14-07-2014, 12:15 AM
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Re: Flies!
I think there are more flies around than ever this year, along with many other insects too.I like my back door and windows open most of the time when the weather is nice, so I stuck 2 small strips I cut off an old T.shirt over the back door frame and drip 2 or 3 drops of Citronella essential oils onto the material. It not only makes the kitchen smell lovely and fresh, it helps keep the flies out too. I also have a small plant saucer on the outside windowsill, fill it with water and drop some oils into that as well, and it seems to stop most flies coming indoors. Any that do enter soon get swatted because they drive me nuts buzzing around and crawling over stuff. I never use sprays, partly because I hate the smell of them and secondly because it getting into the dogs water bowls. I would certainly never spray a wasp indoors because they go crazy and dive-bomb me before they die. Swatting's safer and quicker.
14-07-2014, 01:12 AM
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Re: Flies!
Originally Posted by Gabi
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Every time I go out the back door flies always seem to come in with me...I've just got one of those mesh screens with the magnets on not had any flies....Yet
14-07-2014, 07:37 AM
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I used to have fly paper stuck up but it didn't get all of them. I once had an unusual invasion of midges, stuck on a bottle of oil in the kitchen, and so I put up several of those things and caught a load. It took a while to work out where they were coming from...an opened bag of compost in the small hallway cupboard, so I took that off smartly to the allotment shed!I then chucked out all plants and lived for awhile plant free, till a neighbour gave me a purple leaved one, because I'd given her a cutting in the past. Aaarrgghhh!!! I don't want plants in the flat!!
PS, I'm on the bog being dive bombed by my unwanted tenant! Helllpppppp!
Love that ! 
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