How to Get Rid of Flies

Using a professional fly control service is the most effective way to guarantee the complete removal of flies from your business. Your Rentokil expert will follow the ERDM approach to ensure your long-term protection:

• Exclusion - Proofing of doors, windows, roof vents, etc. to prevent flies entering a premises.
• Restriction - General good housekeeping practices to remove possible fly breeding sites.
• Destruction - Use of the correct fly control treatment for your individual circumstances.
• Monitoring - Inspection during regular visits.

Call Rentokil today on 246 429 3546 or contact us online to get rid of flies. Looking for some practical advice while you wait? We have some great tips to help you keep flies out of your house.

How to Keep Flies Away

Flies can be a nuisance pest for homes and businesses. A fly infestation could pose a serious health risk as flies are known to spread a range of diseases, like Salmonella and E.coli. 

If you want to prevent flies, there are some practical steps you can take to deter them. Some of these methods are totally cost-free and only require your time to action. 

Recommended steps involve making changes indoors and outdoors to cover all potential hot spots and ensure effective fly control.

Fly Prevention Tips

• Deny flies access - keep windows and doors closed.
• Flyscreens - fit flyscreens to windows especially around kitchen and waste areas.
• Cover food - flies spread diseases by landing on food before we eat it.
• Clear away - clear food debris and liquid spillages from food consumption and preparation areas, under kitchen benches and appliances.
• Dustbins / Compost bins - ensure all waste containers have tightly sealed lids.
• Pets - clean up after pets. Not only are faeces a perfect breeding place for flies, they may land there before landing on your food.
• Clear up dead flies - they provide a tasty snack for other pests such as carpet beetles.
• Water butts - cover these with well fitted lids.
• Standing water - do not leave standing water (in watering cans and pot plants for example) as this offers mosquitoes opportunity to breed.
• Ponds - if you have a garden pond, introduce goldfish as they will eat mosquito larvae.
• Drains - ensure drains are kept clean and free of debris to reduce fly breeding sites.

FACT: Common house flies are attracted to decaying organic waste such as faeces and rotting meat, whereas fruit flies will look for sugary substances and feed more commonly on overripe fruit, spilled soft drinks and alcohol.

Rentokil Fly Control Treatments

Once a survey of your premises is complete, your Rentokil expert will recommend a fly control treatment program specially for your needs. It may include one, or a combination, of the following:

• Housekeeping and hygiene recommendations
• Baits
• Dusting powders
• Sprays
• Fogs
• Aerosol mists
• LED insect light traps

Used in conjunction with Exclusion, Restriction and Monitoring practices you will have effective, long-term protection from flies for your business.

Ongoing Protection with Lumnia

Rentokil’s Lumnia range of LED insect light traps are an effective, environmentally friendly and non-toxic solution to combat fly infestations. They use light to attract flying insects, including flies, and trap them using glueboards or electric grids.

Need a professional solution to your fly problem? Call Rentokil today on 246 429 3546 or contact us online.