20.01.2017
It is very unpleasant when a fly flies around in an apartment, and not just one, but a whole swarm. These insects are not only annoying with their buzzing, but can also infect a person with many dangerous diseases, such as diphtheria, dysentery and even cholera. To effectively remove these pests, you need to find out why flies appear in the apartment, and only after that you can begin active actions to destroy them.
- Where do they come from?
- Reasons for appearance
- What to do if you appear
- Prevention of occurrence
Where do they come from?
To begin with, let’s figure out where these creatures come from in our home. There are two main ways insects enter your home.
- First way. Doors and windows that are not completely closed. In addition, flies can enter an apartment through a ventilation hole, but this route of penetration is quite complicated, because the movement of the parasite is hampered by moving air currents. These small insects can enter your home through small cracks.
- Second way. Parasites are brought into the house along with vegetables or fruits. In this case, flies appeared in the apartment from eggs, their number increases exponentially. In addition to food, tenants can be brought into the house with a bouquet of flowers. Similar problems are present during the warm period.
If a fly appears in winter, then the cause of this phenomenon can be considered a sharp increase in temperature. A single insect must be disposed of immediately. Most often, winged creatures attack residents of the lower floors. A favorable environment for their reproduction is considered to be a dirty basement, garbage disposal, or proximity to a landfill.
Owners of suburban real estate are experiencing particular difficulties. Many people don’t know how flies appear, but here the insects live freely. High concentrations of pests are observed near a cesspool or barn with domestic animals. Many flies live in the toilet, as well as near compost heaps. During migration, insects end up in the kitchen and other rooms of a private house, but they cannot get out through the special structure of the visual organs. The fact is that insects do not see transparent barriers, so they often hit glass during flight.
The legs of parasites have special suction cups, so flies can move along horizontal and vertical surfaces, which expands the number of ways to penetrate human housing.
Video: How to get rid of flies in your house forever
If flies fly into the house, then there are many ways to exterminate them. You can go to the store for a special sprayer, make a homemade solution, or build a trap yourself. The best option would be to use all methods in one fly kit. We also must not forget about preventive measures.
The best option would be to use all methods in one fly kit.
Reasons for appearance
We have found out where flies come from in the apartment, now we will describe the reasons for the penetration of these insects. According to experts, the parasites may be attracted to the smell of potato peelings and other food waste.
The appearance of flies is associated with the lack of basic sanitary and hygienic standards in the kitchen. If cleanliness and order are regularly maintained, the winged squadron will never appear in this room.
If a lot of flies appear in the kitchen and you don’t fight them, the insects will quickly move to other rooms of the house. Parasites are attracted to the following:
- rotting waste in the trash can;
- unwashed dishes in the sink;
- crumbs of bread and grains of sugar on the table;
- traces of dirt on the floor;
- areas with high humidity.
As you can understand, food debris and dirt in the home are considered the main factors attracting insects. Many people do not know when flies appear. Although this happens during the warm season, you should not relax. In autumn, pests also enter the apartment, here they try to find a convenient place for hibernation. Every home has many corners where winged aliens can hide.
Thick, black, sleepy flies: who are they?
Firstly, it is worth knowing that we are not talking about small midges, which can sometimes be found circling over fruits - these are small fruit flies , which will not be difficult to deal with. They are quite harmless and are attracted only by leftover food. As soon as you remove or cover the fruits on the table, the circling small fry will immediately disappear.
Leftover food serves as an excellent breeding ground for small midges.
More annoying and even dangerous are relatives of fruit flies - thick, black and very annoying flies. Ubiquitous, they can buzz in your ear for hours, irritating all family members. In addition, they are also dangerous: their paws are covered with small villi, which collect a huge number of all kinds of harmful bacteria.
There are about 75 thousand flies in the world. Some of them are very dangerous, like the famous Tsetse fly, others bite unpleasantly, while others are completely harmless creatures.
The inhabitant of houses and apartments is most often the housefly. It is she who, as a rule, bothers us in the summer and autumn. An insect of this species does not bite and is not blood-sucking, but is dangerous only as a carrier of various diseases . Interestingly, the life cycle of a housefly is quite short: these insects live only 8-20 days.
Flies are very annoying insects
In addition, you can find a thick carrion fly in the house. It can be distinguished by its bright shiny green body color.
What to do if you appear
What to do if flies appear in the apartment? There are many answers to this question. Next, we will describe the most popular methods of destroying or expelling insects.
spring-cleaning
This method involves eliminating the source of attraction for insects. In the kitchen, you need to wash the refrigerator, cabinet and other surfaces, clear the table, and wash the dishes.
To prevent pests from entering your apartment, store stale food in a separate sealed container, cover the trash can with food waste, and constantly treat the trash can with disinfectants.
Using a fly swatter
If general cleaning in the kitchen did not give the desired result and flies reappeared in the apartment, you can try to eliminate them using a fly swatter. If you don’t have such a device, use old newspapers or magazines that are wrapped in a tube.
A huge disadvantage of this method is considered to be insect stains on the ceiling and wall, which is why many housewives have started using electric fly swatters. This device runs on batteries and does all the work without the participation of the apartment owner.
Using homemade traps
If for some reason a person cannot buy special sticky traps for flies, then you can make insect bait yourself using improvised means. First, make syrup (50-60 grams of sugar per 100 milliliters of water with the addition of lemon juice). Next, cut pieces of paper to the required length, spread with the prepared solution and leave to dry. A hole is made in the top of the trap for a loop.
After the syrup has dried, the strips are hung in places where flies are most concentrated. Another option for a homemade trap is to use a milk solution with the same sugar concentration. The liquid is simply poured into a jar, after which the containers are placed around the perimeter of the apartment.
Here's another way to make homemade fly traps.
Using a mosquito net
Anti-mosquito nets on doors and windows will prevent the appearance of flies in the apartment and will make it possible to ventilate the premises without fear of pest attacks. It should be remembered that flies can crawl into the smallest cracks, so places of damage in the mesh must be repaired immediately after they appear.
Video: Universal trap for flies and mosquitoes
Moistened cloth
To drive flies away from an area, you can force them to stick, then leave them to die a slow death. The trap, consisting of one dampened rag, includes the following composition:
- rosin;
- honey;
- castor oil;
- a couple of lines of fabric.
To create bait against flies you need:
- Mix the presented ingredients in equal proportions.
- Apply the resulting mixture onto a cloth.
- Place a rag on a window frame or other object where flies accumulate.
DIY fly trap
Prevention of occurrence
After the owner of the house has managed to stop the invasion of pathogenic insects, he needs to move on to preventive actions. Their basis is considered to be maintaining cleanliness and order not only in the kitchen, but also in other rooms. Do not create piles of food waste, constantly remove accumulated garbage, store unused vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator or airtight container.
Other preventive actions include using mosquito nets on doors and windows. Indoor plants on the windowsill, for example, geraniums, tomato seedlings, and eucalyptus, can also repel flies. Insects do not like the smell of elderberry and tansy.
Flies are quite frequent guests in our apartment. These insects multiply quickly and can cause harm not only to humans, but also to pets. The chemical “Dichlorvos” will help quickly destroy pests, but it is better to prevent them from appearing in the apartment. To do this, you need to keep the house clean.
Chemical methods of control
If all the previous methods have not made you a winner in the war with flies, let's move on to a chemical attack. Almost all chemical preparations aimed at killing flying insects include pyrethroids - insecticides (poisons) that cause paralysis in insects and lead to their death. Such products are produced in the form of aerosols, powders, liquids, etc. All these insecticides do not, according to manufacturers, have a negative effect on human health. However, it is still worth taking precautions:
- It is best to spray aerosols while wearing a respirator.
- Gloves should be used when handling powders and liquids.
- After using the drug (after the time specified in the instructions), it is imperative to ventilate the room.
We list the most effective, according to users, chemical preparations for killing flies and other flying insects.
- Dichlorvos. The name of this aerosol has been known to us since childhood. Now, under this name, drugs are produced that differ in composition from traditional dichlorvos. Some of them are odorless.
- DR. KLAUS against flies. Another aerosol. Manufacturers claim that its action will last for 2 months. To prevent the invasion of flies from the outside, it is recommended to spray those places outside the house that most often serve as a refuge for insects.
- Contra Insect Universal. A spray that can be applied to any surface where flies have been observed. There is no pungent odor.
- Agita. Powder, which, after diluting in water, must be applied to frames, doors, window sills, warm pipes, etc.
- Fly Byte. Granular preparation. The granules should be placed in the most fly-infested areas. You can make a paste out of them and apply them to those surfaces that are most often visited by dipterans.
In war, all means are good, and if the previous ones turned out to be ineffective, then the time has come to use smoke bombs. For flies, in terms of the degree of destruction, they are like a nuclear bomb for a person. If they don't help, the war is lost. The main thing is that if you get carried away with fighting flies, do not harm yourself or your household.
To combat flies, the Mukhoyar smoke bomb was created. Its action is based, like other chemical drugs, on the nerve-paralytic effect of pyrethroids. However, in terms of efficiency, Mukhoyar exceeds all of the named analogues, because Thanks to the gas spray, it penetrates into all cracks and crevices, leaving no chance for flies to go unnoticed. This gas is safer than sulfur bombs, however, the use of Mukhoyar is allowed only in private houses: gases in an apartment building can penetrate into the territory of other apartments.
After lighting the checker, you must immediately leave the room and return there for ventilation no earlier than an hour later. When the smell completely disappears from the room, you need to do wet cleaning. After all these measures have been carried out, housing will become absolutely safe for people.
Peculiarities of insect life in an apartment
The common (house) fly is a well-known parasite that is not picky about food. The insect spends almost its entire life where there is a lot of food and favorable conditions for reproduction. Swarms of flies are found near garbage cans, landfills, in open toilets, damp basements, etc.
Insects are very prolific. The main feature of their reproduction is the laying of eggs in hard-to-reach places. In 30 days of her life, one female can lay up to 600 eggs. One clutch includes 150 pieces. Within a week, maggots (larvae) hatch, and after 2 weeks the pupa turns into an adult, ready for fertilization and reproduction. The process lasts endlessly until the cold weather.
On a note!
For the development of maggots, soil or a rotting environment is required. In apartments, this could be a flower pot, a trash can, a box for storing vegetables, excrement in the toilet, or ordinary dirt. Parasites do not reproduce in an apartment as intensively as in natural conditions, but this amount is enough to annoy the residents of the house.
Preventive actions
Do not forget that flies are the main carriers of infectious diseases and pathogenic bacteria. When flying, insects very quickly spread dangerous particles. Particularly unfavorable is the appearance in the house of a green carrion fly, which lives both among flowering, strong-smelling plants and in dirty places: manure, various rotting waste, as well as on decomposing animal corpses.
Due to the fact that flies breed quite quickly, their penetration into the house is completely undesirable. To prevent their spread, you must follow simple rules:
- do not leave vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, sweets and other products in the open for a long time, since they are a favorable environment for the development of eggs;
- try to keep the house clean by promptly disposing of food and household waste;
- use mosquito nets: since flies appear in homes, usually flying into windows or doors;
If pests are still able to appear in the house, it is necessary to use folk and chemical means to destroy them.
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Reproduction in apartment conditions
Females lay eggs in rotten indoor plants, vegetables, fruits, food waste, and trash cans. Insects do not reproduce in a closed apartment as intensively as when the windows are open, but within 14 days an infestation of flies may be observed in the room.
Comfortable temperatures and unsanitary conditions contribute to high rates of reproduction. Garbage that is not thrown away for weeks, a bucket of slop, drawers where unwashed vegetables with soil particles are stored, unwashed dishes, an uncleaned table.
One female lays up to 150 eggs per day. The laying is repeated every 2 days. Within a week, the female establishes an entire colony. Under favorable development conditions, a larva appears the next day - maggot.
The size of the white worm does not exceed 1 mm, so it often goes unnoticed. Every day it increases in size, and after about 10 days of its existence it pupates. After 3 days, an adult individual emerges from the pupa, ready for fertilization. In this way, a lot of flies appear in a closed apartment within 2 weeks.
On a note!
A green, blue or gray blowfly indoors can also lay eggs. However, their development requires certain conditions. Maggots eat protein foods and develop in tissues where rotting and fermentation occur. If you leave a piece of meat for a week or two, or fish, a new generation of parasites will appear; under other circumstances, they die without going through the full development cycle. Only house flies can breed indoors.
No. 4. Poisons
A fairly effective poison can easily be made at home from improvised means To do this you will need simple ingredients. Let's look at a few recipes :
- A mixture is prepared (1 g of saccharin per 10 g of honey). Paper is impregnated with this composition, which is then dried and laid out on the windowsill and in places where flies accumulate. After laying out, the paper is soaked in a small amount of water.
- Pieces of bread are dipped into small containers with a specially prepared composition: milk (3 tbsp), formaldehyde (0.5 tsp) and soda (5 tsp) and placed near the windows.
- Black pepper is famous for its destructive properties for flies. The following recipe is based on this: black pepper is added to milk, and paper is soaked in this composition. These traps are placed throughout the house. Instead of milk, you can use sweet water.
Strong unpleasant odor
They are sharp only for flies. A person does not feel them at all. Therefore, you can safely use them in small concentrations. But the flies definitely won't like it.
- Essential oil of orange, lemon, laurel, eucalyptus, clove, lavender, peppermint. These aromas will be pleasant to you and will repel insects. Nice bonus, right?
- Rosettes of carnations. It is enough to keep a small container with them in an inconspicuous place.
- The smell of kerosene and turpentine. Yes, these odors are not very pleasant for humans. But in small quantities you won’t feel it.
- Onion juice. Just apply it to the window frame and door frame.
- Vapors of vodka and alcohol. Pour them into a spray bottle and spray a couple of times into the air.
- Laurel leaves. Fresh or dried doesn't matter. Place them selectively in several places.
- Lavender scent. Place beautiful fresh lavender flowers that will decorate your home and at the same time repel flies.
- Fresh or dried leaves of mint, basil, tansy, wormwood, tomatoes, geranium. Proceed in the same way as with bay leaves.
