Fly Control

[lkempf]

What do you guys use to control flies in your garages? I am constantly sweeping them up from under the windows in my garage. Do the traps that attach to your window work?

 

[Streetbu]

Old fashioned fly strips and when they get really bad I use fly spray for horses around the inside of the shop. We have farm fields on three sides so they can be bad at times.

 

[EOC_Jason]

I have a friend that uses those ones you stick on the window and they seem to work.

My garage doesn't have windows so I just hang one of those glue strips and it seems to get quite a few.

 

[Fixin'Stuff]

The fly traps that you add water to work pretty well, but you don't want one in your garage. The stench that they generate to attract flies is not something you want to be close to.

 

[Augus7us]

Are you talking an annoying level of flies or something like apocalyptic end of days every fly in the state has taken up residence in your shop level of flies?

I believe mine to be the latter. So much so that I was planning on taking photos of all the dead ones I swept up this spring and posting them here to see if this is normal in the country or I'm just 'special'. We bought this house last year and i'm about 20 minutes out of the city now and I've seen so many flies. No farms or anything like that around me. Just bean fields...

So anything that is more effective than fly strips would be appreciated. We used them in the house but in the shop they weren't that effective.

-Clint

 

[nkachur]

If you want to kill, get a Konk dispenser. However if you shop is fairly airtite you need to only have it spray a couple of times a day.

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[bottom feeder]

I was given one of these as a Christmas gift. We'll see how well it works once the flies start showing up this spring:

https://bugasalt.com/products/yellow-bug-a-salt-2-0

 

[Chris705]

I second the sticky sheets that adhere via small adhesive strip, cluster flies hang out in my widows , but now that I have been doing that for a couple years their numbers are slowly decreasing.

 

[Shootinok]

Second on the bug assault !
I’m on my second one because we wore out the first one.
They work Awesome - and nothing beats blasting those filthy little bast():ds
There’s something very satisfying about it.

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[Richard Cranium]

I use fly paper..

 

[MScott]

You really need to bury the bodies deeper.

 

[Hollywood D]

The fly traps that you add water to work pretty well, but you don't want one in your garage. The stench that they generate to attract flies is not something you want to be close to.

Those things smell like death. We have a bunch out by the horse stalls. If you get close enough, it will make you gag. Catches a **** load of flies though.

 

[Hubmonkey]

I have a BugAssault 2.. Work at close ranges for flys but don't bother shooting wasps with it.. just makes them mad.

Hub