What Attracts Flies

Among all the pests that irritate us, flies, generally, take the top slot. Other than a working refrigerator, perhaps there is absolutely no respite from this winged creature. During the summer, flies are as unbearable as the heat and as inescapable as the sweat. Foods, garbage and many other things always have a swarming halo of flies on them. Also, a single fly buzzing in the room is enough to rip you off the moments of calmness. Flies are also more irritable than mosquitoes, because you can’t simply kill them with a fling of a hand. They tend to read your intensions faster than you move your hands towards them and so take off before the impact of your hand can send them to eternity. Thus, to get rid of flies, you have to find the cause that attracts them to the place. This can be very easy; as like any other pests’, flies too love dirt and filth. So, cleanliness is the best solution to get rid of flies. The major things that attract flies are those on which the flies depend to thrive on, i.e,, food and breeding. Anything that offers these two necessities will be a hot spot for flies. Given below in the article are some of the most common things that attract flies.

 

Any sort of food, rotten or not, can attract flies. For the flies, the icing on the cake is rotten food. Rotting meat is another particular favourite pick. Specifically, the more rotten the foods are, the better it is. Rotten foods are fly gourmet and no fly would miss such a treat. Also, any type of food that is left uncovered will attract a swarm of flies. This holds especially true for foods like fruits, vegetables and cooked items.

 

A heap of fowl smelling, rotten and maggot-infested garbage can bring a horde of salivating flies to it. For flies, this is simply party time. Garbage is the perfect environment for flies to breed and it has plenty of food that they love. That is why the best way to get rid of flies is to keep the area spic and span.

 

Flies are partial towards sweat. You must have seen that flies constantly tend to buzz around people during summers. This is because of the sweat, which attracts the flies, as they feed on it. As such, you must have noticed, when people perspire a lot, droves of flies find their way to them.

 

Stagnant water, especially in open drains and such, attracts quite a lot of flies. Though this is a domain primarily for the mosquitoes, flies give them company when the water is loaded with garbage, which is most often the case. Flies feed on the organic matter in the water and also sometimes breed on them.

 

Dead and decaying animals are also quite a big attraction for flies. Dead animals provide the perfect condition for the flies to breed and the larva has plenty of food to develop. In addition, since rotten meat is the favourite food of flies, the decaying animals will make the flies go into a feeding frenzy.