How to Repel or Drive Flies Away
There is nothing more annoying than flies in summer. They have always been old visitors of restaurants and places with food, where they are always present but they are never welcome.
Homemade Tips to Drive Flies Away
There are many natural and homemade remedies that can be used to repel or drive flies away.
Fly Traps
- In this option what you need to do is to place little pieces of banana at the bottom of a bowl or plastic container with a funnel. Flies will enter the bowl but they will not be able to go out. This is a useful trap to eradicate them later. For instance, you can add boiling water in the funnel.
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- Although it is not very hygienic and attractive to look at, the following method to repel and eradicate flies is the one with adhesive tapes. You can make sticky papers using common paper wet with some of the following mixtures:
1- Mix 2 tablespoons of linseed oil, 2 tablespoons of honey and 8 tablespoons of resin.
2- Mix six tablespoons of castor oil with 13 tablespoons of resin. Then, place the mixture on the sticky paper.
3- Mix 15 tablespoons of resin, 10 tablespoons of linseed oil and ½ teaspoon of yellow wax.
"One of the options to drive flies away is to place bunches of mint and common rue in doors and windows."
By this way, flies will get trapped in this sticky paper "traps" due to the smell.
Tips to Drive Flies Away
- One of the options to drive flies away is to place bunches of mint and common rue in doors and windows. Also you can place a piece of lemon with many cloves to eradicate them. With these bad odors, flies will drive out of the house.
- Furthermore, placing glasses of water with coriander can also drive flies away. It seems that this "perfume" helps insects go away. Other homemade remedies to drive flies away are garlic and citric smells or some smoke flavorings in the place will drive flies away, such as incense.
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- Finally, the most used and effective method to drive flies out of the house is to hang plastic bags filled with water in different places of the house. The "logic" explanation is that as insects have compound eyes, reflected light on the plastic bags with water makes them glare. Also, you can place Cd´s instead of plastic bags.
Beyond the truthfulness of these explanations, we should try these homemade remedies to repel and drive flies away forever.
