Response to flys

Go to your local farm supply store, and get some fly traps. They are gallon jars with lid designed so that the flies can crawl in, but not out. You fill the jar about half way with water, and throw in a handful of stew or hamburger meat. Let it sit and ripen a few days out in your barn area, and the flies will flock into the jar. It gets really gross--all maggoty and smelly; just put the jar in the sun so the heat will kill the occupants, then bury the contents where the dog won't dig it up, then fill it up and do it again. The year that we did this early in the season, we got rid of a LOT of the flies before they could continue their life cycle, and noticed a big difference by the end of the summer in the fly population. Gets rid of them before they get in the house, without the poison. We just live with the lady bugs in the winter; Hubby occassionally gets mad and drowns them in an old plastic cup with water and a drop of dish soap. I draw the line at ladybugs fallin in my dinner fixins'. Or my dish water.

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