Having a fly buzzing around your home is certainly a common sight because of all of the food and smells your home creates. If you want to have a backyard barbeque with friends, you may not notice a single fly until the food is ready to start cooking, then you wonder where they all came from. Flies are constantly on the hunt for food and they have a surprisingly long range sense of smell that brings them from as far as four miles away. Eliminating flies within your Visalia home will help you be able to enjoy your food instead of having to guard every bite from the persistent pestering of a fly. While you can create or purchase a fly trap, if you have a fly infestation, having a professional fly control technician treat for flies is the easiest and quickest way to eliminate flies from your home.
Risks
Flies are often gross people out, especially if they land on your food or in your drink. But it is for good reason that people do not want their dinners swarmed with flies. These pesky bugs can carry diseases and bacteria that can ultimately get you sick if you ingest food that is contaminated by flies. A few types of diseases that flies are known to carry are:
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Coli
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Dysentery
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Food poisoning
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Typhoid fever
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Tuberculous
Preventing flies
To keep flies from coming into your home, you can plant certain plants around your porch or patio that flies can’t stand. Plants that flies hate include:
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Marigolds
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Lavender
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Basil
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Rosemary
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Sage
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Mint
By planting these blooming plants or herbs in flower beds or even in pots around your home, flies will not get close enough to your door to be able to sneak inside.
Eliminate flies
If flies have already found a way into your home, and there are too many to smash with a flyswatter, you may have to do a little more than add some fragrant plants to your porch. Whether using a pesticide, sticky trap, or home-made trap, you can eliminate a few flies from your home.
But if you start to notice an unusual amount of flies appear in your home all at once, it is possible that the flies are breeding somewhere in your house. You may have something rotting such as a bad potato or other vegetable somewhere in your home that provides the perfect environment for a fly to lay eggs. It will be difficult to get all of these new, young flies out of your home once they have hatched. Giving your trusted Visalia pest professional a call can help you quickly eliminate all the flies from your home.
For the best fly control, give San Joaquin Pest Control in Visalia a call today.
