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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 some of that old fashioned hanging fly paper.

Are they sand flies?? I know they bite??

61 posted on 07/18/2012 3:59:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: US Navy Vet

I am having a problem with fruit flies as well as my sister 30 miles across town.


62 posted on 07/18/2012 4:00:00 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: US Navy Vet
Use a pyrethroid spray approved for use in eating establishments and dairies. Pyrethrins~0.9% with piperonyl butoxide~9% is the combination that is effective. I have used it for over thirty years in business and at home. It knocks them out of the sky easily...makes the home a “no fly” zone. Its the same fly spray they use in dining halls in the military.
63 posted on 07/18/2012 4:00:10 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: US Navy Vet

Funny you should mention flies. Just yesteday I noticed an abundance of houseflies. We have many euonymous bushes on our patio and they are teaming with flies. Shop vac works great inside the house.


64 posted on 07/18/2012 4:01:08 PM PDT by NoExpectations
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To: I see my hands

hahahah....ya bastaad....got me!

where can I get that GIF?


65 posted on 07/18/2012 4:01:24 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: theDentist

Take the poop outside. ;-)


66 posted on 07/18/2012 4:02:17 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Iron Munro

My sister complained about these the other day,
I told her it was because she voted for Obama.


67 posted on 07/18/2012 4:02:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Hammerhead

If your sister is 30 miles away, how much trouble
can she be?


68 posted on 07/18/2012 4:04:54 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: CyberAnt

These aren’t fleas. Any fleas we’ve ever had can jump pretty high but they can’t fly.


69 posted on 07/18/2012 4:10:53 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Hammerhead
I am having a problem with fruit flies as well as my sister 30 miles across town.

Flypaper won't help your sister problem. You need something larger, like a wall of velcro.

70 posted on 07/18/2012 4:13:53 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: US Navy Vet

Happened to me last year. Got to where I was leaving a light on at night with fly paper hanging beside it to collect them all.

Turned out to be a bag of rotted potatoes that were forgotten in a stack of boxes in the corner of the kitchen.


71 posted on 07/18/2012 4:14:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: I see my hands


Man, that's just mean!

72 posted on 07/18/2012 4:16:37 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: US Navy Vet

Yes. I used a tiny fly swatter. :-)


73 posted on 07/18/2012 4:17:18 PM PDT by mainevet (Get an M1911 or two or three or four)
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To: Rennes Templar
"I haven’t had any until now, just saw one on my computer screen..."

Chase it with your cursor - runs 'em crazy... '-)

74 posted on 07/18/2012 4:17:18 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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The low tech solution I have used:

1. Get a plastic grocery bag without any small holes in it
2. Put a small amount of smelly fruit peels and such in it
3. Let bag stand upright and open
4. After 15 minutes grab and close the top of the bag with your hand
5. Slowly push the air out of the top and squish the flies inside the bag with your fingers. This is fun and your hands remain clean because there are no holes in the plastic
6. Reopen the bag and stand it upright and open
7. Repeat over and over. Soon you will find fewer and fewer are caught each time as the population in the area goes down.


75 posted on 07/18/2012 4:21:11 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: US Navy Vet

I had similar problem last week here in Texas. Storm front came through one evening, afterwards tens of thousands of tiny brown flies appeared on my back porch. Must have blown in on the front. So small I could barely see them. They were coming into the kitchen through the smallest cracks around the windows (these are new vinyl windows!) thousands of them all over the kitchen surfaces and lights. I got the vacuum and went over the whole kitchen, then went out on the porch and vacuumed all of them on the windows and walls, many, many thousands. Then went back into the kitchen and got all the ones that had gotten in while I was on the porch. Next
morning I went out on the porch again and vacuumed up another few thousand. Haven’t seen another one since, it’s been over a week now. The trick is to vacuum them all right away, so they don’t breed.


76 posted on 07/18/2012 4:22:54 PM PDT by Puzzler
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To: US Navy Vet

Our late, greatly missed Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake hated those pecker gnats.


77 posted on 07/18/2012 4:23:49 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: US Navy Vet

Use more than 2 squares. LOL

Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself.

Good luck..


78 posted on 07/18/2012 4:24:40 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: US Navy Vet

Do you have lots of bananas or wind? I ask because fruit flies like bananas, but time flies like the wind.


79 posted on 07/18/2012 4:27:25 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Joe 6-pack; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Do you know why they always invite President Obama... to a Polish wedding?

He keeps the flies... off the bride--

Of course, we tell that as an Aggie joke... down here in Texas.

80 posted on 07/18/2012 4:30:56 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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