HELP! Flies have me at wit's end

[Mini Meat]

Quote: California, but it is a county agency.

 

[N F C]

I see several say that the fly tape isn't enough. Have you seen the 12" wide sticky fly traps sold at tractor supply? We used them for the first time this summer and they wipe out 90% of our problem the first day. It is a cyclical process because the ones you are killing have already laid eggs. But the first time we used them, I had been killing with a fly swatter and catching with liquid traps only a few common house flies. And thinking I was catching most. The first day we caught about 10 different looking flies and hundreds of them, way more than I realized we had!! We now rip pieces off and just lay it around like one piece near the bags of food, one near a trash can, one near our meal worm house, etc. it keeps it sooo under control. One of our chicken houses was cured of its problem in a week. The other chicken house we have the fly paper stuck to a wall so the chickens don't get tangled in it and they eat the flies off of it so there are just legs left

I do think it takes multiple types of attack at the same time. But we love this paper! And it's made to attract flies.

We picked up a roll of the 12" wide fly paper at Tractor Supply a few days ago. We put up one large piece to try it out and yesterday we found a small anole (lizard) stuck to it

Poor little thing, he went after the flies that are printed on the sticky paper, couldn't get off and died. I like the lizards we have here, they do their part to control the flies.

We're going to try the paper in a couple other spots because the flies are out of control here this year but I sure hope we don't get any more lizards!

 

[Akrnaf2]

We also have big fly problem this year!
I use some special sticky sheet that their yellow
Color attract the flays( see pic) And I also use a chicken safe pesticide,
That kills the adult and the maggots, I have reduced the problem by 80%!