Environmentally-Friendly

You hear a fly buzzing around the lounge room but you don’t want to use a chemical fly spray. What can you do?

Here are some environmentally friendly tips for keeping flies and their friends away from you and your family:

• regularly check and maintain fly screens on your windows - or get some if you don’t have any!
• wipe up any spills straight away so there is less to attract flies in the first place
• keep a screen door shut - it may take a few reminders to the kids for this one, but it works!
• burn citronella candles or oils in the house
• use the old fashioned sticky tapes to catch flies - you can make your own by putting some honey on a length of tape of even an old jar lid and putting it to eh side somewhere. Flies are attracted to it, get stuck and can’t get away
•  leave spiders and cobwebs alone - they will happily catch and eat flies for you!
• rub doorways and window frames with lavender oil or water you boiled onions in
• apparently you can catch flies in a saucer of 1tsp cream, 1 tsp vinegar and 1/2 tsp of black pepper - but I wouldn’t do this on a really hot day!

Do you have any other tips for getting rids of flies around the home?