Fly Pest Control Explained

Many flying insects that are a problem to homeowners are actually members of the fly family. The order “Diptera” includes all the flies, the gnats and mosquitoes. In addition to the hundreds of species of flies, moths (members of the Lepidoptera family) may be attracted by outdoor lights and become an occasional pest. Bees and wasps (Hymenoptera) may build nests on or near the house.

The bad news is that your pest control professional can do very little to control flying insects. In fact, our contract for pest control services states very specifically that we do not offer control of flying insects. That doesn’t mean that we will do nothing to help if you call, but it does mean that whatever help we can give will be limited in nature and that we cannot guarantee any particular level of control.

The products that we apply around and inside your home work by contacting the target pest. If an ant or cockroach crawls across a surface we have treated, there’s a pretty good chance it will either kill or repel the insect. However, when a flying insect, such as a fly or mosquito, flies over the areas we have treated there is no contact with the product. The insect can move freely in an area we have treated and suffer no ill effects. Therefore, the best hope for control of flying insects rests in elimination of harborage/food sources and sealing entries into the structure.

House flies are gross. I can think of few creatures (aside from German roaches) that will turn my stomach more quickly. Perhaps it is because I know too much about them and how they go about feeding and how their feeding habits lead to the spread of numerous diseases and other maladies. House flies have been shown to spread conjunctivitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, cholera, diarrhea and dysentery. These creatures are an extremely serious health issue. We recommend that you make every effort to maintain a good set of screens on windows and doors. Also, keep a couple of flyswatters handy to nail the occasional one that sneaks past the barriers. (Flies don’t live very long in my house!)

Bottle Flies (sometimes called blue bottle or green bottle flies) feed on decaying animal flesh. The green bottle fly is commonly found feeding on dog feces. If you have dogs it is very important that you keep the animals’ droppings cleaned up and properly discarded.

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