Home Remedies For Pest Control: Affordable Ways To Stop The Housefly
February 8th, 2010 Posted in Flies & Gnats
Flies are everywhere and can be really hard to catch if they make it into your home. They spread germs from the outside of your home to the inside.
The housefly is relentless at times and sometimes enough is enough. With the rough economic times of 2010 it can be hard to afford traditional control methods. Learning a few home remedies for dealing with the housefly will go along way towards ridding yourself of such a nuisance and save you money for more important things.
Why Is This Housefly In Your Home?
The housefly is mainly drawn to filth. Most of the time this is why they are entering your home. They like trash of all kinds like manure, rotting foods and vegetables, wet garbage and any other kind of decomposing organic materials for breeding and feeding.
I’m sure you don’t have these materials sitting on the ground in the middle of your kitchen, but if you have them anywhere outside your house or in your trashcans this is enough to draw in the fly. There are a few things you can do to prevent your trash and waste materials from bringing the housefly inside your home.
Empty your trash at least once a week and then also wash your outdoor trashcans out once a month with soap and water. This will help diminish the attractiveness and the smell of your trash for the housefly. In general, keeping your kitchen, bathrooms and outdoor areas clean will help to stop the housefly from targeting your home.
Affordable Home Remedies
The most affordable housefly home remedies include:
Growing Basil
By either growing basil in flower pots or vases you can naturally repel any flies that have invaded your home. The smell of basil deters flies from entering your home or garden (depending where you grow the basil). The housefly is completely disgusted by the smell of basil, which helps send them far away from your home and property. Basil can be bought cheaply at almost any grocery store or garden supply center in your area.
Wine Bottle Fly Traps
Flies are extremely attracted to Chardonnay; even an old bottle’s residue will attract the flies. By leaving an old wine bottle out in your house or backyard you can draw them into the wine bottle. Placing mango peels inside your bottle of wine will make the inside of the bottle slippery as well as hard to fly around in. The flies will get trapped inside the wine bottle and they will eventually die.
Wine & Dish Detergent
Grab a saucer (normally used for cooking) and fill it with white wine or dish detergent. Leave the saucer in an area where flies will quickly find it, either indoors or outdoors. The wine will help attract the flies in the vicinity. After drinking the wine, they will die from ingesting the poisonous dish detergent mixed in with the wine.
Brown Paper Bag Trap
This easily made fly trap will both attract and kill flies very quickly. First, boil water and the add a cup of sugar and a cup of corn syrup. After letting this concoction sit and mix together, spread it on a brown paper bag. Then leave the bag where flies will easily find it because the sugar will help entice them and the corn syrup will help trap them on the bag.
Affordable Organic Control
Everyone is feeling the economic recession hurting their wallets, but this doesn’t mean you have to put up with constant fly problems. EcoSMART’s organic bug spray is extremely affordable as well as effective. Our organic insecticides are made from natural plant oils that are harmless to everything, but insects like the fly. Pest control at home was never easier or more affordable than it is today.
Spraying harmful chemical insecticides around your home can be dangerous to your children and pets, not to mention the environment. With EcoSMART’s organic insecticides you have no worries because they are completely safe for the environment, your pets, and most importantly your children.
In these tough economic times don’t let other companies fool you with expensive chemical insecticide treatments that could possibly harm your children. Try EcoSMART’s products for affordable, safe and effective pest control.
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By peio revuelta on Feb 21, 2010
It is a really helpful information about pest control. I live in a village and pest control is very important for us,
there is also a very useful guide that i got great informatin about pest control:
http://agricultureguide.org/
By Khrystina @ Mom of 3 Dolls on Mar 9, 2010
It’s hard to keep flies out of the house when the kids are going in and out during warmer weather. Definitely hard to get rid off!
By Javier Fuentez on Apr 23, 2010
I HAVE AN OUT OF CONTROL HOUSE FLY SITUATION…THEY ARE ALL OVER THE BACK PATIO AND YARD. THIS IS GREAT INFORMATION I HAVE FOUND HERE…CANT WAIT TO TESTED OUT THE HOME REMEDIES FIRST.
By Mary Marshall on May 9, 2010
Have an Auto Immune problem, trying to go organic. Excited about trying the products!
By Deborah Johnson on May 13, 2010
I live in the country where we have lots of wild animals and our regular farm animals,so i have to be extra careful about using any kind of pest control.I have read several good idea’s,and can’t wait to try them.
By Helen Hughes on May 13, 2010
OMG…this is another great post. I am trying all of these remedies for our fly problem in CA home in Indio. Flies are so bothersome and maybe I’ll get a grip of them with these tips.
Helen
By Kas on Jun 6, 2010
I have recently been diagnosed with asthma but right before the diagnosis my husband sprayed our whole house with fly spray. I almost passed out. So I started researching fly remedies some I found were cloves, basil, mint, eucalyptus, and the homemade fly paper. I am trying cloves, basil and because I have no eucalyptus, teatree oil in vinegar. I’m also trying my version of the trap, prepackaged single serving koolaid in a gallon jug with water at the bottom and a little syrup for added fly appeal. My next step is homemade flypaper, i’ll pop back and let posters know what worked and what didn’t.
By Carrie on Jul 3, 2010
What about the wine and detergent when you have cats hanging around? Will they be attracted to it? For some reason, we have black house flies at the front door of our home~~ no debris or garbage there, but that is where they want to hang out! UGH!
By Maleah on Jul 20, 2010
I am looking for an effective fly spray to use around my chicken coop! They are driving us crazy!
By Robin Montgomery on Nov 3, 2010
Thank you for the information! I am at my wits end with the flies! I can’t use chemicals because of children and pets. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for a safe alternative!
By Leah Walker on Jan 4, 2011
Wow, I feel like I have found friends here. Lol. I am at my wit’s end as well with the fly problem we have. I thought they went away in the winter but we have them as bad as ever. It has gotten to the point that I clean constantly and will not cook or eat in my own home. The flies have taken over our house, without question. We have horses next door and a guinea pig inside the house. Can you see why we have flies so bad? I feel like screaming on a daily, hourly, basis. I can’t live like this anymore. I am going to start trying your home methods right now. I am also entering a giveaway for your products over at Mom of 3 Dolls and am super hoping to win. Thank you so much for the info.
By Nancy Frawhi on Mar 10, 2011
I can’t seem to get rid of houseflies since I have a cat & litter box in the house. I change the litter regularly and clean the litter pan, but the flies congregate and circle in the air which drives me crazy! To me, flies are disgusting and the ultimate dirty sign of an unclean house. Trying to find/use natural products and ideas because I’ve read that chemicals are not only harmful but can actually change your DNA and cause life threatening diseases.
By Dalton on Jun 15, 2011
wow!I live in Sandy Valley,NV and inside our house is FILLED with flies! we have lots of animals and we ran out of bug poison (we live far away from the nearest store) and with this stuff it helped ALOT thank you for giving us these remedy’s for flies
By Kathleen Wolverton on Jun 22, 2011
I just found this site & will try several of these remedies. Like the others who posted, I am having a terrible time with flies this year. We never had a problem in the previous years. I washed out the trash cans and moved them farther from the house in hopes of detering the pesky varmits. I can’t figure out how they are getting in though. All the doors & windows are closed & they are still coming in! Evry time I turn around there are a dozen more!! Aaarrrgghhhh!!
By Rose on Jul 19, 2011
Awesome! I have an African serval (cat the size of a large dog) so I’m super picky about toxins, along with health problems of my own. For some reason the flies congregate right outside my front door. I’ve never had much luck growing basil, but I think it’s time to try again, with a nice hanging basket. I live in an area that goes from cold moist to warm moist all year round, so flies are a constant problem. I’m going to try the paper bag trick in the cat area and go beg some wine off the neighbors!