House Flies-Get Rid of House Flies

Yuck! I do not like it when a house fly lands on me, or flies in front of me or, let us face it, when a house fly dares to enter my home!

I want to create havoc and mayhem...

But, I must face some facts

1.  Flies were not put on this earth by the devil, to torment humans and animals.

2.  Flies are not a cross to bear for real or imagined sins.

Actually flies, 'house' flies in particular, are major pollinators of most of the earth's plants.

Everyone says that bees are the major pollinators, but that is because we love to eat bee vomit, honey.

Sorry folks, flies are very important to the environment.

BUT, not in my home, office or barns.

So, how do we get rid of them, when they are where we (I) do not want them?

1.  Reduce their population, by reducing their food sources.

In other words, CLEAN YOUR HOUSE and BUILDINGS

Let your chickens roam free. Chickens can find bug larvae and the nests and will clean out the pests.

Encourage birds, of all kinds to eat the bugs, outside your home.

 Clean up and stack old lumber and your goody piles away from your buildings. Clean out from under foundation plantings, trim the bottom branches, up off the ground, at least 6 inches.

This will dry up the area and destroy a lot of bug nesting sites.

Consider a wrap around porch, with an on the ground solid concrete apron, at least 6 feet out from the house and buildings. This will stop a huge amount of bugs, since bugs generally don't travel far from their birth places. At least not voluntarily.

Use old used filtered motor oil, old used, filtered cooking oil and pour them into a garden hose mixer. You can filter the old used oils through several layers of loosely woven cloth.
No, you won't get cancer and die from using old oils to mix with water and spray your trees, shrubs, plants, building and dark creepy spaces.

But, you can get very sick if you use the commercial pesticides and bug controls.

The old oils will coat and suffocate the infant and baby bugs and block the adult bugs reproductive areas. A whole lot less bugs in just a few days!


The clean up, birds, oil sprays, and fly swatters will take care of a lot of the bugs.

Adding some apple cider vinegar to the animals watering bowls, will also help. Careful, not to much, a cup to ten galleons should do the trick.

If you need even more bug control try the bottle traps. Bugs fly in and can't get out.

These are best used away from the house and buildings and hung in the shade.

They can get stinky after awhile to try to hang them downwind of your home.

They are a lot of fun and you can trap thousands of pests in a very short period of time.


The simplest way to control house flies is to change your attitude about them, once you realize they are important to the earth, you can find simple ways of removing them from your domain.