Anyone else is forced to live with flies due to screaming?

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So, I've always had a problem, for many years now... not flies, that isn't the biggest problem, humans are much peskier... in the kitchen I can open a window and let them fly away, but I can't in my bedroom (and no, don't suggest a psychopathic approach) because some years ago the very f*****g government of (what a surprise) selfish conservatives decided they wanted their children to play in front of my flat, and just in front even if they live two doors down... so, can't open a window, or my brain will be full of holes created from screams, and so I'm forced to live with flies, which as mentioned, at the very least, not noisy...

A $2 fly swatter from Target is the tool I'd use to get rid of flies.

This is a bit of a catch-22 for me. I have the same problem with living on a noisy street, so much prefer to keep my windows closed. At the same time, my super-sensitive hearing makes the sound of things buzzing or fluttering around grate on my nerves something awful, and I hate the feeling that whatever it is might bump into me at any moment (moths are my most hated - they can be beautiful, and I don't really want to kill them, but I can't sleep in a room with a moth fluttering around.)

The only thing I can really do is to stop them getting in in the first place. For example, when I do open my windows, I have bits of net-curtain taped over the openings, like a mosquito net, so that things can't fly in.

This is the best thread title I've seen here...

I get it you don't want to swat/kill them? Use a tea towel or similar to chase them out of the bedroom and close the door (you could also use something like an over-ripe piece of fruit to try to attract them to another room). Don't keep the door open during the day.

Those window nets (for the windows you can open) are pretty effective too.

You should let spiders hang out inside your house. That's what I do!

I don't have a fly problem as I have cats that eat flies but if I can get to them first I catch them and let them out ( the flys not the cats )

You deffo need one of these

There is a simple solution to controlling fly populations. It is known as a Fly Ribbon Trap. It is very inexpensive and very effective. These have been around for a long time. We used them 65 years ago and these traps are still around today. Just tack it onto the ceiling and pull down the tube which unwraps the ribbon inside the tube and let it hang there. The flies periodically land and when they land on the trap, they are stuck forever.

This link will show you what they look like.

Sticky Fly Ribbons

A humane fly trap? As in it catches flies without harming them and you release them outdoors? When I was young it was swat, smash, squish, spray, and do whatever you could to send the disease-ridden buggers to fly heaven. Now we are trapping our vermin alive and unharmed to be released where they can fly off and possibly spread pestilence to some other poor slob. But maybe we'll get lucky and the flies will just get eaten by frogs or spiders.

Hey, I know! That's what we should be doing to disease-causing bacteria! They're alive, so we shouldn't be trying to kill them even when they're making many people really sick and killing them. Let salmonella, bacterial meningitis, staph and TB run free!!

Flies were even once used as a biological weapon in WWII. It's like animal "rights" activists are trying to make me feel sorry for a bunch serial killers.

^^ It's your choice what to do with the flies once caught.

If you want to pull off their wings and legs one by one be my guest

"Do not kill a single fly; for then a hundred more will come to its funeral." -- Russian Proverb

^ Legend has it that the Roman poet Virgil payed approx $1.6 million ( equivalent to today's money ) for the funeral of his pet fly.

Flies dislike the smells of lavender, eucalyptus, peppermint, lemongrass, cloves, mint, camphor, marigolds, cinnamon, and basil. (There may be others) You can pick a scent or multiple and have them around except for where you'll be having them exit. Once you think most are out you can have the scent everywhere and it should help keep anymore from wanting to come in.

The scent does have to be noticeable, like where you walk in and go "oh peppermint!" (Or whatever you choose). So certainly choose something or a combination you like the smell of.

There are various ways you can get these into the air, the plants themselves, oil diffusers, plug in aroma things, sprays, a potpourri thing for a couple, a wax warmer for the camphor... What you choose will dictate the best way to spread the scent.

You could also get some Venus fly traps. Yes the flies are killed but it's a purposeful death, circle of life lol

I have no idea how to get rid of the brats outside of somewhat psycho ideas