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Fly's

BobDanger
BobDanger Posts: 323
Fly's are incredible here this year. I cook in my gazebo and try my best to keep it clean but these bastages are driving me crazy. I've hung the fly paper (removed from photo cause full) but it's like emptying the ocean one bucket at a time. I'm concerned about spraying anything where I cook...but the bastages gotta go.

Pic of my cooking area.


Any remedies? 


Eastern Shore Virginia 

Medium & Mini Max
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  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    ColtsFan said:


    Get yourself a bug-a-salt. Ridiculous how much fun it is to shoot bugs 

    That's just one shot one kill, I need rapid fire. An I gotta zapper just like that one but these SOB's are fast.
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,428
    Where do you live, Bob?  I didn't move back to South Dakota when I finished my AF career largely on getting away from flies, and mostly mosquitoes.  I can step out of my kitchen to the back patio to fiddle with the egg for a few minutes, do not have to shut the door as there are just no flying insects around, occasionally a bee.  They do become a problem closer to the GSL/ salt marshes, but up on a bench to the Wasatch Mountains, just no flying bugs!  
     

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    "I mean, I don't just kill guys, I'm notorious for doing in houseplants."  - Maggie, Northern Exposure


  • TN_Egger
    TN_Egger Posts: 1,120
    Fly's what?
    Signal Mountain, TN
  • johnnyp
    johnnyp Posts: 3,932
    BobDanger said:
    Fly's are incredible here this year. I cook in my gazebo and try my best to keep it clean but these bastages are driving me crazy. I've hung the fly paper (removed from photo cause full) but it's like emptying the ocean one bucket at a time. I'm concerned about spraying anything where I cook...but the bastages gotta go.

    Pic of my cooking area.


    Any remedies? 


    Flying insects don’t like flying through wind.

    turn that fan on or install a ceiling fan. 
    XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA
  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    Botch said:
    Where do you live, Bob?  I didn't move back to South Dakota when I finished my AF career largely on getting away from flies, and mostly mosquitoes.  I can step out of my kitchen to the back patio to fiddle with the egg for a few minutes, do not have to shut the door as there are just no flying insects around, occasionally a bee.  They do become a problem closer to the GSL/ salt marshes, but up on a bench to the Wasatch Mountains, just no flying bugs!  
     


    I live on the Eastern Shore Virginia...bout a mile from the salt marsh. 

    Just some reason they are thick this year...
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    johnnyp said:
    BobDanger said:
    Fly's are incredible here this year. I cook in my gazebo and try my best to keep it clean but these bastages are driving me crazy. I've hung the fly paper (removed from photo cause full) but it's like emptying the ocean one bucket at a time. I'm concerned about spraying anything where I cook...but the bastages gotta go.

    Pic of my cooking area.


    Any remedies? 


    Flying insects don’t like flying through wind.

    turn that fan on or install a ceiling fan. 

    I here you...too cold for the fan today, and I do need a ceiling fan...had one but it rusted out.
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • Jupiter Jim
    Jupiter Jim Posts: 3,351
    I don't know why you have more this year and the only way I know of killing a lot of them is to use fly bait that you can get at most feed stores for farmers. I used it years ago when I had two dog in a outdoor dog run and the dog poop attracted fly's even though I cleaned it up every day, they would land on it and you could watch them die! It was a granule like fertilizer. I do know that as soon as they smell the smoke from the BGE they come a flying.  

    I'm only hungry when I'm awake!

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    West Jefferson NC Summer

  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    Might be because of the farm field behind my house.  They put down chicken manure several weeks ago but it has rained so much since, it all long gone.

    Just never seen it this bad.
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • Thomasc18
    Thomasc18 Posts: 197
    It always seems horrible this time of year
    Madison, AL
  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    I think JupiterJim is on spot, I never gave thought to the manure they put down in the field behind my house. Its just never been this bad. 

    Maybe because the wind has been blowing my way coming across the field for the last several days and the rain...anywho...I hate the bastages.

    Backyard a few minutes ago.

    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262
    @BobDanger

    can't help you with the flys, but wanted to compliment you on your property - looks very nice
    Phoenix 
  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    danv23 said:
    Rapid fire? No problem.  Drop a screw as it is in the "fire" position. Pump to your heart's delight as you don't have to pop it back to "fire" position, ever. 


    I like it...Ill just have to go and buy a couple pounds of salt.:)
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,428
    What's next, a bump stock?   =)
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    "I mean, I don't just kill guys, I'm notorious for doing in houseplants."  - Maggie, Northern Exposure


  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,125
    danv23 said:
    Rapid fire? No problem.  Drop a screw as it is in the "fire" position. Pump to your heart's delight as you don't have to pop it back to "fire" position, ever. 

    The most informative thing I’ve read on the forum in a while. It’s on like Donkey Kong! 


  • danv23
    danv23 Posts: 953
    danv23 said:
    Rapid fire? No problem.  Drop a screw as it is in the "fire" position. Pump to your heart's delight as you don't have to pop it back to "fire" position, ever. 

    The most informative thing I’ve read on the forum in a while. It’s on like Donkey Kong! 


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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    Worst I’ve ever seen it at this time of year. We have fly spray systems in all the barns and it’s not helping as much as normal. I can’t ever remember seeing flys on the boat but they were bothersome this weekend. Wetter and warmer than normal. 
  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,164
    When we sit around the outdoor table in the summer, we issue all a fly swatta....the worst is when one lands on your body. 
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 30,867
    Someone needs to invent a drone that just flies around autonomously swooping up and assassinating flies.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
    Someone needs to invent a drone that just flies around autonomously swooping up and assassinating flies.
    A bat, for example.
  • Find a couple of weekdays y’all aren’t using your outside space. Drop the spine of a spatchcock chicken or something sweet in a large trash can. Get a pack of glue fly traps. Stretch them all over like lattice work. 

    My neighbors don’t pick up their dog’s poop. Maggots and larvae were one side of the house last July. I did this and a week later it just kinda quit.

    "Brought to you by bourbon, bacon, and a series of questionable life decisions."

    South of Nashville, TN

  • DuckDogDr
    DuckDogDr Posts: 1,549
    First saw the headline and thought initially this was going to be a post about fly fishing tackle
  • BobDanger
    BobDanger Posts: 323
    DuckDogDr said:
    First saw the headline and thought initially this was going to be a post about fly fishing tackle

    Kinda is...just gotta put a hook thru em.
    Eastern Shore Virginia 

    Medium & Mini Max
  • Rascal
    Rascal Posts: 3,923
  • Ag83
    Ag83 Posts: 34
    Now I gotta go modify my bug-a-salt....be right back! =)
  • Markarm4119
    Markarm4119 Posts: 526
    Mild winter, lots of spring rain and adjacent fields fertilized with poop = fly nirvana.
    Bait and turn on the fan. Kill it and grilling suggestions will help also.
    LBGE, and just enough knowledge and gadgets to be dangerous .
    Buford,Ga.
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    Fly's are terrible.  Sounds like you need to treat the area with Ortho Bug B Gon.   

    Noticed multiple satellite dishes.  Do you work for NASA, by chance?
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  • Webass
    Webass Posts: 259

    I use these hanging in the back yard away from the deck.  Purchased at HD.  Doesn't completely eliminate but they catch a lot!

     

    Lenoir City, TN -  Bama fan in Tenn Vol's backyard. 

    LBGE, Weber Spirit 

  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,314
    North Alabama may as well be Ethiopia during Spring.  Once it gets super hot they disappear.  
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave