Here are several effective and natural ways to get rid of house flies outside and inside your home.
What Causes Flies?
Why do you have so many flies in your house all of a sudden? Flies are creatures of opportunity with a great sense of smell. A warm place with rotting, decomposing food, ripe fruits (fruit flies), pet feces, or used diapers are the literal breeding grounds for flies. To get rid of flies in your home fast, find the fly nest in your house and eliminate the source attracting the flies.
Indoors
Inside your home, there are several areas where flies would love to inhabit: garbage cans, sink garbage disposal drain, or ripening fruit on your counter. Keep windows closed, ensure screens are secured with no cracks or rips, and don’t leave the door open longer than necessary.
Outdoors
Garbage cans, compost piles, animal feces, and outdoor lights are irresistible to flies. Homesteaders, backyard farms, or rural home environments are more prone to outdoor home infestations, with more sources for flies to flock to. Secure garbage can covers and pick up animal wastes. If a compost pile is giving you a fly problem, consider a closed compost bin to reduce flies from assembling, or put your pile or garbage cans near plants like mint, basil, and lavender that make smells that will keep flies away or get rid of flies naturally. Also, turn off outdoor lights or put them on a motion sensor when not in use. Be sure to label your fly repellent spray, so others know what it is. And store it out of the reach of children and pets.
