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Brenna 
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 7:02pm |
HELP! I'm sick of all the flies!
What are some natural remedies?? I've heard of vinegar - is it white vinegar and what do I do with it?
I'm going crazy here! 
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 My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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weegee
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Posted: 20 February 2009 at 7:05pm |
Heehee sounds familiar. I'd love to hear if anyone has any new suggestions but in the meantime you might like to check out the thread I started last year here 
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FreeSpirit
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Posted: 21 February 2009 at 7:42pm |
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Have you tried heating some teatree oil in your burner? (bit of a hippy myself) And some potted chrysanthemum's near doors or windows can help (contain pyrethrin in its natural state). um burning citronella candles... mint or basil repel flies ... grow a few venus fly traps (little boys will be fascinated by these! and they grow best if watered with rain water)... make fly traps - cut top end off fizzy bottle, put a little catfood in the bottom half, quarter fill with water, place top of bottle upside down in bottom half, tape or glue well. Fly is attracted to smelly food, flys in, can't find way out, drowns, MUAHAHAHA.
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Kellygirl
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Posted: 22 February 2009 at 7:03am |
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I am so sick of the flies and MOTHS!!!! I am actually looking forward to winter just so we don't have them in the house. It is driving me a wee bit insane.
How to get rid of them? No idea really, DH swats the flies and we squish the moths. HAHA, I know, how barbaric! LOL
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BabyOnBoard
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Posted: 22 February 2009 at 11:42pm |
I have a raid/rabocan automatic sprayer thingy (  sorry thats the best explaination I can give at 11:41pm) and it is all natural. . Better yet it does all the work as it just sits there. Fly spray makes me very very ill but this is awesome!
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Brenna
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Posted: 23 February 2009 at 9:11pm |
 Flutterby wrote:
Have you tried heating some teatree oil in your burner? (bit of a hippy myself) And some potted chrysanthemum's near doors or windows can help (contain pyrethrin in its natural state). um burning citronella candles... mint or basil repel flies ... grow a few venus fly traps (little boys will be fascinated by these! and they grow best if watered with rain water)... make fly traps - cut top end off fizzy bottle, put a little catfood in the bottom half, quarter fill with water, place top of bottle upside down in bottom half, tape or glue well. Fly is attracted to smelly food, flys in, can't find way out, drowns, MUAHAHAHA. |
Great ideas! Thanks  I read online to make a 'trap' by putting white wine in a saucer and adding dishwashing liquid. The flies like the wine so drink it, but the dish washing liquid poisons them so they die. Seemed to get a few of the buggers 
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Grrr, flies!!!!!!
