n n n An electric fly swatter is genuinely handy for the one fly buzzing your kitchen, and an indoor light zapper earns a spot in a garage or porch, but neither one solves a fly problem. The short answer: kill the occasional fly with a swatter, keep any light zapper indoors and away from […]
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A fly spray drops the flies it hits on contact, and that is about all it does. It leaves no lasting barrier flies care about, and it does nothing about the maggots breeding in the trash, the drain, or the pet waste nearby. So the short answer is that a spray is for knocking down
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A fly trap is worth owning, but it is half the answer at best. A trap catches the adult flies already in or around your home, and it will never keep up on its own, because one female lays hundreds of eggs in nearby filth and a whole new batch hatches in about a week.
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Fruit flies feel like they appear out of nowhere, but they never do. They come from tiny eggs already laid on overripe or fermenting food, plus a steady trickle in from outside through window screens and on the produce you carry home from the store. A single female lays hundreds of eggs right on the
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You noticed a cloud of tiny flies in the kitchen and reached for the word everyone reaches for: gnats. The trouble is that “gnat” lumps three different insects together, and they do not breed in the same place. Fungus gnats come out of damp potting soil, fruit flies come out of fermenting produce and the
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If your kitchen suddenly has a cloud of tiny flies, the thing to understand is that they did not wander in by accident. Fruit flies multiply on anything fermenting, so the overripe bananas, the splash of juice behind the toaster, the recycling bin, and the gunk down the drain are all nurseries. The only durable
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n n n If you keep seeing little fuzzy flies hovering around a sink or shower, you almost certainly have drain flies, and the reason nothing you have tried works is that you are treating the wrong thing. Drain flies live and breed in the gelatinous organic film that lines the inside of your drainpipe,
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If a little cloud lifts off your houseplants every time you walk past, the best fungus gnat killer is not a spray, it is drier soil plus a treatment that reaches the larvae living in it. The short answer: stop overwatering and let the top inch or two dry out, drench the pot with a
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If cluster flies are droning against your windows on a warm winter afternoon, the spray can in your hand will not fix it. Cluster flies spend the cold months tucked inside your wall voids and attic, and the ones at the glass are just the few that woke up and crawled toward the light, so
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If you are wondering do flies bite, the answer is yes – but only certain kinds. The fly buzzing around your kitchen is usually a housefly, and houseflies cannot pierce skin. The flies that do bite have specialized mouthparts for blood-feeding, and their bites often feel sharper and more irritating than a mosquito bite. This
