Best products to keep flies out of my house?
We are very clean and never leave food out (so don’t even go there), but every time someone opens the back door at least one comes in. I searched other questions of the same nature on Answers, and the internet as well as product reviews on Amazon.com, but there are so many recommendations and products I have no idea what to choose. I like the idea of the outside traps, but we really don’t have a descrete place to put something like that around our house. Indoor traps just seem…gross. As far as natural repellents, I’ve heard crushed mint, ziploc bags filled with water, lavender….etc. I am totally fine with putting a trap of some sort in the garage (for some reason there are a lot in there–large ones–even though we always close the lid tightly on the garbage cans, and we don’t normally have anything terribly stinky in there anyway), but all of the space around the rest of the house is completely open since we live in a new neighborhood and on the corner lot with no house next to us. I would prefer a suggestion for a good repellent for the back door. They seem to follow my dog inside after he’s been out a while and has that "stinky dog smell" after he’s started to get hot, which doesn’t take long. Oh, I should mention I’m really tired of spraying bug spray in the house. It gives me a headache and even just a small spray permeates the entire house.