Fly Traps
The most common type of fly found in and around homes is the house fly. Scientifically known as Musca domestica, the house fly takes up about ninety percent of all fly types that are found in human habitats.
While these flies may not directly affect you through the usual insect behavior of biting or feeding off their hosts; these nevertheless pose great health risks since they are a known vector or carrier of a number of diseases affecting humans.
This is why it is important to eliminate them the minute they start showing up around your house. You can use a number of devices to get rid of them, including fly traps.
Brief Info on House Flies
House flies tend to gravitate towards dirty things – extremely dirty and smelly things, particularly fecal matter and rotten food; this is why you would most commonly find them lurking inside garbage bins.
A female house fly can lay up to five hundred eggs and these eggs start hatching the following day. They become maggots and you can also see these crawling on rotten matter to feed.
After about a week, the maggots start to metamorphose into pupae; and then after some time, they become adult flies. After about one day and a half, the female is ready to reproduce. Mating usually only happens once and then the female fly stores the male sperm for repeated reproduction.
Fly Traps
These dirty, little, disease-carrying creatures can be caught and eliminated with the use of fly traps. There are both ready-made traps available in supermarkets and there also homemade traps that you can use.
The usual fly trap looks a bit like a beehive and it is infused with a special chemical that lures the flies to the trap. Once they take the bait, they will get trapped into the beehive-shaped container.
You can use these traps both indoors and outdoors.
On the other hand, you can also make your own trap. Take two plastic bottles – soda bottles will do – and take out the labels. Cut out the top part of the bottle, below the narrow neckline and then use a puncher to put one hole on each side of the bottle.
Put your bait inside the bottom part of the bottle. You can use raw meat soaked in beer or you can also use rotten fruits. Place the top part of the bottle, inverted, inside the other half of the container. Put a string inside the holes to create a hanger.
Hang the trap on a tree branch – high enough not to be reached by rats or young children and then simply wait for the flies to take the bait.
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