90% of flowers in my shop are artificial ones.. the balance are fresh flowers like chrysantumum and ect. theres so much of flies and i find it so hard to get rid of it..it sits mostly on my fresh flowers.. weird.. suggestions please..Thanks!
Flies all over my my flower shop..i wonder how %26amp; why..?
What kind of flies?
If they are tiny and look like fruit flies or gnats, you might have drain flies. Drain flies breed in drains, compost buckets, and other such things, but are also attracted to flowers and fruits...and mouthwash, as I have just discovered.
Do a google on drain flies and see if this is what they might be. You'll also find some home treatment remedies if you don't want to go the exterminator route.
You can also set out a jar of vinegar and honey (or, mouthwash), and this will attract them and hopefully help keep them off your plants until you can find the source of the problem and eradicate them.
Reply:Don't ever let the water your flowers are in get even a little slimy. It's bad for the flowers anyway but more important to your problem is the fact that flies love decaying plant matter just as much as they love other forms of rot. I have to be so careful with cut flowers in the summer. Don't just add more water, drain the old stuff and keep the containers clean. A mild bleach solution and a good rinse works well..
Reply:There is one type of small fly that lives in damp soil of potted plants. Let your pots' soil get on the dry side between waterings.
Buy Insecticidal soap which comes in a spray bottle and spray the tops and bottoms of leaves on the live plants. Spray the soils' too.
Set small containers of lids or bowls of vinegar around your shop. Most of these small plant flies will go to the vinegar and be trapped or die.
Reply:Flies need something to breed in, like trash or a dead animal. Look around for something you've overlooked.
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