What is a blowfly?
A type of flying insect, blowflies have a characteristic shiny metallic appearance, distinctive large eyes, a set of wings, and grow between 9-22 mm long.
How can I tell the difference between a house fly and blowfly?
Blowflies are larger than house flies, come in different colours and have a metallic sheen.
Reasons to avoid a blowfly infestation
They make distracting buzzing noises, spread diseases, contaminate clean food and surfaces, and outbreaks in businesses can breach health and safety regulations.
Signs you have a blowfly problem
You notice many of them swarming around a particular area, you can hear loud buzzing, or spot their larvae.
How to prevent a blowfly outbreak
We recommend installing flyscreens, keeping waste secured, removing food and water sources and practicing good hygiene around your home.
Professional blowfly management
We use a combination of insecticide aerosol sprays, fogging, dusting, baits, traps and installing fly control units.
Routine pest management for food-handling businesses
To ensure that your business stays compliant with government standards, our 24/7 personalised online portal makes pest management a breeze.
For reliable and fast blowfly treatment, choose Allstate
Our technicians are available 24/7 to all suburbs of Adelaide for innovative solutions to all blowfly problems.
What is a blowfly?
Blowflies play an important role in breaking down organic matter. With an appetite for decaying, rotten protein, they thrive in areas such as meat-processing facilities, slaughterhouses, garbage dumps and recycling plants. In fact, they can detect odours from up to 19km away.
Blowflies prefer to live in warmer climates with higher humidity, and lay their eggs in decomposing organic waste, such as rubbish, compost piles, plant matter and manure.
How can I tell the difference between a house fly and blowfly?
Blowflies also tend to prefer decaying organic food sources and flies will eat both fresh and rotten food.
Reasons to avoid a blowfly infestation
During summer, it may only take 7 days for an adult blowfly to develop from an egg, so outbreaks can happen fast!
Not only will the constant buzzing sound from their rapidly flapping wings be noisy and distraction, they can cause disruptions to your daily activities.
With an appetite for decaying organic matter, especially rubbish and dead animals, blowflies are experts are spreading diseases as they fly around foraging for food in unsanitary places.
They contaminate food as well as clean surfaces and areas around your home, spreading germs, parasites and diseases such as salmonella, gastroenteritis and dysentery. Not to mention, you’re left with more housework to tidy up after them.
The presence of blowflies has worse consequences for commercial and industrial businesses, who are subject to strict health and safety standards. Any breach can cause damage to reputation, result in hefty fines and halt trading.
Keep blowflies at bay this summer. Speak to our expert team.
orSigns you have a blowfly problem
You may see blowflies swarming around a particular area, usually a food source or a breeding site, and it will be hard to miss their unmistakeable buzzing.
You may also spot their breeding site, which will emit an unpleasant rotting smell and contain many larvae or maggots, located within decaying rubbish or dead animals. Larvae resemble grains of rice, and grow between 9-22mm long.
How to prevent a blowfly outbreak
Although it can be hard to avoid pesky flies during outdoor dining situations, it’s important to discourage them from hanging around your property as much as possible and prevent them from settling into breeding sites. Here’s how:
Keep waste secured
Ensure that all rubbish, especially decaying food scraps, is stored in tightly sealed bags and bins with well-fitting lids. Regularly dispose of rubbish to avoid overflowing bins.
Entry point exclusion
Identify and remove all entry points for blowflies to enter your home. You can install fly screens over windows and doors.
Remove food sources
Blowflies are attracted to rotten food smells, which can be carried by air currents far away from your property. Avoid leaving pet bowls outside if possible.
Remove water sources
Fix leaking taps, drains and pipes.
Keep your home clean
Remove food spills, debris and grease as quickly as possible and make sure that food preparation and dining areas are clean. This includes wiping down benches, tables, sinks and stoves, washing dishes and cutlery, as well as sweeping, vacuuming and mopping floors. Pay attention to maintaining waste storage areas and your pet’s favourite spaces. Remove dead wildlife such as birds and rodents, which are prime blowfly breeding sites.
Get on top of a blowfly outbreak quickly. Speak to an expert today.
orProfessional blowfly management
Before applying any treatment, our pest control technicians will perform a comprehensive blowfly assessment to determine the source of the outbreak, locate all breeding sites, and provide specific advice on hygiene practices and waste management if needed.
We then use the following methods to control the infestation, and review their effectiveness at appropriate intervals:
- Insecticide aerosol sprays
- Fogging
- Dusting
- Baiting and trapping with specialised traps that physically attract and catch blowflies
- Installing fly control units at commercial and industrial facilities with food handling
Routine pest management for food-handling businesses
At Allstate, our technicians are highly trained to be familiar with food standard HACCP. This means that we understand how important it is to stay compliant with government regulations to keep your business open. With the constant threat of pests such as blowflies having a negative impact on day-to-day operations, we make monitoring pests simple.
Our routine pest management program doesn’t just include pest control services delivered at regular intervals according to your business’ risk level. You’re given access to an innovative 24/7 personalised online reporting portal, which contains all relevant compliance documents, service reports and allows fast and direct communication to a dedicated pest control technician that is familiar with your business.
Reach out to Allstate today to learn more about how we can help protect your business from pests all year long.
For reliable and fast blowfly treatment, choose Allstate
With summer parties and outdoor activities on the agenda, the last thing you need is a swarm of blowflies to ruin your plans.
Since 1986, Allstate has provided premium pest control services to homes and businesses in all suburbs of Adelaide. We’re available 24/7 for all urgent enquiries, and provide fast advice on how to combat blowflies effectively. Using innovative treatments that are non-toxic to pets, children and the environment, we can manage pest infestations of all sizes in commercial, industrial and residential settings.
With payment plans available, you can avoid the stress and disruption of a blowfly outbreak this party season by reaching out to Allstate as soon as possible.
Our expert team is ready to help you now.
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