The Year of the Fly
Filed Under (General) by cranst on 24-05-2006
Every year it seems that we have a single insect that has become overpopulated. One year it was ants, the next crickets, then love bugs and so on. Well, this year, it seems flies are the predominant insect. This makes eating outside almost impossible without being attacked, not literally, by these flying pests. I assume they must smell the food because they really don’t bother us until the food is out. This makes me wonder if I still worked in restaurants and came home smelling like food, would they eat me alive? Anyway, at least 3 each day find their way into our home, which is all the more pestering. Anyone out there know of a good way to keep flies away from the home? Is this just a southern thing, a Texas thing, or perhaps just a Houston thing? I don’t know, but I don’t like it.
Apparently, many people are trying this baggie method of repellent. They are filling sandwich bags half full with water and hanging this bags where they want the flies not to go. Here is a link to HGTV’s article on this: HGTV Fly Repellent
We are having the same problem at our house, and we live about 30 min away from you. I’ve also heard the same thing from our neighbors.
One year I’ll have like a million flies all over, and then the next year I’ll only have one fly… One … really … annoying… fly.
Then again, the years when there is only one fly, there are about a billion hairy black spiders hanging around the house. I don’t think I need to say how much I love spiders.