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Voted : Fly tape.
I use fly tape for flies when I get them. As long as I keep the chicken coop clean and their waste composted, I don't have much of a problem with them. Fruit flies get bad if I have fresh fruit in the house, but the fly paper usually takes care of them.
We have those big cockroaches and wood roaches too that come in from the woods and the pine trees sometimes. As long as we kill them when we see them and don't keep garbage in the house, we never have a problem with them.
A lot of herbs and flowers will keep some insects away if planted around the house. Basil is good for keeping mosquitoes away. Tossing a sprig of it on the BBQ pit when cooking out helps a lot sometimes.
Scorpions are another story. They come inside to escape the heat at times and I've yet to find anything to keep them out. Spiders I don't mind as long as they aren't poisonous. Same with lizards (Green Anoles). As long as they stay near the windows where the house plants are at, they're more than welcome. We get snakes too on a rare occasion, but I usually toss them outside. They're rat snakes, so I hate to kill them.
For mice and rats, I have cats. I refuse to poison them because they sometimes make their way out before they die and the wildlife like hawks and the medium-sized carnivores eat them and get sick. And I don't really care for trapping them and having to deal with their little stinky corpses. lol
The farmers around here use these gallon bottles with some type of bait in them. The flies fly in the lid after the bait and can't get back out. They stink to high heaven though, so it might not be something you want too close to your house. They're great for barns or stables though.
Voted : Plastic bags filled with water (for wasp)
Take a plastic bag (like a baggy or a big sandwich bag or freezer bag with a ziplock). Fill it with water, seal it, and then tie a string around it and hang it over your door (use several for all the doors and windows). It looks wierd, but ,for some reason, wasp pick that bag filled with water up as a hornets nest, and they won't come near it. Keeps them away from your house all spring and summer. I found out about this trick while my mom was in a nursing home recovering from a stroke. They had a lot of wasp around that area, and they used bags filled with water over the doors to keep out the wasp. Sounds weird, and it looks weird, but it works.
Voted : Plastic bags filled with water (for wasp)
This is a weird...
I make a delivery to a high school cafeteria and when i get to the entrance way, they have this Zip-Loc bag filled with water hanging there.
Well, I finally asked them this past Wednesday, What the bag of water was for. They told me it was to keep out Flies. They also said it really works. They told me that they are not allowed to use pesticides. So they use the bag of water and it does work. They said it cut down the flies by 95% - 98% that once came flying in.
^Interesting. I hadn't heard about it working with flies too, but I've been using the water bags for about 4 years, and ,come to think of it, we don't get many flies around here either. Guess the bags will work for anything that fears hornets. Incidently, I've never seen a hornet around here. Just wasps and bees, and, since I began using water bags, it's just bees.
^ I've heard of it used for flies too. My mother first saw it in the window of the drive-through tobacco store she goes to. She asked the lady what it was and she told her that it kept flies away.
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