Fly season is approaching, which means you can expect to find lots of the irritating insects in your house and garden very shortly. You don’t have to put up with these irritating and dangerous animals though, as a fly killer light can be used to keep numbers at bay. 

While house flies might not appear threatening, they can actually spread more than 200 diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and gastroenteritis. They can also cause skin and eye infections, as they pick up pathogens and transfer them on to items in your house, including food. 

They do this by either regurgitating the contents of their stomach or defecating on household objects. 

Fruit flies, horse flies and cluster lies are also a nuisance, carrying germs from surface to surface.

This doesn’t mean you have to shut your windows throughout the warmest months of the year though, as fly zappers can eliminate irritating flies. 

Their ultraviolet tubes firstly attract the pest and when they land on the bulbs, they receive a high voltage that kills them. 

It is important to have control measures, such as this, in place, as flies can breed very quickly. In fact, females begin producing eggs just two days after they become an adult, and they can produce up to 150 eggs in the few months they are alive. 

Only 48 hours after being produced, the eggs turn into maggots before eventually becoming adult flies themselves. 

Their population tends to peak during August and September, having picked up over the warmer summer months when the windows and doors are more likely to be open and food is exposed. 

As well as using fly light killers, it is also sensible to reduce contamination risks through other means. This includes storing rubbish in sealed containers, having good hand hygiene, and using barriers against windows or doors, particularly in commercial premises.