When considering home hygiene, you probably focus on cleaning floors, washing dishes, and maintaining an organized fridge. One threat that you maybe haven’t paid attention to are flies in your kitchen. These miniature culprits are not only a nuisance; they carry dangerous bacteria and viruses that can affect your family’s health.
As a pest control service provider you trust, the team at MA Pest Control LLP is here to share the facts about flies and how to protect your home.
Why Flies in the Kitchen Are a Serious Problem
Flies are more than just a nuisance; they are nature’s garbage collectors. For flies, any decaying matter, garbage bin, drain, or animal waste, is an ideal place to reproduce. So, when they land on your kitchen counter or food, they introduce harmful microorganisms.
Associated with the spread of disease by flies are acute gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, food poisoning, and eye infections. A single housefly can carry over 100 different pathogens, making them arguably one of the most harmful pests in a household kitchen.
How Flies Contaminate Your Food
Flies don’t have teeth, rather they eat by vomiting digestive fluids onto food and sucking it up. Sounds gross? It’s worse than that. When flies feed on your meals they vomit digestive fluids, and like everything else, they transfer bacteria from their bodies and legs onto your food.
Flies can also leave fly eggs on food that is left uncovered, leading to unseen contamination.
Why Kitchens Attract Flies
Flies are likely to be attracted to:
• Leftovers on food scraps on plates, or on the counter
• Garbage bins that overflow or bins that are not covered
• Dirty sinks and drains
• Overripe fruits and vegetables
• Spilled juices or sugary liquid
A single lapse in cleaning could, in fact, provide flies with the opportunity to breed, as flies can lay up to 500 eggs in a matter of days.
Steps to Protect Your Kitchen from Flies
Here are ways to eliminate the risk of flies posing a problem in your home:
1. Do not leave any food, cooked or raw, uncovered.
2. Clean all surfaces in the kitchen daily. Be sure to wipe down your counters, stovetop, and dining table with disinfectant.
3. Dispose of garbage properly. Invest in garbage bins with lids and clean them daily.
4. Clean drains. Use drain cleaners to eliminate any organic matter left.
5. Store fruits in the fridge. This not only shields the fruit from flies, it will also prevent the odour of overripe fruit from attracting flies.
6. And finally, consider installing fly screens to block flies from entering. Windows and doors are the most common entry points, fly screens will help to reduce the opportunity for flies.
When to Call a Professional
If you’re noticing an abundance of flies in your kitchen, even after you clean, there is a good possibility that you have a hidden breeding area. Professionals dealing with fly control not only treat adult flies but their larvae, meaning a full solution.
At MA Pest Control LLP, we only use insecticides that are safe, and environmentally friendly, to eliminate flies and protect the health of your loved ones. Our trained technicians will find the source, treat the infestation, and provide you with instructions on how to eliminate them in the future.
Final Thoughts
Having flies in the kitchen is not only annoying, it is a considerable health hazard. By keeping your kitchen clean and employing a pest control service when the situation calls for it, you can make sure your kitchen is a safe place for your family. We want to keep your loved ones safe. Call MA Pest Control LLP today for effective fly control in Kolkata, Siliguri, Ranchi, Assam, Coochbehar, Jaigoan and surround locations.
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