Whether it’s a fly buzzing inside your house, around your face or over your food — they’re definitely a bother and unwanted insects that really need to die. I don’t know anybody that loves to live with flies but I know for sure that almost every household prefers a home free of flies.
This week we look at keeping your houses and kitchens clean of disease carrying flies. Here are tips to help the cause.
Website www.getridoffliesguide.com states there are four four major stages in the life cycle of a typical housefly. In the beginning of first stage, 150 eggs are laid in a moist environment (like garbage, composite or manure) where food is available in abundance.
Next, eggs began to hatch within a day and the larva feeds on the food for 5-14 days. After this, the larva crawls to some dry place to pupate. The pupae transforms to an adult after three-four weeks. Adult flies can live for about a month and during this time they can produce 500 to 2000 eggs.
It said flies are the carriers of very deadly diseases, they infest meat and other food items. A fly is a restless insect, it moves back and forth between food and filth and this helps it in spreading infections faster.
It is attracted to the food by its sense of smell, however it cannot eat solid food. When it reaches the food it vomits on the solid food and creates a solution of it, then sucks it and thus contaminates the food.
Here are ways to protect your family and house
The process of getting rid of flies can be divided into two stages:
Stage 1 (Fly control techniques) — primarily comprises of the methods that can be used to control the further growth of flies. In fly control techniques, we try to control the growth of flies by cleaning or rather destroying their breeding sources. This will help to stop any further growth of flies as after this they will have no place to lay eggs.
Stage 2 (Fly elimination techniques) — you will be left only with the adult flies since they now have no place to lay eggs. So the fly problem will get solved by killing these adult flies.
First of all identify the species of the fly that you mostly see in the infested area. Find the breeding source. Please note that such sources could be located up to 500 — 800 meters away from the place of infestation.
Step 3 Clean the breeding source after you have found a probable breeding source of those flies, clean it up. Wash fly specks off the walls, ground or floor with a borax and water solution. This removes the trace that flies leave to attract other flies to an area.
If it is near some garbage can, then it is better to cover it up and remove garbage at least 2 times per week. Insect repellents are handy in the house however regular daily cleaning is better.
