Flies are annoying creatures that fly without invitation to our home and do not lift our mood at all. How to get rid of flies at home, if their flock has suddenly come unexpectedly?
The most important thing is not to allow the appearance of factors that attract flies. Carefully remove all the crumbs from the table and floor, do not leave the sweet on the table in the open state (jam, compote, chocolate), take out the garbage on time and carefully store the vegetables that are rotten.
If flies still wound up, then the easiest way to deal with them are Velcro. They are attached to the ceiling and catch flying past insects. In the summer, a screen for the flies can serve as a grid on the windows. But how to get rid of flies in winter, when their appearance is not waiting for anyone? At any time of the year you will be helped by folk remedies:
- "Poison" for flies: mix honey or jam with ground black pepper and leave in the open. Having eaten such a mixture, the flies die in 3-5 days.
- Saturate the newspaper with a mixture of honey and saccharin, then carefully dry it. After sitting on such a newspaper, the flies die in a couple of hours.
- Start insectivorous plants : sundew, venus flytrap, chicken.
If there are flies in flowers, and how to get rid of them you do not know, the following tips will work for you:
- limit the watering of plants with water;
- moisten the soil with a solution of potassium permanganate;
- dry the soil by sprinkling it with ashes or calcined in sand.
How to get rid of carrot and onion flies?
Onion and carrot fly are real pests in the garden. They devour not only the harvest of carrots and onions, but also flowers and other plants. The easiest way to get rid of onion and carrot flies is to treat the beds with a weak solution of ammonia (0.1%) or a solution of ammonia in the amount of 1 ml per 5 liters of water. It is also advisable to use frightening plants (tansy, wormwood, coriander).