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My kids have been playing in the backyard lately, and every time they go in or out, more flies get in. The fucking house is infested with flies! AAARRRGGHHH!!!!

Get some hair spray and flamethrower em.

darthdavid wrote:Get some hair spray and flamethrower em.

Thats what i do every winter when paper wasps infest my house! BURN!!!!

Do what Lobo did in Superman, he saw a Mesquito and shot a shotgun at it, it will certainly take care of the flies.

OK, this is going to sound crazy, but I've heard that if you hang large plastic bags (like trash bags), with a fair amount of water in them, by your doors, flys will stay away. I know several people that swear by it, but I have never tried it myself. I can't think of any rational reason why this work either, unless water + sunlight + plastictrashbags gives off some odor that's offensive to flys. (which would amaze me, flys liking shit and all)

Just thought I'd pass that on.

And it could be worse. We have a terrible chigger problem here this summer, can't go out in the damn yard without long pants on, which sucks when it's hot like today, 99F, heat index 111F. (that's about 40C for you metrics)

darthdavid wrote:Get some hair spray and flamethrower em.

What, the flies, or the kids?

theres around 30 in my kitchen at any given point.

waking up with a fly in your long hair is unpleasant.

Huh, we haven't had many problems with flies here.

they are trying to eat my cat.

[Still suprised that he hasn't been verbally castrated by Wong for that flamethrower comment.]

We've got tons of these fucking things in our house. Apparantly these little traps take care of most of them, you take a glass jar, put a little vinegar in it, then roll a piece of notebook paper into a cone like a funnel and put it in the jar.

Darth Wong wrote:My kids have been playing in the backyard lately, and every time they go in or out, more flies get in. The fucking house is infested with flies! AAARRRGGHHH!!!!

Ever since my junket to Kuwait years ago (and likely again in the future), I've had more than my fill of flies. You would think that since the desert is so dry, flies would not be so innumerable, but they are. The floor of my track was so littered with dead flies that is was black with their guts, and one was guaranteed to eat one to five of the critters a day while attempting to eat MRE's or "A"s.

Did I mention that I hate flies?

Go get some dragonflies...

Drewcifer wrote:OK, this is going to sound crazy, but I've heard that if you hang large plastic bags (like trash bags), with a fair amount of water in them, by your doors, flys will stay away. I know several people that swear by it, but I have never tried it myself. I can't think of any rational reason why this work either, unless water + sunlight + plastictrashbags gives off some odor that's offensive to flys. (which would amaze me, flys liking shit and all)

Just thought I'd pass that on.

I have heard that too, and I have seen Restaurants using this "tactic", it works quit well. If anybody knows the answer please share your wisdom with the less enlightend.

Heh, over hear I'm having a Mosquito problem...

I got assaulted by a big swarm of flies when walking the dog the other day. The bastards were irritating the hell out of me, so I randomly clapped my hands together a couple of times and, by chance, smashed one of them into so much pulp. I can only assume that they give off some kind of distress pheromone when you do that, as the entire swarm of the buggers flew off and stayed the hell away for the rest of the walk.

Darth Wong wrote:My kids have been playing in the backyard lately, and every time they go in or out, more flies get in. The fucking house is infested with flies! AAARRRGGHHH!!!!

It's freezing over here. Flies cannot stand in Australian winter. Bwhahahahah.

victorhadin wrote:I got assaulted by a big swarm of flies when walking the dog the other day. The bastards were irritating the hell out of me, so I randomly clapped my hands together a couple of times and, by chance, smashed one of them into so much pulp. I can only assume that they give off some kind of distress pheromone when you do that, as the entire swarm of the buggers flew off and stayed the hell away for the rest of the walk.

ROFLMAO!!! That's a good idea...

Drewcifer wrote:OK, this is going to sound crazy, but I've heard that if you hang large plastic bags (like trash bags), with a fair amount of water in them, by your doors, flys will stay away. I know several people that swear by it, but I have never tried it myself. I can't think of any rational reason why this work either, unless water + sunlight + plastictrashbags gives off some odor that's offensive to flys. (which would amaze me, flys liking shit and all)

Just thought I'd pass that on.

And it could be worse. We have a terrible chigger problem here this summer, can't go out in the damn yard without long pants on, which sucks when it's hot like today, 99F, heat index 111F. (that's about 40C for you metrics)

standing water will just create a breeding ground for mosquitos. Mike you have to get rid of any stagnant water in the yard. insects love that shit, it's like the $5 an hour fuckshop motel for bugs. And flies love trash. spray the cans with Lysol a couple of times a week. Thats about all you can do. I mean, you could spray the lawn with Yard Guard every day, but unless you want three eyed grandchildren someday, thats really not a good idea.

ever seen two flies fuck? while flying?

an odd expiereince.

oh, and the ants are carrying off dead flies. very convenient.

and then my cat eats the ants.

Col. Crackpot wrote:

Drewcifer wrote:OK, this is going to sound crazy, but I've heard that if you hang large plastic bags (like trash bags), with a fair amount of water in them, by your doors, flys will stay away. I know several people that swear by it, but I have never tried it myself. I can't think of any rational reason why this work either, unless water + sunlight + plastictrashbags gives off some odor that's offensive to flys. (which would amaze me, flys liking shit and all)

Just thought I'd pass that on.

Use a Ziploc bag.

standing water will just create a breeding ground for mosquitos.

Surprisingly, this isn't actually a bad idea. I've been in places that ARE mosquito breeding grounds and the water-in-the-bag trick works. Don't ask me how, it just DOES.

~ver

My father once caught a fly by quickly cupping his hands together around the fly. Then for about five minutes he proceeded to shake his hands like a madman with dice in his hands, and opened his hands, letting the fly go. Apparently fly's can get extremely dizzy, and walls can become dangerous to them

You can imagine how bad it is here in southern Florida. Mosquitos everywhere.

On the rare occasions when my cat is not sleeping his lazy ass off, he is waging bloody war with moths. I'm not sure what the kill ratio is but I think it's currently stalemated.

And of course, since the entire freakin' block is all dressed up with flowers and gardens and whatnot, there's a small army of bees in the area. I hate bees with a passion. Honeybees, bumblebees, wasps, hornets, yellowjackets; it's all the same. Evil, evil spawn of some demonic, Satanic uber-beetle, bent on my death. Dammit.

And of course we have an ant problem, but ever since we posted little ant-traps at all their little exit-spots they've been dying by the hundreds. Odd, but they don't seem to be catching on.

And recently I woke up in my room just in time to see about fifty fireflies light up three feet from my head. Scared the hell out of my, especially because some of them were green.

How much of the fly population could the human race conceivably wipe out with some sort of plague that makes them stop reproducing? While still leaving enough flies to cause the decomposition of dead stuff?