i actually tried the ziplock bag thing.

My Aunt told me about putting a few pennies in a zip loc bag with water and leave it on the counter. I thought it was just another ‘gimmick’, but I was desparate, so gave it a try. It really does work!!
If you have a fly problem, you really have to give this a try!

Okay, so witht this bag theory. It seems like it works but I am trying to get rid of the flies in our garage. We just had a party and we have around 100 flies in there.

So, would the zip- lock bag theory still work if i hung it in the garage, where there might not be that much light?

Yes I have tried the zip lock bag, half full of water, I put five pennies in it and where we live in the country by a multch plant and cattle farms we were being masacured by flies. Now we sit out on our deck and very, very seldom even see a fly! This was a life saver for us. not sure why it works, I just know that it does.

Now I know why i don’t get flies in my house here in the tropics. I have an aquarium beside my dining room.

I Lived @ 2 Places where they didn’t care about any thing! I hate Bugs Dirtyness!

I swear the water bag works. I just tried it this morning when i saw flies started coming into the house. I was so awed with the results.
thank you so much. i wonder if fish tank will have the same effect??

After reading everyone’s comment s I tried the ziploc bag trick w/ the pennies. Worked instantly!!!!!!!!!

i have been putting my garbage in doubble bags before putting them into the big green bag that is placed in a locked contaner outside. i have cleaned the side of my house very well and i have sprayed, i don’t have a problem inside anymore but i still have alot of flies around the outside of my home. we moved in late summer last year, i thought thats why they were out there but no.my problem is getting worse everyday, dose anyone have any suggestions?…cheep suggestions?

use the plastic pant hangers with the metal clamps to hang your ziplocs.

I used plastic pant hangers with the metal clamps to hang my bags from…..hanger worked well, not so sure about the water in bag theory! BUT…. I’m trying again since you all swear by it. Thanks.

Also, Windex blue kills but not instantly. Spray pine sol (or cheap immitation of pine cleaner) drops em instantly. However they come back.

I have reviewed all the comments here I think I will try the zip lock with pennies and then I will check out the screens on windows and calk them.

I never had fly problem till yesterday when I killed about 20 of them and could not figure out where they were coming from. There are two windows in my kitchen where they seem to be coming in.

I have an orange tree in my yard and I am a new gardner, but the flies are no where near the food! It is amazing to me. They are not even entering the kitchen just congregating at these particular windows.

So I will put up the zip lock bags, fix gaps and let you know how that worked for me.

Thanks I love the internet!

We have a small domestic farm and since the beginning of this summer FLIES are everywhere! We couldn’t sit on the front porch without being pelted with flies. I used fly sprays, other chemicals, bleached the cement porch…all this worked for about 3 or less hours and suddenly swarms of flies again! My husband read about zip-lock bags full of water and I laughed and said OKAY I will try anything. Put two bags on the front porch and NOT A SINGLE FLY ALL DAY AND NIGHT LONG!! I am still perplexed by this concept…I put two bags on the kitchen counter and one on a coffee table in the living room; NO STINKING FLIES ARE ANYWHERE I HAVE THE BAGS. AGAIN, NONE! I was a nay-Sayer on this and really, really believed this was a hokey thing…but it worked for us!

I swear by the plastic bag of water trick I have them on side porch ( our house entry) and all around the basement door. We saw these in Northeast Mo at an Amish grocery store & have used them since. They say it works because a fly sees a reflection & won’t come around.

Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found that each of the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it’s like a zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner. When you figure that flies are basically prey for many other bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won’t take the risk of being around that much perceived action. I moved to a rural area ant thought these “hillbillies” were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it, worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but he don’t hang around long.

What if the flies are all over the siding outside by the deck how do you keep them of that . They are there everyday insun or cloudy what can we do

Zip lock!! It really worked for us!!! So sick of flys … tried the bag (closed not open that’s why it specified ‘zip lock’)… it’s hanging down from the middle of our back double sliding doors and no more flies … another tip … try burning incense … smells nice and works like citronella. Now I can do my cooking in peace … (but what about kids?)

I have a recurring horse fly problem. No food source, they seem attracted to my two picture windows in my living room. There were about 100 baby flies last June with many huge flys on this window, I thought I would go crazy. Got them all with a fly swatter…..but now,7 months later we have huge horse flys on the inside of the same windows. Why are they coming there. They aren’t in the kitchen, there are no dead animals or food source in that area at all. I have killed about 10 the past 5 days and by the way, it’s been below zero here……anyone have a clue what is going on?

little tiny flies are in my house we have cleaned it and cleaned again ..we tried clorox to set in the trap below the sink and let it set overnight we have a garbarater by the way we live in an apt