When you live in your own home, you may be in for a variety of surprises. One of these unexpected guests is flies!

Do you think that by moving from the city to a cottage village you will avoid the “charms” of the village? But no!

And so, this season we encountered an invasion of flies, which intensified due to the unusual heat and seemingly endless warming. In addition, our new neighbors in the village began to keep cattle, which only added to the “joy”.

In the vicinity of our house, the equestrian school next door has also joined in the production of organic waste. In short, we live in a fly-trap area.

The first thing we tried was to cover all the windows with mosquito nets, cover the doors with tulle and even hang up sticky tapes, which turned into real flytraps.

But as soon as the wind blew the curtains, the flies again freely entered the house.

In desperation, we decided to resort to chemicals. We went to the store and bought “Dichlorvos-Terminator”, but even a direct blow from this can did not stop our insect-uninvited guests.

The most impudent fly even flew up and asked if we would spray a little more of this “laughing gas”.

And then I remembered the good old method – the newspaper. A large-scale hunt began with cries of “THYSH!” throughout the house, but, strangely enough, the flies still returned.

Last year I already encountered a similar problem, and then clove oil came to the rescue, which we bought in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

Unlike the usual diluted oil, this was pure, concentrated.

After spraying clove oil on the curtains and screens and placing cotton balls with the oil by the windows, I noticed that the flies began to disappear. Gradually, the entire house became free of them.

In the end, it seems the flies didn’t like it and flew away to more tolerant neighbors. Sorry, neighbors, nothing personal – just survival.