[sokel]

Is it just up here or is there an excessive amount of flies all over the country this year ?
we have always had the odd fly indoors during the summer months and kill them with the electric fly bat but at the moment its like having a game of tennis trying to keep on top of them 
Its not just us either as we have friends in cumbria/other parts of Northumberland and Co Durham all having the same problem

[jaykay]

The flies are horrible at the moment.

I bought a couple of Redtop flytraps and they really have made a difference in the byre and yard.

[Clarebelle]

Same here, bought a red top fly trap for the garden and it has been amazing. Hardly any flies at all coming in the house and no problems with them in the animal hutches. Now if only they can do one for wasps!!

[Bionic]

There was another post on the same topic a couple of weeks ago. Yes lots of lies here too although they seem to have sropped off a bit now that we have some rain.
For the kitchen I have one of those horrible bead (well mine is bamboo) blinds across the door. Might not be the nicest thing, especially as it keeps getting caught up, but it does lessen the amount of flies inside.

[Fowgill Farm]

Further down in N Yorks we're overrun with the blighters too, fly papers hanging everywhere, have took to daubing some of the pigs with yellow flystrike cream to keep 'em off, they look like punk rockers! but it does the trick. Think its all the humid weather we've been having.
mandy

[Fleecewife]

So there's an advantage to living on a windy hilltop      No more flies than usual here but there are two wasp nests outside our living room windows, one on each side of the house (means we have to keep the windows closed)    But there's even an upside to all the wasps - this is the first year for a while that we've had a full goosegog crop, as they have eaten all the sawfly larvae which normally take every last leaf off the bushes.   So today I'm making gooseberry jam and spicy chutney 

[Bionic]

But there's even an upside to all the wasps - this is the first year for a while that we've had a full goosegog crop, as they have eaten all the sawfly larvae which normally take every last leaf off the bushes.   So today I'm making gooseberry jam and spicy chutney 

Goosegogs, YUK..... no wasp upside for me 

[Fleecewife]

But there's even an upside to all the wasps - this is the first year for a while that we've had a full goosegog crop, as they have eaten all the sawfly larvae which normally take every last leaf off the bushes.   So today I'm making gooseberry jam and spicy chutney 

Goosegogs, YUK..... no wasp upside for me 

 
       how can you not like goosegogs Sally?   Life is just so bland without them 

[Pedwardine]

Yup I posted about the darned flies a couple of weeks ago. Have since bought a great big 40w zapper. That crackling sound is bliss. Very few are braving it in our place now. Wonder why there've been so very many?