Keeping flies off the porch??!!??

[Nikki Epperson]

I did Google it, but I wanted to see if my friends here have any suggestions.

I've been sitting on the porch a lot in the mornings while the kids play and the flies are just terrible!!!

Do you have any methods you've used that worked to keep flies away?

I don't have food on the porch, but we do bring drinks outside so we're not running in and out.

[cbettua]

We once bought these fly traps and attached one of them to a tree. It did the trick, but I must warn you, it gets full quick and its revolting. Hundreds of dead rancid flies in a bag. It was so disgusting.
They looked like this

[Darcy Baldwin]

We use a bug zapper. We can't sit on our front porch because it's not built that way - but it's dead space, so the flies LOVE to be there, and then get right into the house every time we open the door. It's the only way we can do it. It might be hick..but it keeps our house free of flies, which we care more about lol.

[jessica31876]

IDK our drinks tend to attract bees more then flies. We generally dont have an issue with flies. When we do I just use fly strips where the flies land on it and they are stuck.

[Nikki Epperson]

Originally Posted by Darcy Baldwin

We use a bug zapper. We can't sit on our front porch because it's not built that way - but it's dead space, so the flies LOVE to be there, and then get right into the house every time we open the door. It's the only way we can do it. It might be hick..but it keeps our house free of flies, which we care more about lol.

I didn't know bug zappers help with flies. We have horrible june bugs. I mean, horrible. They are HUGE, NASTY bugs! We were talking about getting a bug zapper for that anyway.

Thanks ladies!

[jessica31876]

ok I have to know what are june bugs? The worst that we get here are deer flies (yellow flies) they tend to bite on your lower half of you body and I am allergic to them.

[Nikki Epperson]

nasty annoying little creatures!!!!!!

[Nikki Epperson]

oops that last one is a little huge!!!

[jessica31876]

Oh yea I think I have seen them here. At least something similar anyhow. They fly around our light at night and fly in the house when we open the door.

[Nikki Epperson]

YES! They are annoying little creatures. They swarm our light and get in my hair lol! They are creepy!

[cbettua]

We get mosquitoes real bad here, hate them with a passion!

[cardinalskate]

Yep, mosquitoes are our worst problem. They are pretty much the sole reason we don't go outside to play more often. My daughter and I absolutely get eaten alive, while my husband has no problems with them. Hmph.

[cbettua]

Originally Posted by cardinalskate

Yep, mosquitoes are our worst problem. They are pretty much the sole reason we don't go outside to play more often. My daughter and I absolutely get eaten alive, while my husband has no problems with them. Hmph.

Yeah, starting about now we can no longer go outside. Me and my son get eaten up and my husband doesn't either.

Last year was the worst year, they swarmed so bad.

[Nikki Epperson]

I need to get some spray and some more of those little coil bracelets. Mosquitoes eat Colton up like crazy!

[glumirk]

Dude, I'm shuddering from those pics and all this talk of bugs. GET THEM AWAY!!!

Um..sorry about that. Good luck with your fly problem! We've got spiders everywhere. *shudder*

[jessica31876]

Oh my gosh the mosquitos have been bad this year. It is especially bad because we have a drainage ditch that is huge and until it dries out it is just standing water. Lots of water moccasins and mosquitos

[tanyiadeskins]

ok...I think I have been looking at the eye candy thread too long! I was quickly scanning the post titles of new posts and for this one I read "Keeping files of porn"

[Nikki Epperson]

Originally Posted by tanyiadeskins

ok...I think I have been looking at the eye candy thread too long! I was quickly scanning the post titles of new posts and for this one I read "Keeping files of porn"

lol!!!!!!

[Milmomma]

Nikki we just moved to OK and those nasty things are every where. How do you get rid of them??? They try to run into my garage when we pull in. They creep me out too.

[Darcy Baldwin]

Brittney they'll be gone in a matter of weeks. They really are here mostly in the late spring/early summer.

[cardinalskate]

Originally Posted by tanyiadeskins

ok...I think I have been looking at the eye candy thread too long! I was quickly scanning the post titles of new posts and for this one I read "Keeping files of porn"

You dirty old lady.

[Milmomma]

Originally Posted by Darcy Baldwin

Brittney they'll be gone in a matter of weeks. They really are here mostly in the late spring/early summer.

Oh thank goodness. I was debating on buying some lawn bug spray stuff to see if that would help this weekend! They make me squirm and squee.

[Nikki Epperson]

Ours stay all summer here. I don't know how to get rid of them!

[Joana1n]

There's a Mexican food restaurant here that has a large porch, and they have plastic bags filled with water and a penny or two hanging from the beams. Apparently it works. It's cheap, anyway!

[tanyiadeskins]

Originally Posted by cardinalskate

You dirty old lady.

hey! ... i am NOT old!

[FearlessLeap]

Have you tried giving them a stern talking to?

[Nikki Epperson]

Originally Posted by FearlessLeap

Have you tried giving them a stern talking to?

Yes! They won't listen.

[cardinalskate]

Originally Posted by FearlessLeap

Have you tried giving them a stern talking to?

Heehee. If only that would work!

[caliten]

in attracting bugs, bug zappers also draw in things that want to eat those bugs, and things that want to eat the things that want to eat the bugs....like snakes....so you might want to reconsider putting one near where you like to sit or where your kids play. We have those nasty June bugs here to, and I just removed scorpion #8 (of 2012) from the wall this morning. Ugh.

[cbettua]

Originally Posted by tx-nana-scraps

Just what I was going to suggest. We were at a friend's house at a lake and they have a covered dock so they hung plastic bags up and no flies were we were sitting. It really works.

The publix down here does it, something about them seeing their reflection and it being large?

[Arual]

Originally Posted by Joana1n

There's a Mexican food restaurant here that has a large porch, and they have plastic bags filled with water and a penny or two hanging from the beams. Apparently it works. It's cheap, anyway!

This is what we do when we are out with our motorhome. I hang them around awning so they aren't in the covered area and I hang one in the door way as well so they don't come inside the RV. Works like a charm for us!

[Darcy Baldwin]

Originally Posted by caliten

in attracting bugs, bug zappers also draw in things that want to eat those bugs, and things that want to eat the things that want to eat the bugs....like snakes....so you might want to reconsider putting one near where you like to sit or where your kids play. We have those nasty June bugs here to, and I just removed scorpion #8 (of 2012) from the wall this morning. Ugh.

We've never, ever had that issue in the years we've had one nor in the years I grew up with it.

[Freckles]

We also have a lot of flies on our porch. The plastic bags sound interesting! I've never seen it though, and I can't quite picture it...
Are these just regular plastic shopping bags? Haw do you hang them?

[Milmomma]

Kim when I searched I found this... I'm gonna try it for our back porch if I can figure out where to hook them too. (the pic is linked with instructions)

[Freckles]

Thank you Brittney! I'm definitely going to try this!

[Arual]

Originally Posted by Milmomma

Kim when I searched I found this... I'm gonna try it for our back porch if I can figure out where to hook them too. (the pic is linked with instructions)

Duct tape will help you as well if you cant find places on the patio to hook them onto. We use duct tape all the time to hang ours up.. just a small piece at the end of the string and slap that thing onto wherever and call it done :-)

[FearlessLeap]

Originally Posted by Nikki Epperson

Yes! They won't listen.

Cheeky little buggers

Ahh well, worth a try!

[sigmakap95]

we have major fly problems and my husband went to a feed store and found some sort of spray for animals (because our dog was attracting them) and it works great - keeps the flies off him and the patio..... not sure if that helps but i HATE flies and i freak out when they come in so ill try anything.

[Freckles]

Originally Posted by Milmomma

Kim when I searched I found this... I'm gonna try it for our back porch if I can figure out where to hook them too. (the pic is linked with instructions)

So has anyone had any luck with these?
I tried it. First with one bag, wasn't helping.
Then I hung up 6 of those bags, still not helping. The flies just go sit on those bags, go figure! And everyone who visits keeps making fun of us, lol, it's quite the view with all those bags hanging on the ceiling of our porch!