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Is anyone else having a "Plague" of tiny flies?
18 July 2012 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 07/18/2012 3:09:40 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

If so what did you do to rid yourself of them?


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To: US Navy Vet

Get a can of hairspray...seriously. Mist a cloud around them and it gums up their wings, and they fall to the floor.


21 posted on 07/18/2012 3:25:55 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Speaking of flies on lips.. WHERE HAS THAT MOUTH BEEN? That’s disgusting.


22 posted on 07/18/2012 3:26:46 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: US Navy Vet

23 posted on 07/18/2012 3:27:20 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: US Navy Vet

Yes, I have them! They get into everything. So small they get into a closed (previously opened) package of bread.I use bug spray when there are a lot in one place. Aren’t they fruit flies?


24 posted on 07/18/2012 3:27:44 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: US Navy Vet

Get some hummingbirds - they love those small little gnat/flies. I do not know how to get hummingbirds out of the house though.


25 posted on 07/18/2012 3:27:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: stocksthatgoup

I see them at the opposite end of my house from the kitchen. Should I boil it and bring the pan to the bedroom?

They do look like fruit flies from a search I did. I do have a pear tree in the backyard that drops not very tasty pears. I’ve neglected them on the ground, but I better pick them up.


26 posted on 07/18/2012 3:28:06 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

“If so what did you do to rid yourself of them?”

Let the Jews go free. (Otherwise worse things are going to happen...)


27 posted on 07/18/2012 3:28:16 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: US Navy Vet

vinegar with a drop of dish liquid


28 posted on 07/18/2012 3:28:35 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Separated at birth?

29 posted on 07/18/2012 3:28:46 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 85+% of the black vote)
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To: US Navy Vet
We have the gnats/small-fly buggers, as well as the persistent bigger thing (deer-fly?) that doesn't rest, once it has a bead on you, without biting - circling your head until success...

But the solution here works VERY well:


30 posted on 07/18/2012 3:28:46 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: SkyDancer

It’s a bonanza for bats and spiders.


31 posted on 07/18/2012 3:29:12 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

I’m in the Dallas area. These guys don’t seem to do anything but hang out on the wall, but I’ll be glad to see the last of them.


32 posted on 07/18/2012 3:30:27 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: theDentist

Yeah, I’ve tried taking a shower, but it doesn’t seem to discourage the little effers.
This is the second summer in a row that I have been plagued by the bastids.
My advice:
Never leave dirty dishes in the sink
Put all fruit and veggies in fridge
Vacuum the little buggies up; this works well with the vacuum hose
Clean out your sink drains
Put some rotten fruit in a shallow bowl, add some water and detergent; they will fly in but can’t fly out.
Get rid of any plants in your kitchen
Use raid, that’ll show ‘em who’s the boss
As a last resort, just become friends with them. You can never have enough friends


33 posted on 07/18/2012 3:31:01 PM PDT by BIV (typical white person)
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To: US Navy Vet

Are they indoors or outdoors?

If indoors, buy a can of RAID home and garden. It beats fly swatters and fly paper hands down. You have to find the source of their breeding if they are indoors. I had a problem with tiny flies not too long ago in my house and I tracked the problem down to a drain I did not use. They were laying eggs in the drain of a sink that had some slime in it. The faucet had a real slow drip that provided enough moisture to grow slime in the drain and the fly larva was feeding on that slime. To get rid of them all i had to do was run the water in that sink for 20 minutes and then dump some drano down the drain.


34 posted on 07/18/2012 3:31:10 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: US Navy Vet
40W CO2 laser with high-speed 2-axis galvo steering mirror and Litton LVS modulator driver. 32 MPx video camera at 250 fps, blade array of 16 64-bit pentiums running at 83.33 GHz. Proprietary cam interface.

Only works in daylight conditions, unfortunately. Don't face the laser, and wear flash cream on the back of your neck.

35 posted on 07/18/2012 3:31:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Home depot carries fly traps. Its a plastic bag that you put water in. The flys go in and can’t get out. The grandkids like watching the flys fly around inside the bag


36 posted on 07/18/2012 3:32:07 PM PDT by whiteclockinthetrees (time deposits pearls)
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To: US Navy Vet

Tiny flies + mini gun = problem solved.


37 posted on 07/18/2012 3:33:31 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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To: US Navy Vet

I had them in my basement, and the flew around my PC. I put up several of the sticky flytraps. They caught hundreds in about a week, and I think I got rid of them.


38 posted on 07/18/2012 3:35:14 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: US Navy Vet

put out a shallow bowl of water with a few drops of fruit juice in it an one drop of dish soap — flies will land in the water and drown — soap breaks the surface tension so they can’t take off again


39 posted on 07/18/2012 3:35:14 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: US Navy Vet
Not sure if this will work for you, but it works great for us.

Take a small plastic cup, like a medicine cup.
Put a small amount of honey in bottom of cup
Fill with apple cider vinegar
Mix in a little bit of dish soap.

The honey and apple cider vinegar attract them. When they land on the surface, the soap breaks the surface tension and they sink like stones to the bottom and are drowned.

40 posted on 07/18/2012 3:35:57 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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