yeah, right. After about two weeks I had three traps outside and each must have caught a thousand each... I would regularly do counts and as you see them piling up in the sludge at the bottom and see them going in you know that there are tons getting trapped... I would estimate that in about one month, I had four traps that combined for killing/trapping ten thousand flies. That is not counting the hundreds and hundreds that I killed with a fly swatter... I would average 150 flies each day with the swatter for three or four weeks as well as the traps.

The weather caused this outbreak/plague of flies...

Hot humid weather results in an explosion in fly population | Stuff.co.nz

It only lasts for about two months... but it is gross and sucks... during the hot weather we have to shut all windows and luckily I bought 8 fans and have them blasting from about 2 pm til nightfall.
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there are several similar fly traps to the one you showed and they work very well. Another version has a plastic jar and you can merely buy more attractant/bait and use them over and over. We have 3 horses on the property and they attract biting flies so we put several fly traps up around mid may. We have dozens of barn swallows nesting in our horse barn and they really cut the population of flies and mosquitos down but if we have a warm fall, we will have several weeks of flies after the swallows migrate south and that is when the fly traps are very useful
 
Bodhisattva said:
We never did until the past two years... they are everywhere when the weather gets hotter... it is insane. If you ever have a problem get these fly traps

RESCUE!(R) Disposable Fly Trap

They say that they can trap 20,000 flies and I thought, yeah, right. After about two weeks I had three traps outside and each must have caught a thousand each... I would regularly do counts and as you see them piling up in the sludge at the bottom and see them going in you know that there are tons getting trapped... I would estimate that in about one month, I had four traps that combined for killing/trapping ten thousand flies. That is not counting the hundreds and hundreds that I killed with a fly swatter... I would average 150 flies each day with the swatter for three or four weeks as well as the traps.

The weather caused this outbreak/plague of flies...

Hot humid weather results in an explosion in fly population | Stuff.co.nz

It only lasts for about two months... but it is gross and sucks... during the hot weather we have to shut all windows and luckily I bought 8 fans and have them blasting from about 2 pm til nightfall.

EDIT: Oh yeah... most houses in New Zealand do not have screens. They have these outward opening windows. Idiotic. Not even the houses being built recently have screens... very very few houses do.
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One of the great things about living in dry, high altitudes is the lack of bugs. Very few flies up in here in Colorado, and almost no mosquitoes. Quite a difference from the Oklahoma Amazon i lived in until 1978 before coming to the magnificent Rockies. Pikes Peak is right off my back yard deck. I look across the Garden of the Gods as the landscape moves to the foothills, and then the Peak stands there with it's snow-capped awesomeness.
 
Bodhisattva said:
We never did until the past two years... they are everywhere when the weather gets hotter... it is insane. If you ever have a problem get these fly traps

RESCUE!(R) Disposable Fly Trap

They say that they can trap 20,000 flies and I thought, yeah, right. After about two weeks I had three traps outside and each must have caught a thousand each... I would regularly do counts and as you see them piling up in the sludge at the bottom and see them going in you know that there are tons getting trapped... I would estimate that in about one month, I had four traps that combined for killing/trapping ten thousand flies. That is not counting the hundreds and hundreds that I killed with a fly swatter... I would average 150 flies each day with the swatter for three or four weeks as well as the traps.

The weather caused this outbreak/plague of flies...

Hot humid weather results in an explosion in fly population | Stuff.co.nz

It only lasts for about two months... but it is gross and sucks... during the hot weather we have to shut all windows and luckily I bought 8 fans and have them blasting from about 2 pm til nightfall.

EDIT: Oh yeah... most houses in New Zealand do not have screens. They have these outward opening windows. Idiotic. Not even the houses being built recently have screens... very very few houses do.
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Hang on....word is out that "Global Warming" is killing off the insects for you.



Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' | US news | The Guardian
 
Bodhisattva said:
Huh... well, not the flies, bees, wasps, praying mantis, ladybugs, etc etc etc that I see everyday...
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if you look into the fly traps-it gets really gnarly. The trapped females lay eggs that hatch and the maggots eat the dead flies. and you can get a few cycles before they all croak or you throw the trap out. My son would put them over our pond and slice them open. The smell was brutal but within a few minutes, it looked like attack of a piranha school
 
Bodhisattva said:
We never did until the past two years... they are everywhere when the weather gets hotter... it is insane. If you ever have a problem get these fly traps

RESCUE!(R) Disposable Fly Trap

They say that they can trap 20,000 flies and I thought, yeah, right. After about two weeks I had three traps outside and each must have caught a thousand each... I would regularly do counts and as you see them piling up in the sludge at the bottom and see them going in you know that there are tons getting trapped... I would estimate that in about one month, I had four traps that combined for killing/trapping ten thousand flies. That is not counting the hundreds and hundreds that I killed with a fly swatter... I would average 150 flies each day with the swatter for three or four weeks as well as the traps.

The weather caused this outbreak/plague of flies...

Hot humid weather results in an explosion in fly population | Stuff.co.nz

It only lasts for about two months... but it is gross and sucks... during the hot weather we have to shut all windows and luckily I bought 8 fans and have them blasting from about 2 pm til nightfall.

EDIT: Oh yeah... most houses in New Zealand do not have screens. They have these outward opening windows. Idiotic. Not even the houses being built recently have screens... very very few houses do.
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Is there a reason NZ homes don't have screens?

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TurtleDude said:
there are several similar fly traps to the one you showed and they work very well. Another version has a plastic jar and you can merely buy more attractant/bait and use them over and over. We have 3 horses on the property and they attract biting flies so we put several fly traps up around mid may. We have dozens of barn swallows nesting in our horse barn and they really cut the population of flies and mosquitos down but if we have a warm fall, we will have several weeks of flies after the swallows migrate south and that is when the fly traps are very useful
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Many years ago, I lived near a horse race track. When the racing season was over the flies converged on the neighborhood. I bought a high voltage zapper. It had an ultraviolet light in it for night to attract misquotes and moths. It also had a bait tray compartment in the bottom of it where you placed peanut butter. This attracted flies during the day. It zapped them by the thousands. It might be too noisy to be around horses but it really worked.
 
TurtleDude said:
if you look into the fly traps-it gets really gnarly. The trapped females lay eggs that hatch and the maggots eat the dead flies. and you can get a few cycles before they all croak or you throw the trap out. My son would put them over our pond and slice them open. The smell was brutal but within a few minutes, it looked like attack of a piranha school
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With these traps... the flies can't figure out how to get back out. Even if they were laying eggs for more flies they just get stuck in the quagmire.
 
trouble13 said:
Is there a reason NZ homes don't have screens?

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Not sure... I have asked and nobody has given a good answer... they just say that is how it has been. I think it is because we are generally a cold country. I know that we are made out to be some tropical location but that is only true for a month or two over most of the South Island, maybe 3 to 4 months over much of the North Island and only 5 months at the very top of the North Island. It is ****ing cold, rainy and windy as **** for 5 months of the year here. No joke.
 
It depends; some years the flies can be a problem, other years don't really see many. Good screens do the job. Out in the shop I have a fan (Vornado) that really sucks them in; I have the fan covered with a fine mesh that traps them.
 
Out in my shop area (separate from the house), I use the shopVac to suck them down. After I get a decent "Load" I spray Raid down the hose. It's almost fun! :)
 
Bodhisattva said:
Not sure... I have asked and nobody has given a good answer... they just say that is how it has been. I think it is because we are generally a cold country. I know that we are made out to be some tropical location but that is only true for a month or two over most of the South Island, maybe 3 to 4 months over much of the North Island and only 5 months at the very top of the North Island. It is ****ing cold, rainy and windy as **** for 5 months of the year here. No joke.
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Ok, i am curious enough now to respond. Flies do not do well in cold climates. So you have a problem for only a few months at the most.

Some nz houses do have screens but the thing with screens is that they fit aluminium window frames. Which exist on houses built now but did not when new zealand went through its huge house building mania of the 1950's and 60's. Bugger all clay for brick making in nz but as you should know wood from trees in plenty. Hence wooden houses with wood frame windows that do not fit standard screens.

Not to mention that in the 50's it was a government initiative to build houses by the newly created branch of government called the housing corp. You might recognise that today as where all the cheap and badly built houses that accommodate the poor with subsidised rents. Not that i should complain as i live in one of those houses but now own it for myself by taking advantage of those same subsidies to get a cheap house.

However, back to your fly problem. I used a commercial pest controller who used an organic spray at the beginning of summer, once only. Worked really well, i do recommend it.
 
soylentgreen said:
Ok, i am curious enough now to respond. Flies do not do well in cold climates. So you have a problem for only a few months at the most.

Some nz houses do have screens but the thing with screens is that they fit aluminium window frames. Which exist on houses built now but did not when new zealand went through its huge house building mania of the 1950's and 60's. Bugger all clay for brick making in nz but as you should know wood from trees in plenty. Hence wooden houses with wood frame windows that do not fit standard screens.

Not to mention that in the 50's it was a government initiative to build houses by the newly created branch of government called the housing corp. You might recognise that today as where all the cheap and badly built houses that accommodate the poor with subsidised rents. Not that i should complain as i live in one of those houses but now own it for myself by taking advantage of those same subsidies to get a cheap house.

However, back to your fly problem. I used a commercial pest controller who used an organic spray at the beginning of summer, once only. Worked really well, i do recommend it.
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The problem is only for about two months... but those two months are a frickin' nightmare. I will check out the pest controller idea, thanks, although the flies are affecting many other people that I have talked to around where I live....
 
Bodhisattva said:
The problem is only for about two months... but those two months are a frickin' nightmare. I will check out the pest controller idea, thanks, although the flies are affecting many other people that I have talked to around where I live....
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Move out of epsom. :)
 
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