My neighbour has recently had a compost bin put down the bottom of her garden. Now the garden is swarming with fly's
What -if anything- can I do to keep the fly's down
Cheers
Richard
flys
Apr 15, 2007
11 Replies
Shouldn't be *that* many flies. There will be some, but I haven't found it excessive even after priming my bin with freshest horse eggs. My garden is the size of a postage stamp too.
Is she putting unsuitable materials into the bin such as fish and meat products?
Tim
Make sure you bury her deep enough. ;-)
Tim
Does the compost bin smell ? If not, the flies are probably coincidental. If it does pong then (as suggested by Tim S) it't probably due to fish or meat etc in the heap. A word in her ear might be worthwhile as it will only attracts rats _into her garden_.
Are they house flies, or little mozzie type things? - if the latter, it may be more likely due to someone else having put a pond in recently.
It's probably late for this year, but you could put up some bird boxes and try to attract natural predators - better still, why not try a bat box (like a bird box but without a base and no hole on the front).
As far as I know flies do not produce down. This is usually produced by something a bit larger than a fly, like some kind of duck. You can keep this.
Installation of a large mosquito net around and over the bin while all the flies are near it will trap them for you to feed to your lizard...
You *do* have a lizard don't you ?
Arf arf Ms Truss!
Where on earth do you get horse eggs??? :o)
John
From a clucking horse, silly! :-)
Fly = Singular Flies = Plural :)
Sylvain.
From mares.
Mary
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