After writing, how to get rid of bed bugs?, how to get rid of cockroaches?, how to get rid of wasps?, and how to get rid of fleas?, we are now writing the best ways to get rid of flies fast. In today’s world, people can’t wait to get results. They need quick results. Flies are carriers of harmful bacteria’s and viruses, which they transmit from one location to another. If you want to know more about flies and ways to get rid of flies fast and naturally, then keep on reading the this article.
The first thing which comes to our mind about flies is its ugly look and its sitting on garbage. Flies are attracted to foul odor coming from garbage heaps, open drains. Flies have a pipe in their mouth through which it sucks the food into its mouth especially the liquid juices. They are carriers of germs and bacteria which, causes harmful diseases.
Types of Flies:
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- House Flies: These are the most common flies. They generally feed on garbage and waste food in your dustbins and garbage heaps around your surroundings.
- Fruit Flies: They feed normally on decomposing fruits and food for pets.
- Moth: These flies are found in open drains and sewers. They breed on stagnated water, which is not cleaned from the past few days.
- Flesh Flies: These flies can be easily seen on animal waste, animal bodies. They generally lay eggs on decomposing dead bodies.
- Blow Flies: These flies are found in moist environments, wet garbage heaps and long shrubs.
How Diseases are Spread by Flies?
This is important to know before getting rid of flies naturally. Flies are attracted to garbage heaps, open drains, decaying dead plants and animal bodies. These garbage heaps and drains are the host of germs and viruses. Flies when eat food the germs and pathogens stick to flies mouth. When they reached to your food the germs and bacteria are released over there. This contaminated food makes you infected and cause serious health issues.
Diseases Spread by Flies:
Dysentery: This disease occurs when contaminated food is eaten. In this, disease the intestine gets inflamed and blood comes with stool. Muscular pain and cramps in the stomach is a common symptom of this disease. Loss of body fluids also happens which is fatal.
Salmonella: This disease happens more in children than adults. The symptoms of this disease appear later after getting infected. The common symptoms are fever, stomach pain. It is considered as a kind of food poisoning.
Leprosy: This disease rarely happens, but cannot be ignored. In this disease virus attacks the nervous system and skin cells. This disease virus normally stays for 2-5 years in the infected person’s body. After effects of this disease are body pain, bleeding from nose, change in body parts.
Conjunctivitis: It is the infection of eyes. Red and watery eyes are symptoms of conjunctivitis. It is a communicable disease and most common in children.
Fever: The Body will be paining, the temperature will be high these are the symptoms. Fever is the most common disease spread by flies. Take medical treatment as early as possible as it is fatal sometimes.
Methods to Get Rid of Flies Fast and Naturally:
1.) Use The Lavender Oil
Lavender oil is a natural product easily available in the market. Lavender oil releases odour, which is an insect repellent. You can use it in your home and in your lawn also. Take a spray bottle, pour some lavender oil in it and spray all around the corners of the house. This is also used as an insect repellent for the mosquitoes and moths.
2.) Eucalyptus Oil Will Help
Its strong odour is a repellent for the flies and other insects. This is useful for humans as it also has medicinal properties also. In toothpaste and mouthwash it is a popular ingredient. Pour a few drops of eucalyptus oil on a strip of cloth and cotton and hang it on the entrances of your house. Try to cover all gaps and holes of your house with this cloth only.
3.) Use The Herbal Plants
Herbal plants are beneficial to us in both ways health wise and to keep away the flies from our house. In your garden grow some herbal plants like peppermint and basil they are very good insect repellent. The Growing of plants is a very long procedure, but it is beneficial once it is grown. These herbal plants helps in stomach, skin as well as hair disorders.
4.) Make The Honey Trap
Honey is used for centuries as a medicinal product. Honey has healing powers and the capability to increase the immunity as well. But you can create traps for flies to get rid of them naturally. Pour some honey on a plate and spread it all over. Honey is sweet and sticky will attract the flies. The flies will get stuck on to the plate and get suffocated. Fruit paste can also be used for the trap.
5.) Use The Camphor Oil
This waxy substance has a very strong odor which is an insect repellent. Place the camphor in warm place and light it up. The smoke and odor released after burning keep away the flies. Camphor is highly inflammable take some necessary precautions while burning. The smoke of camphor is also poisonous use it carefully.
6.) Milk-Sugar Solution
Milk and sugar are the natural product easily available in your house. From the combination of these you can make a trap for flies. There is a simple procedure for this just boil some sugar with milk. Let the mixture cool down spread the mixture on shallow plate. Place the plates in locations where flies come most of the time. Flies will get stuck to the mixture and get drowned.
7.) Clove Will Help
Its odour is not liked by the flies and is an easy way to get rid of flies naturally. Clove releases a pleasant odour for us, but not liked by the flies. Pluck two or three clove in an apple and place it in your kitchen. The odour released by the combination of apple and clove will keep the flies from entering your kitchen and spreading the disease.
8.) Keep Surroundings Clean
Clean surroundings are the most important way to stay healthy. Flies are attracted towards garbage heaps, open dustbins, uncovered drains, stagnated water. If you take care of your surroundings, naturally you are free from infections and diseases. Flies breed on open dustbins and stagnated water and if you clean them regularly, flies growth will not be there at all.
9.) Clean Your Garden
Plants have moisture in their leaves and pores where water gets stagnated. Flies loves to stay in long shrubs and leaf pile in your garden. Clean your garden and cut the shrubs at regular intervals so that they do not breed and spread diseases. You can spray pesticides in your garden to kill the flies.
10.) Fly Glue Traps
Fly glue traps works of sticky substance, which causes the fly to stick at it and killed after some time. Fly glue traps is made of yellow tape on which sticky substance is spread, yellow color attracts the flies and they are trapped. We can make this glue trap at our home also just take a yellow hard paper pour some corn starch with water and spread all over it. This combination makes a sticky substance which will attract the flies and would kill them.
11.) Lemon Grass Sprays
Its refreshing aroma will make your home refreshing whole day. Flies don’t like its aroma. The Lemon grass spray is easily available in the market. The other method to use it is crush few lemon grass and mix it with hot water. Pour the mixture in a spray bottle, now spray all along your house and enter points. The flies will remain out of your house.
12.) Use Flypaper Strips
These are easily available in the market. But, you can make Flypaper Strips at home also. The paper used in this is coated with a chemical that is poisonous . The home made are not poisonous they contain corn starch and sugar. Cut a piece of paper 3 inch wide. Punch a hole at one end and tie with a thread. Apply the mixture of sugar and cornstarch on paper. Hang the paper on different places in your home where flies are mostly seen. Flies will get attracted to syrup and stuck to it.
13.) Switch On Fan
This method is the easiest of all remedies to get rid of flies fast. Just switch on the fan and flies will be blown in seconds. This method is not sufficient because after sometime flies will come back again when the fan is switched off. This method can be used easily by anyone whether it is a kid or an adult.
14.) Cayenne Pepper Powder
Pepper has been in use for centuries as an insect repellent and as a medicinal product. Where there is pepper powder the flies will not be there. The odour released by pepper is not liked by flies and they keep a distance from it. You have to mix pepper powder with water to a solution. Spray the mixture in your house and near windows so that flies don’t enter into your home.
15.) Electric Fly Killer
The ultraviolet rays attract flies and other insects also. This weakness is our strength to kill them. The electric fly killer consists of rod, which produce a high voltage current. These are easily available in the electronic shops. They should be placed or installed at a location which is closed to entrance of your house. It is an electronic substance, make sure kids don’t come close to it. Always install it on some height to attract flies.
16.) Close Your House Entries
Prevention is better than cure. This is also applicable with flies. If you don’t allow them to enter your house, then there is no need to get rid of them. But this is impossible kind of stuff, but almost possible. Cover all your entries and close all your doors and windows. In this manner you can stop more than 75 percent of flies to enter your house. You can install net on the doors and window frames to stop the entrance of flies and other insects.
17.) Don’t Throw Garbage
Keep your surroundings clean. Flies are attracted towards heaps of garbage, open drains, stagnated water. Cleanliness is the best method to be away of diseases and flies. Keep garbage containers and bags closed tightly. If you have dogs in your home and if they litter in your garden, try to stop them from doing this. These garbage bins and stagnated water are the biggest source of flies and other insects to breed. Clean them at regular intervals.
18.) Hair Spray Will Help
Yes, you are right to read this. Hair spray can also be used to get rid of flies fast, the reason for this is hair spray contains chemicals which are sticky in nature. When they are sprayed on the flies the wings get attached to each other due to sticky substance and they can’t make an escape. The chemicals in hair spray are highly inflammable take necessary precautions before using them like not closed to open flame.
19.) Insecticides to Get Rid of Flies
These are chemicals which are poisonous and highly inflammable. Take necessary precautions before using them. They are easily available in the market and have long lasting effect. They can also kill the eggs and larvae of the flies, so that they do not grow up. Just spray the insecticide on the flies and areas where they generally roam and they will be killed in seconds.
20.) Boric Acid to Get Rid of Flies
This method, which is to be used with proper precautions. Keep your face covered with a mask and wear gloves. Boric acid is highly poisonous and it is not the best way to get rid of flies but if you are fed up with them then this is also an option. Put boric acid on places where flies sit mostly. Don’t put near to food items as it is highly poisonous.
21.) Home Made Flies Repellent
Insecticides kill the flies instantly, but they can be dangerous for children and contain harmful chemicals. Insecticides or fly repellents can be made at home easily using natural herbs oil. There are different herbs available in the market easily these are lavender, basil, mint or camphor. Take any of the one you like crush the herb, take the extract mix it with water. Pour the mixture into spray bottle your home made repellent is ready.
22.) Use Apple Cider Vinegar
Flies like the smell of fermented fruits. Vinegar is made from fermentation of fruits and grains. But, apple vinegar is not liked by flies they can’t accept its smell. Heating of apple vinegar release a bad odor. Take a glass jar, pour some hot vinegar, seal the lid and made some hole in the lid. The smell released by the vinegar keeps away the flies.
23.) Make Wine Traps
This is not accepted by wine lovers as there is some wastage of wine in this. But, to get rid of flies fast, you have to take some bold decision. Flies like the smell which is fermented, wine is a good example of fermentation. Take a soap solution and wine in a glass and place them where the flies are seen regularly. Flies are attracted to the smell of wine, but they will not be able to escape from the solution.
24.) Lemon Grass Sprays
Its refreshing aroma will make your home refreshing whole day. Flies don’t like its aroma. The Lemon grass spray is easily available in the market. The other method to use it is crush few lemon grass and mix it with hot water. Pour the mixture in a spray bottle, now spray all along your house and enter points. The flies will remain out of your house.