HELP..the flies are HORRIFIC!

[hennyannie]

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Love this idea! Where do you buy the natural vanilla, I am having a bad time already with the skeeters.

 

[ValerieT]

Here at our farm we use Preditor Wasps from Arabico. used them for years, and they cut our fly population down to almost nothing. they also sell a Solar fly trap that uses yeast as a base that also works well

 

[nelgkel]

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it is because of all of the recent rain...I just ordered fly predators from spalding labs...got the pro terminator and ez fly traps too...
flies are awful right now!!

http://www.spalding-labs.com/?UrlRe...B&ptag=AD2A226E869044E1B9DF&conlogo=CT2801948

 

[shuizar209]

I seem to be having the same problem. I just bought the hanging fly trap. The 2-liter bottle kind that has the packet mix with water and viola. Reusable too. They seem to be doing their job already.

I was told not to put them by our back door because they attract flies so I hung one on a tree by the coop and one on another tree by my trash cans. Doesnt help that ive got a few meaties. Talk about stench.

Cant wait to rid myself of those.

 

[rufus]

The pop bottle traps work very well, but they very soon stink. In fact, they will gag a maggot. Put them as far away from the house as possible.

Flies amaze me. They will not land on fake sugar. I don't know why? Also, they love to land on the expensive Flexogen garden hose, but will not land on the cheap plastic one. What do flies know that we don't?

Rufus

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

I am not a fan of using diatomaceous earth due to the risk to the lungs if inhaled and I have yet to see anyone wear a mask while using DE. I have worked with DE professionally; gloves and masks are required--for a reason. DE once in the lungs stays in the lungs. So, if you like DE, may I suggest you protect yourself and don't allow any dust clouds (no matter how minor) near your animals.

Aside from DE, I am a big fan of the fly traps that are sticky rolls. I keep them in my coop and when the weather turns nice, I hang them every 2-3 feet on the fence of my coop. They are affordable, highly effective, and I don't find any downside . . . well, I suppose they aren't recyclable, but they can be burned.

 

[mdbokc]

I agree with the precaution of DE dust. People can be too casual about their applying it. When I apply it, the applicator, a cheap flour sifter, is a few inches off the floor and no wind. Then I am out of there.

 

[fishman65]

question....If DE is so bad for lungs how can a chicken dust in it and not be effected by it.....When they dust in it they stir up a big cloud of the stuff and seem to have no effect from it...except to be bug free.....just wondering??????

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I've been using the bag traps for flies. It has a little tube of stinky liquid you pop inside the bag. The flies love it, though I do have to change them about once a month b/c they aren't reusuable.......however they are very efffective. I get them from my local co- op.

 

[caspernc]

I treat DE just like any other poison.