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Keeping flies off the porch??!!??
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. |
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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
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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.
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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.
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Thanks ladies! |
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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.
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nasty annoying little creatures!!!!!!
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oops that last one is a little huge!!!
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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.
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YES! They are annoying little creatures. They swarm our light and get in my hair lol! They are creepy!
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We get mosquitoes real bad here, hate them with a passion!
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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.
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Last year was the worst year, they swarmed so bad.
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I need to get some spray and some more of those little coil bracelets. Mosquitoes eat Colton up like crazy!
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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*
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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
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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"
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lol!!!!!!
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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.
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You dirty old lady.
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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.
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Ours stay all summer here. I don't know how to get rid of them!
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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!
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Have you tried giving them a stern talking to?
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Yes! They won't listen.
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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.
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The publix down here does it, something about them seeing their reflection and it being large?
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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!
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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? |
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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)
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Thank you Brittney! I'm definitely going to try this!
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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 :-)
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Cheeky little buggers
Ahh well, worth a try!
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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.
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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! |
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