How to get rid of flies: how to get them out of your home naturally
Of course, unlike mosquitoes and many other insects, flies do not sting and do not cause irritation, and this is already a great advantage but despite this they can be very annoying!
- · Why are there flies in the summer?
- · Some good habits to keep the flies out
- · Basil and cloves can help against mosc
- · The most natural insecticide spray there is
- · Smart and natural tips: use water!
- · Do you want to catch flies with a trap?
Like all other summer insects, flies annoy us a lot and sometimes also because to send them away it is necessary to resort to pesticides and chemicals that can also be very harmful to our health. This is before knowing the fantastic natural remedies to get rid of them! There are summer days when flies do not give respite, due to high temperatures and sweet substances or food residues: they flutter in the kitchen, in the bedroom and in the dining room. From basil to cloves, from lemon to Neem oil or black pepper: discover repellent products you would never have thought of!
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Why are there flies in the summer?
When the temperatures are high, let's say above 25 degrees, the larvae can develop in less than 24 hours and reproduce very quickly, in fact a single fly can lay even 500 eggs in a single day! Flies are dirty insects that carry bacteria where they settle, therefore in the vicinity of ripe fruit, animal food and drinks. If there are many flies in the environment in which you find yourself, you can also try to catch them, but afterwards you will have to adopt good habits to prevent their return. By continuing to read you will discover how to keep flies away from your home with simple and practical natural remedies that are effective as repellents!
Some good habits to keep the flies out
There are many natural remedies to get rid of flies but before discovering them all, let's remember that a good rule of thumb is to take care of the hygiene and cleanliness of the different rooms of the house. Because a clean environment keeps flies away. Always close the waste bag carefully and do not keep overripe fruit in sight, very appetizing for small insects, you will see that the flies will disappear! For potatoes and onions, and for all fruit that must be stored in the open air and not in the fridge, however, the advice is to cover it carefully and make sure that the surfaces around it are always clean.
A good habit in the kitchen is to regularly clean the bins and litter bins and never leave them uncovered. Even sponges, rags and tea towels and animal bowls must be changed frequently: in humid environments, bacteria proliferate! A tip is to put a sprig of rue near fresh fruit or windows ... do this experiment and you will see that you can ward off flies: all insects will keep a safe distance!
Basil and cloves can help against mosc
Always keep some fresh basil plants on the balconies, it smells delicious but flies find it unbearable! Another smell that flies hate is that of cloves, so intense and persistent it keeps them away for days or that of fresh and pungent mint! Even lemon is annoying: keeping lemon plants or putting a little lemon essence in a diffuser is an excellent repellent and completely green solution! Another enemy? Neem oil! Mosquitoes hate oil and its oiled consistency. It is no coincidence that many repellent products, including chemical ones, have this powerful oil among their components. Other natural essences unwelcome to flies are lemongrass, lavender and geranium plants, very useful against different types of insects. Flies then hate black pepper: this spice can be very useful to keep these annoying insects away, just place bowls or glasses full of black peppercorns at each window. You will be surprised at the effectiveness!
The most natural insecticide spray there is
If you want to always have an effective solution against flies at hand, you can make a home made insecticide with natural ingredients that you certainly have in your pantry. Macerate some fresh mint leaves in white vinegar for about 10 days. Put this mixture in a spray container and always keep it ready for use, to be sprayed in the rooms when the first fly appears: this repellent is also very fragrant!
Smart and natural tips: use water!
Surprise the flies by playing in advance: put transparent bags full of water near all the windows and doors of the house. Water, just that! Here the effective solution is given by the mirror effect that scares the flies and makes them move away quickly.
Do you want to catch flies with a trap?
Our grandmothers effortlessly made a trap for flies by creating with their own hands, always and only with natural ingredients, an ecological fly paper, brushing a Michela made of water, sugar, apple vinegar and grains on a sheet of newspaper. of black pepper. The flies approach attracted by the sugary smell of food and remain imprisoned.
This solution will not make animal rights activists go crazy with joy! However, there are also traps that allow you to eliminate the problem of flies, however, by capturing the live flies and then releasing them in another place, outside your home. One way to build a kind of trap like this can be to make a plastic bag that will have banana peels in it. Flies are very attracted to the smell of this ripe fruit and will gladly enter the bag. At that point you can take them outside the house and free them! Another particularly clever advice is the so-called paper cone: a cone with a very narrow hole at the end is made with a sheet of paper to be placed in a jar with vinegar and a very ripe fruit. Obviously the rest of the container must be tightly closed: in this way flies and midges will enter the cone but will no longer be able to get out. However, their life will not be in danger: you can simply take the jar wherever you want, in the street or in the garden and eliminate the cone to free them.
And if instead the flies, mosquitoes and other insects that populate the garden are not so annoying for you but rather you find them nice, find out how to get inspired by these little colorful inhabitants of the garden for a great effect make-up!
