How Can You Naturally Get Rid of Pesky Flies?

[wildman]

I didn't read anything about occupants in the specifications for the job.

Russ, you got my vote for the funniest. I laughed out loud at that one.

 

[Zenparticle]

I notice they end up by the windows or doors. I usually just wait for them to go towards an exit and then open it and sort of shoo them out. This way I don't have to worry about splatter mist of fly guts all over the place.

 

[rootX]

Has anyone tried vacuum cleaner to kill flies/rats/anything

 

[tribdog]

Has anyone tried vacuum cleaner to kill flies/rats/anything

I've never tried a vacuum but I've gone the other direction. I had a pump bb gun and I would pump it up and not load it. if you get close and shoot the bugs the air would blow them up.
Edit: Blow them up like explode, not blow them up like a balloon.

 

[Evo]

Has anyone tried vacuum cleaner to kill flies/rats/anything

It won't kill them, it will just suck them inside the vacuum cleaner. I guess if you leave them in there long enough they will die. If you vacuum up bugs, then you have a bag/cannister full of bugs, and you should throw it out before they crawl out.

 

[Moonbear]

Has anyone tried vacuum cleaner to kill flies/rats/anything

I think the vacuum would cause a lot more damage than a flyswatter or shoe or magazine when you swat them. Besides, it's kind of hard to aim well with the vacuum while swinging it at them.

 

[Evo]

I think the vacuum would cause a lot more damage than a flyswatter or shoe or magazine when you swat them. Besides, it's kind of hard to aim well with the vacuum while swinging it at them.

I actually did try to kill a cricket once by trying to smush it with the vacuum. It didn't work.

 

[wolram]

I found an easy way to kill the little bs, i dropped a beef stock cube on the floor, and thought i better wash it before use, but washing made it all gooey, so i put it in one of those tin foil trays one gets a take away in, within seconds there were two flies sucking on the stock cube, so i snuck up on them with a piece of cling film and sealed them in, but then how to kill them?
i ran the hot tap and filled a bowel with very hot water and put the tin foil tray in it, it floated of course but the flies soon died.
The best thing is this trap is reusable.

 

[Evo]

When I was little I would make tiny "cakes' of flour and sugar in tiny tinfoil pans and leave them in the sun to "bake". When I would return, there would be dozens of dead flies stuck in it.

 

[BobG]

i ran the hot tap and filled a bowel with very hot water and put the tin foil tray in it, it floated of course but the flies soon died.
The best thing is this trap is reusable.

This part sounds pretty scary.

 

[Evo]

I'm wondering whose bowel it was.

 

[lisab]

I'm wondering whose bowel it was.

...eeeewww...

 

[wolram]

I'm wondering whose bowel it was.

A dyslexics.

 

[Redbelly98]

So it was really an elbow?

 

[wolram]

So it was really an elbow?

Pheasant plucker

 

[BobG]

So it was really an elbow?

 

[Kurdt]

Pheasant plucker

That was my pub quiz team name. Now who was his son again?

 

[tribdog]

That was my pub quiz team name. Now who was his son again?

One of the Smother's brothers?

 

[rootX]

Just spotted a rat in my room! It living in our house for more than 3/4 months now. We cleaned all our downstairs hoping that it would die but it found its way to my messy room (It disappeared for a month after that).

I sealed my room and moved to another room door hoping that rat wouldn't find any way out of it while I am planning to kill it somehow . I think it's trapped now. All I need is vacuum cleaner, some books, shoes etc.

It would have been disaster if it had moved to another room which is all messed up with my stuff I will be taking to the university .

 

[porums]

Just spotted a rat in my room! It living in our house for more than 3/4 months now. We cleaned all our downstairs hoping that it would die but it found its way to my messy room (It disappeared for a month after that).

I sealed my room and moved to another room door hoping that rat wouldn't find any way out of it while I am planning to kill it somehow . I think it's trapped now. All I need is vacuum cleaner, some books, shoes etc.

It would have been disaster if it had moved to another room which is all messed up with my stuff I will be taking to the university .

You don't use mousetraps

 

[rootX]

You don't use mousetraps

Didn't work. It's a clever rat. It disappeared again!

 

[porums]

Will you be sad if I say it is a stupid rat ?

 

[Redbelly98]

Didn't work. It's a clever rat. It disappeared again!

You need a rat trap, not a mouse trap. Same thing, only twice as big.

 

[rootX]

Will you be sad if I say it is a stupid rat ?

I wonder if it's stupid.

It came again into my room and I have sealed it again with me inside. But, why it comes only at my sleeping time It chose my room again! I think if I were it I wouldn't have made mistake of coming to this room again. I spent 2 hours yesterday and 2 hours today trying to haunt her down lol.
It run amazingly fast and escapes every kind of trap.

But, I have just one more day left

 

[NeoDevin]

I spent 2 hours yesterday and 2 hours today trying to haunt her down lol.

I didn't know you were a ghost, maybe if you tried hunting instead of haunting, it would work better.

 

[wolram]

As i am the only bad speller on this forum i think RootX meant he was trying to scare the rat to death.

 

[out of whack]

It run amazingly fast and escapes every kind of trap.

I can help, I have experience killing rats. I kill one every other week or so next to my composting box. New families seem to migrate regularly in my neighborhood so it's a case of ongoing prevention to keep them out of the garage and the house. It's true that they are clever and can avoid the kill section of a rat trap. You have to force them to access the trap from the proper direction otherwise the trap will fail.

First thing: make sure you use a rat trap, not a mouse trap. Even so, they still come in two sizes: cheaper and smaller ones from the dollar store, and the ones that work. Use one that works because a big rat will survive the cheap one. You want an effective, clean and painless kill for your sake and the rat's.

Then, to force the rat to approach the trap from the kill end and not the other end or the side, place the trap inside a narrow passage made of whatever you have on hand. Bricks work well, short pieces of lumber, anything heavy. I built myself a wooden box for this because it's a permanent trap, but see what else you can find on your side. Make sure there is only one opening for the rat to go inside. Cover this "tunnel" to prevent access to the bait from the top, making sure that it's high enough for the trap to close without hitting the top. Oh, and the tunnel must be right next to the wall where rats travel, not in the middle of the room.

The bait that works best for me is peanuts in the shell. It doesn't dry out so the trap can remain effective for weeks. Now you have to teach the rat that this bait is good. Pry up the small metal sliver that's on the trap trigger and poke one peanut into it. The rat has to wiggle it a bit to take it out, which triggers the trap. Then leave two or three peanuts just outside the trap and on the way to the trigger. One of them should be readily accessible to the rat from outside the tunnel. They will taste it first and learn how good peanuts are. Then they will look for more inside the tunnel, all the way to the one on the trigger. Last meal.

 

[Moonbear]

But, why it comes only at my sleeping time

Rats are nocturnal. If there's a really easy food supply near their sleeping area, they might get a little snack during the day, but mostly, they spend the daytime doing a lot of sleeping and the nighttime running around looking for food and mates.

If your room is so messy that a rat can hide in there, have you considered just cleaning your room?

Rats and mice don't bother me too much, so content to chase after them when I spot one and live capture it under a bucket or box then transport it back outside. Then again, I've really only done this with mice. I've never had a rat get inside my house. The ones around here are happy to stay outside...they're the cute little brown ones that feed off the grains out in the cattle pastures nearby, not the black mean ones that dumpster dive.

Though, my boyfriend was laughing at me when we were walking around the parks in NYC at night and I spotted all the rats scurrying around cleaning up the food people dropped during the day. I was sitting there saying, "Awww...look, it's a cute rat! Oh, and another! I guess it's dinner time." He's definitely more of a "city boy" who is not fond of wildlife such as rats and raccoons. If I ever convince him to move away from the city with me, I know I'll be in charge of pest control.

Anyway, listen to out of whack's suggestions. Clearly he's an experienced rat catcher. All he needs is a pipe to play.

 

[rootX]

As i am the only bad speller on this forum i think RootX meant he was trying to scare the rat to death.

I wish that were possible.

I can help, I have experience killing rats. I kill one every other week or so next to my composting box. New families seem to migrate regularly in my neighborhood so it's a case of ongoing prevention to keep them out of the garage and the house. It's true that they are clever and can avoid the kill section of a rat trap. You have to force them to access the trap from the proper direction otherwise the trap will fail.

First thing: make sure you use a rat trap, not a mouse trap. Even so, they still come in two sizes: cheaper and smaller ones from the dollar store, and the ones that work. Use one that works because a big rat will survive the cheap one. You want an effective, clean and painless kill for your sake and the rat's.

Then, to force the rat to approach the trap from the kill end and not the other end or the side, place the trap inside a narrow passage made of whatever you have on hand. Bricks work well, short pieces of lumber, anything heavy. I built myself a wooden box for this because it's a permanent trap, but see what else you can find on your side. Make sure there is only one opening for the rat to go inside. Cover this "tunnel" to prevent access to the bait from the top, making sure that it's high enough for the trap to close without hitting the top. Oh, and the tunnel must be right next to the wall where rats travel, not in the middle of the room.

The bait that works best for me is peanuts in the shell. It doesn't dry out so the trap can remain effective for weeks. Now you have to teach the rat that this bait is good. Pry up the small metal sliver that's on the trap trigger and poke one peanut into it. The rat has to wiggle it a bit to take it out, which triggers the trap. Then leave two or three peanuts just outside the trap and on the way to the trigger. One of them should be readily accessible to the rat from outside the tunnel. They will taste it first and learn how good peanuts are. Then they will look for more inside the tunnel, all the way to the one on the trigger. Last meal.

Thanks, I will try that.

If your room is so messy that a rat can hide in there, have you considered just cleaning your room?

Yep!

Rats and mice don't bother me too much, so content to chase after them when I spot one and live capture it under a bucket or box then transport it back outside.

That's what I was trying to do.
I sat there silently watching it coming out. I just couldn't kill it or let my parents do the job who would kill it by any mean lol. That was too much - battling with ethics at 1 AM .

 

[Gear300]

-Buy 8 packs of cheese cubes
-Scatter them around the floor along with a bunch of mouse traps using only 7 of the packs
-Place a few of the cubes on some of the mouse traps
-Wait for results while eating the remaining pack of cheese cubes