Mothaberkin flies on my mothaberkin porch!

I’ve never had this problem before, but these shiny happy people are berkeleyin up my happy place. 

Not smelling anything dead. No “food source.” And yes, I washed my hootus.

We bought a little fly-trap thing with stinky stuff, but the problem persists.

Gross-count fly paper? Fire?

Google Bug-a-salt. You're welcome 

I use these around my chicken coupe (LOL) with great success!

The scent lure does stink a bit, so there's that....

https://www.lowes.com/pd/BLACK-FLAG-Disposable-Fly-Trap/3818465

Not to mention the aesthetic er... impact....  of a bag of dead flies.

Very classy!

But it works!

Edit:  Just re-read your post.  Is that what you've tried already? 

Apparently your porch is the stinkiest thing around.  Get something stinkier and put it at the far corner of your lot?  Chickens?

Maybe it is your hootus...

You could make a giant hootus out of flypaper…probably won’t resolve your insect problem but you might meet a very interesting person.

Seriously; nothing stinky. The gril is out here, but the grill has always been out here. It has been REALLY dry for weeks. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Fill zip loc sandwich bags with water. Hang in sunlight on or near porch. The movement and prism like qualities of the light passing through the bag repels the flies.

And just for good measure, wash your hootus again.

In reply to EastCoastMojo :

I agree on the ziplocks.  This is a time tested method while sailboat racing.  Often, on slow races (no wind) bitting flies will seem to arrive.  They tend to gather down below in the cabin.  Hang a ziplock filled with water helps drive them out of the cabin.  

EastCoastMojo said:

Fill zip loc sandwich bags with water. Hang in sunlight on or near porch. The movement and prism like qualities of the light passing through the bag repels the flies.

And just for good measure, wash your hootus again.

So flies have an aversion to disco balls?  Sounds like a load of hooey to me. 

But good to see you in a thread.  How ya been?

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

There are no flies at the disco! 

In reply to EastCoastMojo :

Dang!  You have a point.  I always attributed that to their taste in music.

Cut the top out of a two liter right where it goes full width. Invert top into bottom. Load up with a little water and some meat bits to lure the flys in. Hang near the area you want cleared of flies. 

ultraclyde said:

Google Bug-a-salt. You're welcome 

I have two. My job after work is great. Assasinating flies. I’m like Dale Gribble. 

Stampie said:

Cut the top out of a two liter right where it goes full width. Invert top into bottom. Load up with a little water and some meat bits to lure the flys in. Hang near the area you want cleared of flies. 

I tried this several years ago. It didnt solve my fly issue but it turned into a terrifying terrarium. Flys laid eggs inside, which became maggots, which turned into flies, which died and allowed other flies to lay eggs and ....it became self perpetuating. A cloud of flies above a seething mass of maggots, all in a clear container hanging from the eave. Plus it smelled awful as a bonus.

Stop cleaning your hootus and clean your grill out. It’s the grease and bits of whatever charred food is in there. 

In reply to ultraclyde :

I guess I forgot to add swap out before it becomes self perpetuating. I did have one do that. Kinda cool in a sick gross way. 

It’s not your hootus, it’s your bungholio that’s the problem.  

EastCoastMojo said:

And just for good measure, wash your hootus again.

Daily. Sometimes more. Soap is such a slut.

What's under or around your porch?

EastCoastMojo said:

Fill zip loc sandwich bags with water. Hang in sunlight on or near porch. The movement and prism like qualities of the light passing through the bag repels the flies.

And just for good measure, wash your hootus again.

Very common in the rural areas i work in. Dunno why it works, but it does. 

Pole barns and large open air shelters hang them in strings down to about a foot above head level, in addition to the high bags. Seems too far away from tbe ground it stops working ....

914Driver said:

What's under or around your porch?

Meth labs? (JOKES)

That was my first thought. I don’t *smell* any dead things, but maybe there’s a dead thing.

I’ll leave the bag-hangin for the snipe-hunters, thank you. The ceiling is already haint blue, so at least there’s no witches on the porch...unless the flies are tiny haint blue-immune witches. berkeley!

My mother seems to have found a very effective fly trap, but it smells like death and frankly bothers me more than the flies do.

In reply to poopshovel again :

Fan