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What Can I Use To Kill Flies. While adult mosquitoes favor lawns their larvae live in water including artificial ponds and rain barrels. If outdoors like garbage can garden lawn etc have been infested by sand flies then below listed steps need to followed. In this remedy you would have to use cloves along with lemons to deter flies. Use a hollow dish of apple cider vinegar.
Stock up on essential oils that flies dont like including lavender clove mint lemongrass and basil and use them to make your own fly repellent spray. Place the bagged waste in a lidded garbage can. Use rotten fruit and cellophane to make a simple trap. Apple Cider Vinegar Trap. You can also use citronella tea tree rosemary clove eucalyptus geranium and neem essential oil. Use diatomaceous earth to kill flies.
Vinegar and dish soap is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
If you dont like the smell of the vinegar rather spread jam or honey around the mouth of the jar and add half a teaspoon of Castille soap to the water instead. Boric Acid If the sand flies have infested your garbage can then just put some boric acid on the floor near garbage can. It kills the larval forms of flies including mosquitoes and gnats. In this remedy you would have to use cloves along with lemons to deter flies. Use a small pesticide duster to puff a little diatomaceous earth onto your houseplants into garbage cans and on other surfaces where flies congregate. Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is a naturally occurring soil bacterium you can buy in tablet powder and liquid form at garden centers.