Outdoor Fly Repellent–How Does It Work?

Mosquito Squad categorizes “flies” as everything from large filth flies to small, annoying gnats to those all-eyes-and-teeth no-see-ums. Beyond their obnoxious presence, these flying critters can pose a significant risk to your family’s health. Flies are drawn to smelly, rotten waste and garbage and spread germs and bacteria to everything they land on–which is a lot. Moreover, flies spread disease by landing frantically on many surfaces and excreting their own liquid waste as they do so, in order to make room for more food.

Mosquito Squad offers a Fly Control package that has been specifically made to mitigate fly, gnat, and other pest populations outside your home, helping to keep your outdoor space an enjoyable, clean space to relax and also to help protect the overall health of your indoor home environment.

Fly Repellent

In addition to Mosquito Squad’s fly control package, our professionals recommend a few extra practices to ensure that all of your bases are covered and fly populations remain at bay.

DIY

The classic “pennies in a jar” trick is tried and true! You will need a few pennies and a glass filled with water for each one. Simply drop a penny into a full glass of water, place it on your outdoor table, and enjoy a meal without the constant annoyance of flies. You can also try this trick with a few plastic baggies and multiple pennies dropped to the bottom and hung about your porch or patio. The refracted light from the penny inside the water confuses less-than-intelligent houseflies and keeps them from landing on your food and contaminating your picnic.

Flypaper is a great option for thinning fly swarms around your home. Purchase sticky fly strips that contain insecticide, or make your own by covering strips of cloth in fly-repelling essential oils like clove, lavender, mint, lemongrass, eucalyptus, and rosemary.

Bird baths, bat houses, and bird feeders are other great natural options for DIY fly control, as attracting small animals like birds, bats, and frogs that feed on flies will, of course, thin out the populations in your backyard. If you’re feeling crafty, you can even build your own bird or bat house!

Tips & Tricks

Mosquito Squad professionals also offer a few helpful habits, tips, and tricks that you can use as part of your regular yard-keeping routine to help fly, gnat, and no-see-um populations at bay. Be sure to clean up grass clippings, keep trash contained in sealed bins, and make regular trips to your local dump to avoid letting it pile up and become smelly. Further, keep up with pet waste messes! Regularly scoop your dog’s poop to keep flies at bay–remember, the nastier the mess, the more appealing it is to yucky pests.

Fly Treatment by Mosquito Squad

Fly control from Mosquito Squad is a four-step process. We offer a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee with our fly treatment methods, prioritizing customer happiness and comfort over all else. 

1. The first step of efficient fly control is to conduct thorough yard cleanup & sanitization. Be sure to remove trash and decaying matter from your yard, as well as sanitize trash cans and food containers and drain standing water.
2. Next, Mosquito Squad technicians will inspect your yard, identifying fly hotspots. Typically, flying critters are attracted to gardens, standing water, trash and compost, as well as warm, sunny areas.
3. After inspection, our technicians will be able to efficiently treat your property against flies, gnats, and other pests. Our Fly Control barrier spray treatment reduces fly populations and helps repel them for up to 21 days at a time. We recommend continuing with regularly scheduled treatment following your initial spray, to ensure that fly swarms are minimal throughout the warm months.
4. As part of our thorough treatment process, Mosquito Squad will place fly bait and traps as a second layer of defense for your property. Insect growth regulators may also be installed in order to measure small fly populations and ensure they are controlled as well.

Contact Mosquito Squad today for a free quote and to address any additional questions you may have concerning our pest packages or comprehensive fly control treatment.