But the solution here works VERY well:
But the solution here works VERY well:
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.
Only works in daylight conditions, unfortunately. Don't face the laser, and wear flash cream on the back of your neck.
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
Tiny flies + mini gun = problem solved.
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.
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
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.
cap full of bleach every night in the drains.
enclose or refrigerate fruit especially bananas
Put a glass of beer out, covered in saran wrap, and poke a hole in the top with a pencil.
If you lay down with dogs you get fleas.
Fly paper...seriously.
Hang a strip near where they hang out...in mere seconds, they will start to get caught.
The fly paper is also dirt cheap, compared to sprays, etc.
I solved mine by kicking out the ex-girlfriend.
We have something of a Mosquito epidemic with some deaths resulting from the virus they harbor here in DFW. You also have untenable critter problems. Thus, how about a trade? Our West Nile Virus carrying mosquitoes for your tiny fly infestation and an insect swarm to be named later. Think about it.
First, you’ve got to find the food source they are eating, otherwise if you get rid of them, they’ll just be back. For very small flies, it could be something you wouldn’t expect, like a container of grain/rice/cereal that they are able to get into. For bigger ones, it could be a dead mouse or something like that in your walls or basement that they are feeding off of.
Once you get rid of whatever they are eating, and make sure there isn’t any other food they can get to, then they will die off pretty quick. If you need to get rid of them faster, you can just fog up the rooms where they are with flying insect spray, and leave them closed up for a few hours. Then, just make sure that you ventilate those parts of your house for 6-8 hours before you go back in there, so you don’t make yourself sick. Also, make sure to rinse off kitchen countertops, stove, pots & pans, etc if you spray in the kitchen, because you don’t want that stuff getting in your food.
Pour some apple cider vinegar into a jar and place a funnel on top. Pointy end down. A home-made paper funnel works fine.
Heat the vinegar up and it works even better.
Surprising to find flies now when it's so hot and dry. It may be another species.
Anyway, I remember walking with my arm up in the air when I was in Vermont. The flies would circle around the hand and leave my face alone.
Not exactly much of a solution, I know, but you work with what you have.
It sounds like you have drain flies. They breed in sinks and bathtub drains. Catch them with a hose from your vac and then clean all drains with Drano or something like that.
http://www.pestproducts.com/fliesdrains.htm