Indoor Fly Trap Help

[Slimy Time]

So my place has been plagued by flies coming in from the cold and recent storm two days ago. As much as I may like to stand there with my fly swatter and rack up a double digit kill streak (think I'm up to the 20s today). That's not viable.

Anyone have some home remedies to catch these bastards? I have already tried the "take a plastic bottle, fill it with sweet things, cover with plastic wrap and poke holes into it". Hasn't worked.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Buy those sticky tapes? Get a lizard? Use a bug-zapping light?

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Raid.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

I Thought you were asking advise about growing one of these...

Buy some spiders and release them into you house. They love flies and will do the job for free.

 

[XANA]

I second the glue fly traps. Prep the raid bottle and make sure attractants like food and dirty dishes are taken care of.

If nothing else, borrow a friend's reptile collection and let them loose. The problem will be solved in an hour.

 

[MysticLord]

Make a coke bottle fly trap.

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I but some beer and leftover food in it, left it overnight. All the flies were gone.

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

We always used the adhesive fly paper. Clean your place, hang up at least one in every effected room, go on a day trip. Come back, they're mostly gone. If that didn't do it, that usually meant that they were reproducing out of sight on something that fell or died on an odd place.

 

[Marche]

Invest in spiders to eat the flies.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

You need to clean up any area with food or trash in it to make sure they aren't breeding, for starters. You'll know it when you see it.

They like light sources, so you should turn off most lights and see if you can gather them into one place at night. Or at the windows during the day. Place the sticky papers near there or hit them with a handheld vacuum.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

I have to kill every single one of mine with an electric fly swatter, none of these sticky traps worked for me and caught 0 flies, literally not even one fly got stuck to 4 different traps. I'm sooner thinking about how well my windows and doors are sealed for them to be getting in like this.

 

[Secret Messages]

sticky traps don’t work, spiders are the only solution OP

 

[I've Seen Some Shit]

Get a small container, I would suggest no bigger than an ash tray.
You're gonna need the following ingredients:
-Rubbing alcohol
-Dish detergent
-Honey
-Maple syrup
-Apple cider vinegar
-A sweet smelling hand sanitizer
Mix all of them thoroughly in the container. It'll be a thick, brown substance. Make sure it doesn't get too close to the top of the container. Place near where you see the highest population of flies. No lid or covering.
Flies are lured to the various sweet scents. They land on the substance to eat the sweet-smelling stuff. They get stuck in the thick honey, syrup, and detergent but don't notice until it's too late. They start to scoop up and eat some - they end up ingesting detergent, hand sanitizer, and rubbing alcohol that poisons them, while the vinegar tears apart their insides in two ways (the acids break down their organs, and because they can't burp the gas build-up causes multiple ruptures inside of them).
Within three days, you're gonna have a fucking prehistoric dinosaur tarpit graveyard of flies, which is kind of metal. Only issue is once that shit dries, it's thick and you basically have to carve it out and let the container be disinfected (bleach rinse, sit in hot soapy water for at least a day is about the bare minimum) before you go for a second go around. Just once killed a severe fly problem I had entirely, but if it's bad enough a few rounds of it might be necessary.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

"a thing of sticky/sweet stuff" you guys are hilarious. how many of you have said this, and OP already tried it lol.
you guys are throwing away all your good human food just trying to catch these flies.
how would you take care of a possum?

 

[I've Seen Some Shit]

Unless your house is full of festering corpses, you literally do not need anything more complex than a small container of sticky, sweet-smelling poisons. They're flies, they're not exactly complex. You also neglected to consider that the only lure-based trap he used wasn't even an actual trap, it just sounds like he made them a personal buffet.

 

[Mr. Bung]

The is all really helpful info for when Summer rolls around again. Been getting flies like crazy and flyswatters suck unless you catch the fuckers landing on a hard solid surface, but then you get fly guts.

 

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[XYZpdq]

I usually leave a few fly ribbons up. They work pretty good.

 

[Slimy Time]

Thanks for all the advice, been very helpful. I've construct a few bottle traps indoors made of sweet things, which has had some success. For the outside area I've used the same, but with eggs and water left in the sun.