How to struggle with flies

How to struggle with flies

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Open windows and doors are the main reasons of appearance of flies in the apartment. They are attracted by heat, light and availability of food. Flies cause many troubles the emergence, they constantly buzz, fly near food and also quickly breed. To get rid of these insects it is possible to use one of set of the checked methods.

Large number of not removed food – one of the main reasons of presence of flies in the apartment. If in your kitchen bread crumbs, untidy cookies, cakes or any other food accumulate, appearance of flies in this room is almost inevitable. Try to clean up more carefully in kitchen, wash the dishes right after its use, completely clean floors, tables and other surfaces from the food remains, garbage cans always you hold closed.

Before using special means for fight against flies, try to bring them, having shaded the room. Flies, as a rule, always fly to light. Close door in the room in which flies have appeared, push curtains, having left not covered the cracked window. If flies also do not take off, you will bring together them on the small site of the room, and it will be much simpler to struggle with them.

In shops it is possible to get special adhesive tapes from flies. Besides, such tapes can be made independently. For this purpose mix ¼ glasses of any sweet syrup about ¼ glasses of sugar, this solution will serve at the same time as bait and trap. Cut thin strips from rather dense paper, make openings from one of their ends. Apply the prepared solution on strips of paper and let's them dry out. Hang out these strips on rope in the room in which flies have accumulated.

Try not to use for fight against flies the evaporating chemicals, especially in apartments where children and elderly people live.

Some houseplants help to get rid of flies, frightening off them the smell. The geranium, eucalyptus and myrtle are among such plants, for example. Place pots with these plants on windowsills and at open doors. For protection of kitchen it is possible to use the crushed leaves of mint or basil, display them in cooking zone, besides, the basil can be grown up in pot and to hold it in kitchen.

In summertime on windowsill it is possible to spread out fresh branches of elder or fern.

For prevention of penetration of flies through windows, close them mosquito grid, it it is possible to take in finished form together with the body or to make independently of piece of grid. You watch condition of mosquito grid, at emergence of openings in it immediately repair it. One more way to protect the apartment from penetration of flies is to process windows and doors special structure. As such structure it is possible to use, for example, lavender oil or juice of onions. Blot piece of matter with this solution and wipe with it window frames and outer doors. This procedure needs to be carried out periodically since the structure will disappear over time.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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