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How to prevent flies
How to prevent flies
Flies make an appearance when you least expect it. They may start by buzzing around your head every once in a while, but then you look around and they are on top of food that is sitting on the counter waiting to be served. That’s when you have had enough with them and want them gone. You can actually prevent them from even coming into your house to begin with. Knowing how to prevent flies from invading your home will help you stay safer and more clean. First, it’s important to note that a fly, a simple black or gray buzzing fly, can carry diseases that harm you and your family. While it is not always a sure thing to be infected by a fly as soon as it lands on you, the possibilities are there and the probability is high enough that you won’t want to risk it.
An ounce of prevention
So let’s go over some of the ways that you can prevent flies.
- Keep doors and window screens intact and able to stop a fly from entering the home in the summer. Without these screens, flies will be able to fly in and out whenever they want to or you will have to spend the summer with the doors closed and air conditioning
on. - Keep all food covered at all times. If you are cooking or preparing food, keep it covered in between times that you don’t need to have it exposed to prep. It takes just a minute or two to turn a nice dish into something that a fly has pooped and vomited on, not to mention they also lay eggs there too.
- If it has an odor, get rid of it. Don’t let your fridge become a fly magnet. You want to clean it out weekly to stay ahead of the game.
- If the flies seem to be buzzing around something outside, go out and investigate to determine what is attracting them. Once you find out what it is, you can then eliminate it, move it away from your home, or treat it with a natural fly repellent so that flies won’t want to stay.
Flies are nasty and can be a pest to you and your family. You can take some necessary steps to prevent them from causing you and your family to get sick. Flies carry diseases that range from an eye infection to dysentery. If flies are bothering your livestock, you will want to get them some treatment at your local farm supply store. Flies can bite livestock and transmit diseases to them as well as humans. Fly bites can be painful too. In order to prevent an issue with flies, stay proactive. Buy the fly prevention items needed in the spring so you are ready when the flies become a problem. Keep manure shoveled up and taken away from the barnyard so that the flies won’t be attracted to the livestock. They will follow the smell of the manure and that is why you want to keep it away from your barnyard.
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