When you live in your own home, you can experience a number of surprises. One of these unexpected guests was flies!
Do you think that moving from the city to a rural community will take away the “charm” of the village? But no! That’s why we’re dealing with a plague of flies this season, which has been exacerbated by the unusual heat and seemingly endless warming. In addition, our new neighbors in the village started raising cattle, which only added to the “joy.”
Near our house, the horse riding school next door has also joined the production of organic waste. In short, we live in an old-fashioned neighborhood.
First, we tried covering all the windows with mosquito nets, hanging the doors with tulle and even hanging adhesive tapes that became real fly traps.
But as soon as the wind moved the curtains, the flies freely entered the house again.
In desperation, we decided to turn to chemicals. We went to the store and bought a “Dichlorvo Terminator,” but not even a direct hit from this cylinder stopped our uninvited guest beetles. Even the cheekiest fly came by and asked if we could spray some more of this “laughing gas.”
And then I remembered the old method: the newspaper. A large-scale hunt began with shouts of “MIL!” throughout the house, but strangely enough, the flies kept coming back.
Last year I already encountered a similar problem, and then clove oil, which we bought in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, came to the rescue. Unlike the usual diluted oils, this one was pure and concentrated.
After spraying clove oil on curtains and fly screens and placing cotton balls with oil near the windows, I noticed that the flies began to disappear. Little by little, the whole house was cleared of them.
In the end, the flies didn’t seem to like it and flew to more tolerant neighbors. Sorry, neighbors, nothing personal, just survival.
