Flys in the garage

[verbalkint99]

So last year was my first summer in the new home. However, anytime I was out in the garage flys would come in a buzz around as soon as the doors were opened

It got annoying real fast! I am dreading it happening again, and was wondering if anyone else has/had this problem. And if any of you have suggestions to keep them away.

Thanks

 

[58Yeoman]

We have horse/deer flies here as big as airplanes. I bought some Golden Malrin to set out to see if they will eat it and die. In the house, we would get those damn little fruit flies or gnats buzzing around us. About a month ago, we bought a pitcher plant at a nursery, and haven't been bugged with the little critters since. Coincidence? We don't know. But, I will put the pitcher plant outside when the weather warms up to see if it helps with the fly population outside.

 

[matt_i]

Fly paper? I think you can get it on Amazon if not locally.

 

[stimpy]

we used gold marlin on the PIG farm , stuff is excellent , and we made a feeder to keep it from getting wet and eaten by birds from a butter bowl upside down , and the lid was nailed to a piece of plywood which was secured to a post top ( keep it some distance away from the house ) also make sure your trash cans are dry inside and away from the door , a little DE or kitty little prevents maggots from forming in the liquids in the bottom

 

[HOTFR8]

If the weather is warm they do not like a fan moving the air. Have a good fan blow over the area you work in the most. You can also try letting the fan blow some fly spray about.

 

[DougWil]

I use Rescue fly bags.
Super effective on house and horse flies. Really stinks so you want to hang them away from your nose.
In summer a big bag is filled with thousands of dead flies in a week or 10 days.

Deer flies, it will not trap and the only thing I have found that is effective is covering a 4' fluorescent light with clear plastic and Tanglefoot.
When the deer flies get too annoying I shut the garage doors, turn out the lights and on the bug light trap. Within minutes almost every deer fly is caught.
Repeat every few hours.

 

[Bob Joyce]

Die,DamnFly,Die! Check this link out. More about killing flies than I've ever seen.
http://www.getridoffliesguide.com/

 

[CJ7VFR]

...anytime I was out in the garage flys would come in a buzz around as soon as the doors were opened...It got annoying real fast!...

On the opposite side of the fence of trying to kill the flies is preventing them from coming in when you have the garage door open. There are a few places that make what is basically a large screen that attaches to the garage door opening, helping to keep them out while you work inside. Here is a picture of what I am talking about:

It makes your garage into a big screened in room. The screen goes up and comes down pretty quick, and there is even a version that has a seam running vertically down the middle that you can push open and walk thru. The seam is held together with some magnetic strips so that they close back together automatically after you walk thru.

I don't know if anything like that would work for you, but it's out there. I am thinking of getting two of them for my two car garage, because I also like to work out and have the doors open when the weather is nice. But it seems like as soon as it starts to get dark, and I turn on any lights, holy cow! Flies and bugs everywhere!!

And the worst is when I am working on something that takes requires both hands, and one of those damn knats gets into my ear!

Jim

 

[Jerriffic]

This won't keep them away, but once their in lookout.

 

[kelpaso1]

Garage door screens. Best $500 I ever spent

http://www.garagescreens.webs.com/

 

[Gidge]

Another vote for fly paper.
How soft we've become --can you imagine the volume of flies 100+ years ago when horse dung was all over the street and window screens had not yet been invented ?

 

[steve308]

nothing beats Garage Frog

 

[Falcon67]

IMHO, not a damn thing you can do about that. For sport, turn off the lights and open one window - they will flock to the light. Then hose 'em down with Yard Guard. You can get 10~20 at a hit, saves on bug spray.

 

[67CarGuy]

No need to spend $500 on special custom screens - a couple rolls of fiberglass window screen will work, and they won't scratch your car when you drive through them. Leave 'em down all summer long. Worked for me for several years before I could seal the garage up better. Also keeps birds from flying in.

If the flies are already in, fire up the shopvac, throw in some mothballs, and go to town!

 

[M-technik-3]

Spider in the corner of the garage. Fly traps though are great.

 

[Moose97]

I have used for the past 2 summers the garage door screens as mentioned above. Harbor Freight sells them and they are pretty inexpensive. They really help keep the problem down.

 

[Zeke]

Spider in the corner of the garage. Fly traps though are great.

You'd need a lot of spiders. On the Rescue bag thing, I had a version of that and although it trapped hundreds of flies, I think it attracted them from further than normal. IOW, I had more free flies with the thing than w/o.

So yeah, hang that sucker far away.

We've gotten to the point that we don't have flies nor many mosquitoes. Why? Well the drought has brought hundreds of coyotes into the city. They have killed all the roaming cats and some dogs. The cats ate the birds. Now the birds are all over the place and they eat flies on the fly.

So I feed the birds.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

So I feed the birds.

Keep your cars under wraps.

 

[DougWil]

You'd need a lot of spiders. On the Rescue bag thing, I had a version of that and although it trapped hundreds of flies, I think it attracted them from further than normal. IOW, I had more free flies with the thing than w/o.

I think the big bags hold something like 40,000 flies!
I go through 2 big bags every 10 days when it is hot and the flies are hatching.

If I kill 80K flies within sniffing distance every 2 weeks or so, I am OK with that.

 

[Tim_P]

I did not realize how lucky I am apparently, I do not have a fly problem here. Now birds on the other hand I have had a few fly in.

 

[Zeke]

I should have said, "I have more flies over at the bag than I've ever seen." It did attract them away from my work station. Whenever I open the lacquer thinner or something along that ilk, here come the bugs, not just flies.

You want to attract flies?

Just put some cat, dog or your shyte in it. Make a dozen.

 

[JerryC]

once they are in, and you want them dead.... If you have a window or windows clean them good and then spray them with a bug spray. Turn out the lights and the flies will head to the windows land on them and die. You could block all but one window and get them going to just that one to make cleanup easier.

I once had about hundred flies hatch in the house, never found the source, killed them all in one day using this method.

They literally dropped like flies.