How to Rid Your Home of Flies
By eHow Contributing Writer
Flies spread disease, contaminate food and can place human health at risk.
Instructions
Step 1
Keep flies out with barriers, your first and best line of defense. Screen all windows and doors. Seal and caulk all cracks and crevices.
Step 2
Remove all outside organic-waste piles, which can be used as breeding sites: dog feces, animal manures, piles of grass clippings. (Hot compost piles are inhospitable to breeding flies.) Keep garbage in a container with a tightly fitting lid.
Step 3
Put out traps - flypaper or sticky tape will catch a few flies. Use inverted cone traps to attract more flies with food bait.
Step 4
Remember that bait only works well if flies do not have access to other food sources. Place baits well away from eating areas.
Step 5
Cover and refrigerate leftovers.
Step 6
Use a flyswatter against the occasional fly that strays into the house.