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Fly Solution?

If, like me, you live a few miles from several of those newly arrived factory-run-mega-dairies, you may have noticed more flies than usual during the spring, summer, and fall.  These dairies weren't around a few years ago and many people around me think the flies are now worse than they used to be.  I can't prove a specific fly comes from a particular dairy but I do know flies can travel a mile or two per day.  It doesn't take them long to find homes to bother.  Why they want to leave those manure piles I will never figure out.

Anyway, I have taken to planting bulbs of insect eating plants to which flies seem fatally attracted.  This spring I will have flowers blooming for about one month straight.  I don't know if I can get these things to bloom in the fall but it is theoretically possible.   Free fly traps like these are fairly easy to grow in any case.

The only drawback is the slight odor of dead meat coming out of the cavernous trap deep inside the flower.