How Do Flies Come About? Know What They Fear Most and You Can Quickly Eliminate Them

Summer is when flies are most numerous. If you leave the door of your home open, before long flies will fly in, and they also bring bacteria. So how do flies come about? What do they fear most? How do you quickly eliminate them?

1. How do flies come about?

Flies come about when adult flies mate and lay eggs; the eggs then transform into larvae (maggots), the larvae become pupae, and the pupae develop into adult flies. Development is usually completed in just over ten days.

The life course of a fly is measured in days. Its egg stage lasts about 1 day, the larval stage 3 to 6 days, and the pupal stage 3 to 7 days. From egg to adult takes only 7 to 14 days. In a matter of days to just over ten days, a granular egg grows into a fly.

After the adult sheds the pupal skin and emerges, it begins to move about and feed 2 to 24 hours later. Flies can only mate and lay eggs normally after feeding. Flies are very good at flying and are strongly phototactic: they fly toward wherever it is bright, so they like to be active during the day or in places with lights at night. In dark places or at night, they settle on ceilings, hanging ropes, walls and other such places to rest.

2. What do flies fear most?

1. The animals flies fear most are spiders, geckos and frogs.

2. The scents flies fear most are: night-blooming jasmine (cestrum nocturnum), orange jessamine (murraya paniculata), wild chrysanthemum, four o'clock flower (mirabilis jalapa), lemon, crape myrtle, jasmine, orchid, clove and other fragrant plants.

(1) Night-blooming jasmine

Also known as night-blooming cestrum, it is native to tropical America. Its leaves are heart-shaped with soft hairs along the edges. Between summer and autumn, clusters of yellow-green bell-shaped flowers open at the leaf axils. When the moon rises above the treetops, it gives off waves of delicate fragrance. This scent frightens mosquitoes and makes it an excellent mosquito repellent.

(2) Orange jessamine

An evergreen small shrub with a corymb-like form, small glossy leaves, dense white flowers and red fruit. Touching its leaves releases a rich, sweet fragrance, and its mosquito-repelling effect is very good.

3. How do you eliminate flies?

1. In summer, we can spray some insecticide in places such as the kitchen and living room to achieve the goal of eliminating flies.

2. You can also place flypaper in places such as the kitchen and living room and put a little food on the sticky board, then just wait for the prey to take the bait.

3. In places where flies often pass, you can place some fresh peach leaves. The scent given off by the peach leaves can effectively drive them away.

4. When cooking, you can also place some scallions nearby; the scent given off by scallions can also help drive flies away.

5. Spray some pure rice vinegar indoors, and flies will stay far away.

6. Light dried orange peel indoors; it can both drive away flies and remove indoor odors.

7. Keep a potted tomato plant indoors; it can drive flies away.

8. Dry used tea leaves in the sun and burn them in the toilet or beside a dirty water ditch; they can not only drive away mosquitoes and flies but also remove foul odors.

Besides the methods above, you can also kill flies with a wet rag. After a water-soaked rag is thrown, its kinetic energy is greater, so its range is farther; in addition, the rag's coverage area is large, which increases the hit rate. After a period of practice, the rag thrown by the practitioner will become a fly's nightmare.