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How to catch houseflies?

The weather has finally warmed up here and now there plenty of super annoying houseflies. They’re way to fast to swat and have an annoying habit of landing on you.

I’ve tried Google’s suggestion of water/vinegar and a bit of dish soap in a bottle, but they don’t seem to go for it at all.

I’m up for trying anything, please make suggestions!

Edit: Thank you to all for your suggestions. So far I’ve tried the idea of spraying them with surface cleaner which appears to work well

BradleyUffner ,

My cats take care of most of them.

HowMany ,

Play wildly upbeat frantic fly punk music and when they’re all worn out from shaking their little fly asses - nab 'em.

VelvetStorm ,

If you want to swat them, you need to move your hand slowly at first. They seem to not notice or care if you move slowly and don’t cast a shadow over them as that will frighten them. I use these same techniques for macrophotography, and it works, but you have to be patient.

I could also recommend getting good at snaping towels. Once you get good at it and you can judge distances, you can hit flies mid-flight.

Or if you just want to buy something and have 50ish bucks to spend you can get this

www.bugasalt.com/pages/shop-collections#threefive

StaySquared ,

Has to be more vinegar supposedly but ick… smells horribly.

I just go the old fashion way, newspaper whack.

tottenham28 ,

I’ve been using these for mossies for years, I know it’s not the friendliest of routes but they are not exactly friends either.

Pacattack57 ,

Not sure what kind of beasts you have but some apple cider vinegar and dish soap works like a charm for me. Definitely need to find the source though. Usually it’s some old fruit that got left out somewhere.

13esq OP ,

The apple cider vinegar gets fruit flies but the house flies just aren’t interested.

techwithjake ,

I bought a couple of these for around the house. https://a.co/d/5vjsVs3 Works very well but mostly at night.

Also to make sure you regularly do the dishes, take out trash and clean up any food sources for the flies. After using the above and doing the above, mine went from insanity to maybe 1 or 2 around the house in about a week or two.

multifariace ,

I open a window and they fly to it. Then I shut them out.

HowMany ,

Fly strips work. They work even better after catching a few flies (I guess misery loves company!). They’re cheap too.

The vinegar thing is for fruit flies or gnats - it doesn’t really work on typical house flies.

Or… you could use a fly gun. … : D

CptEnder ,

Warning about those hanging fly traps. I used them and somehow the glue got aerosolized and spread to every surface of my apartment. I never no idea how this happened but everything I own was covered in brown sticky dots. It was a mother fucker to clean.

Vex_Detrause ,

If you want to catch then when they land you can slowly approach them with both hands like you’re gonna clap. They will try to avoid one hand and fly to the other hand and you can catch it.

Fan works. Bubble maker like the one on weddings can discourage fly and mosquitoes.

I use rubber band like on a rubber band pistols to shoot them when they land.

Let the friendly lizard and spiders stay around the house. They will help you get rid of them.

CaptainPedantic ,

Get a dish towel wet and use that to swat at the fly. The weight of the water and the extra length of the towel let’s you get it going faster than the fly can react.

SkavarSharraddas ,

Move your lightly cupped, relaxed hand behind the fly. Then suddenly accelerate and grab the fly that got startled into flying into your hand by the movement.

Waveform ,

A clear plastic cup and a paper card large enough to cover the opening… Wait for the fly to land on a window, and approach slowly with the cup while distracting them with your other hand. When close, cover the fly by pressing the cup on the window and slip the card underneath the opening. It helps if the fly has tired itself out first. Works well for all manner of bugs.

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