Yes they work just like fabric softener sheets keep wasps out of mail boxes because they are TOXIC so be sure to use with caution. Thanks for the tip it may be worth the the trade off in this case. Shalom
I grew up in the Rockies and we use to go get wild raspberries. You always looked at the trees because bears scratch as high as they can to place ownership on the raspberry bush. That scratching post was claiming the hive.
Just watched your video. My Father passed away in 2020 at the age of 82. And he told me that yes you could find the hive by following a bee. We grew flowers and veggies at the house. And we didn't use much weed killer, so we always had bees and he would watch them and he told about doing that as a boy. The part of Delhi township where he grew up was mostly 5 acre farms and most of the men could and did other work.
Man I wish I would have known this when I went to Harbor Freight today. I had a damned black fly following me and kept biting me on the back of my head and neck. Had I known I would have worn a couple around my neck and got weird looks from everyone…..lol.
Yep my chickens and horses are about 150ft away. I've been happily Bug-A-Salting the skyraisins. Good to know about the drain bleaching! Biting flies carry diseases.
This is so interesting. I have a wax melt doo hickey and am currently using sugar cookie scented melts (very vanilla-y). Now that you mention it, I actually notice a reduction in fly traffic around our house but never thought it was the scent until just now. Good info!
I use a few drops of tea tree oil/oregano oil in a water spray...I spray the doorways, window screens, & rugs...& the dogs, coops. The aroma dissipates, but not to flies, fleas, & ticks, plus it serves as a microbial thru-out. Diatomaceous Earth routinely sprinkled on poo areas works great, too. Gonna try your idea...seems simple, cheap & nose-worthy! Thanks, Papason! :)
My grandad successfully raised honey bees out here in so. California. There was a candy maker company near him that gave him the imperfect candy. He put it in a big trash can near the white bee boxes where he kept his bees. He would also take the bees up north to pollenate the almond trees and I guess other trees that needed pollenating. He did very well and everyone always had their share of honey with no shortages, and plenty to share with neighbors and friends... He said he only got stung a couple of times for all the years he did that He has passed or I'd ask more questions for him to answer. Good Luck!! We were thinking about raising them too, but we have 100s of acres that nobody is near, so I think it would work out good...I'll let you all know. Great channel... Just found you... I'll be back!!! Thanks for the info..gonna try it the next time we go into town. Kcl
ONE TIME WHEN I STILL LIVED IN THE CITY, MY NEXT DOOR FRIENDS TRASH CAN WERE ON THE SAME SIDE AS OURS WERE AND THEY HAD TWO DOGS IN THE BACK YARD. AFTER BEING THERE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS THE FLIES GOT SO BAD I COULDN'T TAKE IT MUCH MORE. SO I WENT TO WALMRT AND BUT THESE BIG STICKY MOUSE GLUE STRIPES AND LAYED A COUPLE OVER EACH CAN AND LEFT FOR A BIT, CAME BACK AND BOTH WERE COVERED WITH FLIES. I WENT AND GOT MORE AND EVERYDAY OR SO I CHECKED THEY WERE COVER WITH FLIES, BUT IT BECAME LESS AND LESS AND LESS TILL THERE WAS NOT HARDLY A FLY LEFT. WHICH WAS AWLSOME. SO BYE BYE FLY!
Little tree vanilla car vent fresheners work too. We cut them in 3 pieces and put them on our hats, caps, collars, or shirt pockets to keep flies, biting gnats, and mosquitos away.
Thank you for the video -- very interesting. Just remember that many essential oils are toxic to cats, especially if they're exposed to it through a diffuser -- it can permanently damage their liver. If I remember correctly, lavender is also effective against many insects. Wishing you all the best!
@@alrinaleroux9229 I wonder if it is certain oils? Either way I will shut them out of the room I use the diffuser in. Don't want to risk my fur babies getting sick.
@@KatiTheButcher Hi FrankieBoi Sinatra, I read that it's most essential oils. (You can check specific ones on the Internet.) The toxic effect may build up over time. By the time it becomes clear that the cat is ailing, the damage has been done. Glad you're taking good care of them!
I was about to ask about wasps. Thanks 👍. I heard on the radio a while back that you could feed honey bees. It was hot, not much rain ( before the bastrop complex fire) but I would put out sugar water, like you would for humming birds and watch witch way the bees would come from and head back. There were 4,5 hives. If you never tried this it’s pretty cool.
I love my honey! Another source of sweet that is really easy is stevia. Easy to grow, easy to propagate, grows in abundance, and easy to harvest. Cut the stems strip off the leaves to dry, stick cuttings in soil and you have new plants as you harvest until you have it growing everywhere. It even comes back after a zone 8 winter. It super sweet but I love honey in my coffee. I have bees in my house between first and second floor. I may have to cut a hole in my office ceiling to collect some rent honey. I bought them a hive but I can’t bribe them to use it.
Boy am I glad you didn't say that Flys hate Black Ice air fresheners, because I hate those things lol. I worked on a car that had over 20 Black Ice air fresheners hanging from their rear view mirror. Needless to say, I took the mirror off and put it outside until the work was finished 😆 🤣
A friend just told me last week she sprays on cheap vanilla perfume and it keeps the mosquitos and tics away...go figure? There is a wild hive around here...somewhere but I can't find the tree.
I used to get a lot of flies in my home, but I did the water bag with a penny in it and that reduced flys in my home greatly, I wonder if the vanilla scent would work in my goat pen.
A penny? Lol hmmm we always used quarters and it worked. I saw it at a small family owned restaurant years ago, no ac just fans and the doors were always open with screen doors on them. We never had flies inside when we were eating.
Very needed information. We already have fly problems this spring. Damn things swarm the front of our house so every time the doors open they slip in. We will be using vanilla now. Thanks bud.
take a coffee filter. fill it with sage rosemary mint. tyme. lavender . lemon peels staple it closed. on a strand of yarn string an hang it over the door.
I worked for a cattle operation 7 years ago and one old house on property that was rented when we tore down house the entire upstairs floors where full an 2 of 4 walls. When we rebuild some fence on ther part of property we found 5 hickory trees that were hollow and full bee.
We've used insecticide cattle ear tags around the doors, works pretty good, but they don't smell like vanilla, and they're quite a bit more expensive. Be worth a try :D
Listen to you from up in Northern Ontario. Love THE channel. Keep going. Working on establishing our own homestead out in unorganized territory. Loving it! God bless you.
It’s funny bc we think Lavender and Vanilla are just a goof smell combo we use now for fun (and other herbs/flowers), but really they are fantastic insect repellents with the added bonus of smelling and tasting good.
Our elementary school when I was enrolled there had alot of white clover and in the spring some kid would get stung during recess just about every day at school, especially girls who were looking for 4 leaf clovers 🍀 because they were on the ground looking through the clover
Vanilla fly spray is easy to make and definitely eliminates the black fly issue while working in the garden/yard. Just spray it on your hat and clothes. I wonder if you could spray your farm animals also
Also, I have a parrot, and normally scented anything is a bad idea; but, from my research (which is limited and still ongoing), it seems to be safe for them.
I wonder if there would be some advantage to adding vanilla to fly spray for my animals....since I have noticed that most fly sprays don't last too long.
You do know that honey bees aren't the only insect pollinators? You could make some pollinator nesting boxes for the insect pollinators that were designed to pollinate specific flowers. You might be surprised to what a difference it might do.
Oxalic acid is how you become a successful beekeeper. It’s naturally occurring it doesn’t harm bees but it devastates The Varroa mites. The difference between treating for Varroa mites and not treating for Varroa mites is the difference between whether or not you want to be a perennial beekeeper or an annual beekeeper
honey bees aren't native to the U.S, the winters in the North will easily kill off the hive, that's why bee keepers buy queens from the south. some operations haul there whole production to the south, rent out the hives.
@@purplepotatofarmstand the reason northern beekeepers buy Southern reared queens is because packages are available in march and April. Northern raised queens and packages often aren’t ready until May or June. Northern reared queens actually have a higher overwinter success rate. Transporting bees to the south is more of a financial decision. There’s allot of money to be made pollinating. So much so that the honey is a secondary consideration, and is sometimes a nuisance, since the full supers make it necessary to service the hive more often to keep the bees from swarming.
New to your channel and appreciate your content. Spraying Pinesol on the doors and walls outside keep the flies away too. We have chickens right outside the back door and the flies used to be horrendous until I started the Pinesol spray. Also...If am growing Stevia for natural sugar. I failed on the sugar beets.
Part of my problem is I live somewhere where summer is super hot so we not only have water for our indoor bunnies and cats, but it's significantly cooler in here. I will absolutely try the vanilla scents. I tried the FlyFixed thing but it's not working very well.
My thoughts exactly- I suspect they hate the CHEMICAL vanilla fragrance on those tree air fresheners. I certainly do! Essential oils, I think not so much. Hoping for a follow-up, Zach!
@@autiemuse agreed, I looked them up on Amazon, they are synthetic chemical fragrances, I would avoid. I've rid my home of chemical cleaners, detergents, soaps, hygiene products, and even the toxic petrochemical fabrics/clothing and now only wear linen, wool, cashmere, and cotton.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 did you notice a worthwhile improvement in your quality of life after that transition? (Being dead serious) Particularly the clothing transition.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 Me too Elizabeth. When ever I used those plug in air fresheners I suffered from "RESTLESS LEG" syndrome. It was horrible. My friend at the time though it was my imagination so he secretly plugged one in in the bedroom where I couldn't detect it. Within a couple of days the restless leg syndrome returned. He then told me what he did. I was so ticked off but then he finally believed me. I haven't used any synthetic air fresheners in 18 years. They are designed to wreck havoc on our central nervous system. The evil doers KNOW this. Look at what big pharma makes in meds for restless leg syndrome plus the "white coat" appointment.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 On top of that the synthetic clothing attracts EMF (electromagnetic frequency) radiation. Notice how much more relaxed you are with cotton clothing opposed to sythetic. Especially while driving in the microwave boxes these days.
I'm so excited to try this!!!! We have to make a run into town tomorrow & my first stop will be to buy vanilla air freshners!!!!! Hopefully my goats won't eat them ☺️ I'll be sure to hang them high
I dont know about vanilla for flies......but pure vanilla extract is GREAT for cover scent while hunting.......I have deer walk across the field nose in the air to find out what the smell is.....also have them sniffing the rungs of my stand ladder.
I read that typical honey bees don't pollinate tomatoes, that it's actually a different type of bee. We have had zero tomatoes and lots of blooms...not sure why. I have not used any chemicals on my garden.
Tomato blossoms are self pollinating. You yourself can be the bee by jiggling them a little bit with your finger tip, which shakes some pollen loose from the anthers onto the pistils.
On all the homesteader channels, I want to know what state you're in. Please make a note somewhere what state you're in the more section. That would help a lot. Thanks. Very interesting video. :)
I'm so glad my goats and chickens are close by. Praising Yah for giving me foresight *m gonna have to try the Vanilla Trees! What about in the chicken coop and goat barn? Great tips! Shalom Brother 🥰
I look out my front door at my ducks and goats, who are less than 20’ away. I think flies are demons released from the pit of hell, although my ducklings love when I kill them and bring them fresh fly meat treats. I love vanilla and will definitely try the vanilla air fresheners. I tried fly traps recently that worked very well but whatever the substance was that was inside to attract the flies did not smell anything like vanilla. I love your homesteading videos, as much as I love your New2Torah ones.
The easiest way for bees is to find a local beekeeper and let them put a hive from spring to fall. That's what my Dad did and we always got a jar of honey for letting him keep the hives in our hay field and near our garden area.
Keep in mind that honey can save you in many ways. Please don't not utilize it at least as wound treatment. Rinse a deep cut, slap raw honey INTO the wound. Wrap it, use a zipper if needed and in 2-3 days the flesh will have fused and most internal damage as well. (I say this from experience. Stitches sucked and headed super slowly so I was sick of them and tried this. No joke I will never go for stitches unless it has to be re attached or is to gouged to keep in place to heal. Even then I will demand it's use in the treatment I place of chemical substitutes. Look it up. If you don't process the proteins to death, they are considered RAW unassigned Protein. With that, your body make any cell on the spot. Your body will abandon the scabbing (scaffold) process and go right to repairs. All because it doesn't have to transport/produce new cells because they are already plentiful right there. And while fixing the wound it's also killing bad bacteria that would cause infection.
The flies have been driving me crazier than normal this year. I'm considering investing in an air curtain for the front door. They are low wattage 🤷♀️
I love the suggestion of bleach in the drains. However, I tried the vanilla car fresheners...that very brand you're holding...in my duck house (5'x8' enclosed) with fairly clean pine shavings on the floor & NO success. I hung 3 of them right outside my front door on the porch because every time my dog goes in or out his dog door, flies come in. Well, nobody sent the message to my west coast flies cuz they weren't the least bit put off by vanilla!
That is so helpful! I wonder if it works with cluster flies, we get them and they are SO GROSS. They are like normal house flies but hang out in huge groups. I think it is so funny we have exactly those same air fresheners all the way over here in New Zealand
take a mint tea bag and peppermint oil an soak the tea bag in it an hang it over the door. and windows and cat litter box. and areas were smell of decaying materials shows up. such as trash cans. Flys hate the smell of mint same for garlic
They poop on absolutely everywhere! I tried the venella seint and it really hasn't helped that I noticed? I know we have All kinds of different sized fly's! But wonder if it takes a sirent kind? But you mentioned the deal about people killing animals and I can't believe it but it has happened to us twice! The first time was on St Patrick's day and My big dog Tezzie was out in our pasture playing with the horse's and somebody shoot and killed her! So decusting and broke my heart and then about nine months later someone shoot and killed one of our ponys and two of our piglets!!! WTH is wrong with them??
Only open the plastic from the top of the little tree...the scent seems to last longer is you don't completely unwrap it...
Yes they work just like fabric softener sheets keep wasps out of mail boxes because they are TOXIC so be sure to use with caution. Thanks for the tip it may be worth the the trade off in this case. Shalom
I grew up in the Rockies and we use to go get wild raspberries. You always looked at the trees because bears scratch as high as they can to place ownership on the raspberry bush. That scratching post was claiming the hive.
Just watched your video. My Father passed away in 2020 at the age of 82. And he told me that yes you could find the hive by following a bee. We grew flowers and veggies at the house. And we didn't use much weed killer, so we always had bees and he would watch them and he told about doing that as a boy. The part of Delhi township where he grew up was mostly 5 acre farms and most of the men could and did other work.
I put these around my brooder to keep the flies away. It also seems to keep gnats and other stuff away as well. These things really do work.
Man I wish I would have known this when I went to Harbor Freight today.
I had a damned black fly following me and kept biting me on the back of my head and neck.
Had I known I would have worn a couple around my neck and got weird looks from everyone…..lol.
@@konaken1035
That right….lol.
I could make a rap video too….haha.
I tried this around my coop it works
I have for many years mixed vanilla extract, dish soap and water in a spray bottle and mist it all around.
Works great!
Yep my chickens and horses are about 150ft away. I've been happily Bug-A-Salting the skyraisins. Good to know about the drain bleaching! Biting flies carry diseases.
I love my bug a salt!
@@KatiTheButcher I just ordered mine... looking forward to blasting some.
This is so interesting. I have a wax melt doo hickey and am currently using sugar cookie scented melts (very vanilla-y). Now that you mention it, I actually notice a reduction in fly traffic around our house but never thought it was the scent until just now. Good info!
As I was watching this video, walking from the garage to the kitchen, a houseful flew in. 😂
I use a few drops of tea tree oil/oregano oil in a water spray...I spray the doorways, window screens, & rugs...& the dogs, coops. The aroma dissipates, but not to flies, fleas, & ticks, plus it serves as a microbial thru-out. Diatomaceous Earth routinely sprinkled on poo areas works great, too. Gonna try your idea...seems simple, cheap & nose-worthy! Thanks, Papason! :)
How much tea tree oil, Organo oil and how much water to spray on my dog? Be safe my friend.
My grandad successfully raised honey bees out here in so. California.
There was a candy maker company near him that gave him the imperfect candy. He put it in a big trash can near the white bee boxes where he kept his bees. He would also take the bees up north to pollenate the almond trees and I guess other trees that needed pollenating.
He did very well and everyone always had their share of honey with no shortages, and plenty to share with neighbors and friends...
He said he only got stung a couple of times for all the years he did that
He has passed or I'd ask more questions for him to answer.
Good Luck!!
We were thinking about raising them too, but we have 100s of acres that nobody is near, so I think it would work out good...I'll let you all know.
Great channel...
Just found you...
I'll be back!!!
Thanks for the info..gonna try it the next time we go into town.
Kcl
Where abouts do yall have 100s of acres
my friend lives in Cincinnati OH, she has 3 hives in a city backyard. They can sit anywhere, honey bees aren't aggressive.
Flies have been horrible here. I'll have to try this. I'm sure it's better than those smelly fly traps.
ONE TIME WHEN I STILL LIVED IN THE CITY, MY NEXT DOOR FRIENDS TRASH CAN WERE ON THE SAME SIDE AS OURS WERE AND THEY HAD TWO DOGS IN THE BACK YARD. AFTER BEING THERE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS THE FLIES GOT SO BAD I COULDN'T TAKE IT MUCH MORE. SO I WENT TO WALMRT AND BUT THESE BIG STICKY MOUSE GLUE STRIPES AND LAYED A COUPLE OVER EACH CAN AND LEFT FOR A BIT, CAME BACK AND BOTH WERE COVERED WITH FLIES. I WENT AND GOT MORE AND EVERYDAY OR SO I CHECKED THEY WERE COVER WITH FLIES, BUT IT BECAME LESS AND LESS AND LESS TILL THERE WAS NOT HARDLY A FLY LEFT. WHICH WAS AWLSOME. SO BYE BYE FLY!
Little tree vanilla car vent fresheners work too. We cut them in 3 pieces and put them on our hats, caps, collars, or shirt pockets to keep flies, biting gnats, and mosquitos away.
Thank you for the video -- very interesting.
Just remember that many essential oils are toxic to cats, especially if they're exposed to it through a diffuser -- it can permanently damage their liver.
If I remember correctly, lavender is also effective against many insects.
Wishing you all the best!
Didnt know that. Do they have to be close to it?
@@KatiTheButcher I read that cats can be poisoned when they breathe in vapors, or even by absorbing chemicals through their skin.
@@alrinaleroux9229 I wonder if it is certain oils? Either way I will shut them out of the room I use the diffuser in. Don't want to risk my fur babies getting sick.
@@KatiTheButcher Hi FrankieBoi Sinatra, I read that it's most essential oils. (You can check specific ones on the Internet.) The toxic effect may build up over time. By the time it becomes clear that the cat is ailing, the damage has been done.
Glad you're taking good care of them!
@@alrinaleroux9229 thanks for the tip, I would have never known otherwse. Glad I haven't been usig it much.
That's a riot. Beats having a dozen sticky fly ribbons hanging all over the place lol
I was about to ask about wasps. Thanks 👍. I heard on the radio a while back that you could feed honey bees. It was hot, not much rain ( before the bastrop complex fire) but I would put out sugar water, like you would for humming birds and watch witch way the bees would come from and head back. There were 4,5 hives. If you never tried this it’s pretty cool.
My friend works at a feed lot. I told him about this hack and he's going to try hanging the vanilla trees in the tractors and trucks at his work.
I love my honey! Another source of sweet that is really easy is stevia. Easy to grow, easy to propagate, grows in abundance, and easy to harvest. Cut the stems strip off the leaves to dry, stick cuttings in soil and you have new plants as you harvest until you have it growing everywhere. It even comes back after a zone 8 winter.
It super sweet but I love honey in my coffee. I have bees in my house between first and second floor. I may have to cut a hole in my office ceiling to collect some rent honey. I bought them a hive but I can’t bribe them to use it.
you need the queen in the hive first...
@@purplepotatofarmstand yes I’ve come to learn that. I will have to do an extraction I suppose.
@@soniabrannan412 thank you.
Boy am I glad you didn't say that Flys hate Black Ice air fresheners, because I hate those things lol. I worked on a car that had over 20 Black Ice air fresheners hanging from their rear view mirror. Needless to say, I took the mirror off and put it outside until the work was finished 😆 🤣
The fly in this video was hilarious!! 😂
I've heard to dab a little vanilla on your skin to keep away mosquitoes too... Think I'll try it!
I have a swatter shaped like a tennis racket. Dance Mailman Dance! Yes it is battery powered! 💕
A friend just told me last week she sprays on cheap vanilla perfume and it keeps the mosquitos and tics away...go figure?
There is a wild hive around here...somewhere but I can't find the tree.
Finally, congratulations on 200k Zack, you deserve it buddy
I used to get a lot of flies in my home, but I did the water bag with a penny in it and that reduced flys in my home greatly, I wonder if the vanilla scent would work in my goat pen.
A penny? Lol hmmm we always used quarters and it worked. I saw it at a small family owned restaurant years ago, no ac just fans and the doors were always open with screen doors on them. We never had flies inside when we were eating.
How did you know I needed this video. Flies have been HORRIBLE, and since I just have them in my backyard, the flies are inside now too.
My husband hates flys, this is great info will try it ty!
I wonder then if wearing vanilla perfume would work as repellant?
Very needed information. We already have fly problems this spring. Damn things swarm the front of our house so every time the doors open they slip in. We will be using vanilla now. Thanks bud.
take a coffee filter. fill it with sage rosemary mint. tyme. lavender . lemon peels staple it closed. on a strand of yarn string an hang it over the door.
Your video is sooooo timely, been chacing 2 flies this morning! Thank you!!
LOL! Jokes on you! In AR, ticks are even on the trees and they drop on you. 😂
I might try this with pine scent
I worked for a cattle operation 7 years ago and one old house on property that was rented when we tore down house the entire upstairs floors where full an 2 of 4 walls. When we rebuild some fence on ther part of property we found 5 hickory trees that were hollow and full bee.
We've used insecticide cattle ear tags around the doors, works pretty good, but they don't smell like vanilla, and they're quite a bit more expensive. Be worth a try :D
Listen to you from up in Northern Ontario. Love THE channel. Keep going. Working on establishing our own homestead out in unorganized territory. Loving it! God bless you.
Thumbs up,love the idea. I'm going to try this today.
I put vanilla oil on a flyswatter. Works every time.
You can spray full strength pine sol too cause flies hate that smell...i tried it and it does work.
It’s funny bc we think Lavender and Vanilla are just a goof smell combo we use now for fun (and other herbs/flowers), but really they are fantastic insect repellents with the added bonus of smelling and tasting good.
Our elementary school when I was enrolled there had alot of white clover and in the spring some kid would get stung during recess just about every day at school, especially girls who were looking for 4 leaf clovers 🍀 because they were on the ground looking through the clover
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I put lavender oil around my neck to keep the small flies from buzzing around my ears! Awesome video!
Vanilla fly spray is easy to make and definitely eliminates the black fly issue while working in the garden/yard. Just spray it on your hat and clothes. I wonder if you could spray your farm animals also
Wow I had no idea. Thanks for info.
I’m going to give this a shot. THANKS!!!
Also, I have a parrot, and normally scented anything is a bad idea; but, from my research (which is limited and still ongoing), it seems to be safe for them.
I wonder if there would be some advantage to adding vanilla to fly spray for my animals....since I have noticed that most fly sprays don't last too long.
That would be an interesting experiment, let us know when you try it
Who doen't like the smell of vanilla? FLIES !!! 🤣
We used this for years. We use them in spring when Buffalo gnats show up. Like you said hang in doorways in hutches, coops, barn , shed.
You do know that honey bees aren't the only insect pollinators? You could make some pollinator nesting boxes for the insect pollinators that were designed to pollinate specific flowers. You might be surprised to what a difference it might do.
Oxalic acid is how you become a successful beekeeper. It’s naturally occurring it doesn’t harm bees but it devastates The Varroa mites. The difference between treating for Varroa mites and not treating for Varroa mites is the difference between whether or not you want to be a perennial beekeeper or an annual beekeeper
honey bees aren't native to the U.S, the winters in the North will easily kill off the hive, that's why bee keepers buy queens from the south. some operations haul there whole production to the south, rent out the hives.
@@purplepotatofarmstand the reason northern beekeepers buy Southern reared queens is because packages are available in march and April. Northern raised queens and packages often aren’t ready until May or June. Northern reared queens actually have a higher overwinter success rate. Transporting bees to the south is more of a financial decision. There’s allot of money to be made pollinating. So much so that the honey is a secondary consideration, and is sometimes a nuisance, since the full supers make it necessary to service the hive more often to keep the bees from swarming.
Awesome! I will try this because around my homestead they're awful! I'm sure my animals will appreciate it too.
Thank you for this information..
I'm so trying this!
New to your channel and appreciate your content.
Spraying Pinesol on the doors and walls outside keep the flies away too. We have chickens right outside the back door and the flies used to be horrendous until I started the Pinesol spray.
Also...If am growing Stevia for natural sugar. I failed on the sugar beets.
Sounds like I'm about to hang vanilla air fresheners around our doors, and all around the chicken coop and rabbit shed!
I never would of thought Vanilla Air Freshener would deter Flies
Thank you! We will be getting some. I wonder how it would work with other insects. 🤔
We have plenty of vanilla for our diffuser. 🙂
irish spring soap works also it repeals snakes like mothballs two
The original Irish Spring bar soap also deters flies.
I just subscribed my hubby! I can see you now at 200k congratulations!
Thanks. Ill try it.
Part of my problem is I live somewhere where summer is super hot so we not only have water for our indoor bunnies and cats, but it's significantly cooler in here. I will absolutely try the vanilla scents. I tried the FlyFixed thing but it's not working very well.
Here in the South we use Vanilla spray to deter the Mosquitoes from biting.
I doubt the "little trees" have any natural vanilla in them. I'll be interested to hear if the vanilla essential oil work as well as the little trees.
My thoughts exactly- I suspect they hate the CHEMICAL vanilla fragrance on those tree air fresheners. I certainly do! Essential oils, I think not so much. Hoping for a follow-up, Zach!
@@autiemuse agreed, I looked them up on Amazon, they are synthetic chemical fragrances, I would avoid. I've rid my home of chemical cleaners, detergents, soaps, hygiene products, and even the toxic petrochemical fabrics/clothing and now only wear linen, wool, cashmere, and cotton.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 did you notice a worthwhile improvement in your quality of life after that transition? (Being dead serious)
Particularly the clothing transition.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 Me too Elizabeth. When ever I used those plug in air fresheners I suffered from "RESTLESS LEG" syndrome. It was horrible. My friend at the time though it was my imagination so he secretly plugged one in in the bedroom where I couldn't detect it. Within a couple of days the restless leg syndrome returned. He then told me what he did. I was so ticked off but then he finally believed me. I haven't used any synthetic air fresheners in 18 years. They are designed to wreck havoc on our central nervous system. The evil doers KNOW this. Look at what big pharma makes in meds for restless leg syndrome plus the "white coat" appointment.
@@elizabethpeterson8597 On top of that the synthetic clothing attracts EMF (electromagnetic frequency) radiation. Notice how much more relaxed you are with cotton clothing opposed to sythetic. Especially while driving in the microwave boxes these days.
I'm so excited to try this!!!! We have to make a run into town tomorrow & my first stop will be to buy vanilla air freshners!!!!! Hopefully my goats won't eat them ☺️ I'll be sure to hang them high
You might try cedar chips cedar mulch it's great for your Gardens keeping the bugs out and I think flies don't like the smell of Cedar either
I dont know about vanilla for flies......but pure vanilla extract is GREAT for cover scent while hunting.......I have deer walk across the field nose in the air to find out what the smell is.....also have them sniffing the rungs of my stand ladder.
The restaurants in New Orleans use plastic bags filled with water with two to three pennies in each.
I read that typical honey bees don't pollinate tomatoes, that it's actually a different type of bee.
We have had zero tomatoes and lots of blooms...not sure why. I have not used any chemicals on my garden.
Tomato blossoms are self pollinating. You yourself can be the bee by jiggling them a little bit with your finger tip, which shakes some pollen loose from the anthers onto the pistils.
Thank you I'll try this
You should set hive body near there to try and lure a swarm into, in the spring , that tree not big so I am shore they swarm every yr
That's awesome! I will try it, ty
try lemon balm too, in searching for more videos on vanilla. I found a lady using lemon balm leaf's in the chicken coup and the flies left.
we have a cat who is having his 1 year birthday tomorrow, his name is izzy, he is a pro bug getter
What about vanilla extract?
Water down? As a spray
( since it is so expensive)
vanilla essential oil only ?
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On all the homesteader channels, I want to know what state you're in. Please make a note somewhere what state you're in the more section. That would help a lot. Thanks. Very interesting video. :)
I'm so glad my goats and chickens are close by. Praising Yah for giving me foresight *m gonna have to try the Vanilla Trees! What about in the chicken coop and goat barn? Great tips! Shalom Brother 🥰
I look out my front door at my ducks and goats, who are less than 20’ away. I think flies are demons released from the pit of hell, although my ducklings love when I kill them and bring them fresh fly meat treats. I love vanilla and will definitely try the vanilla air fresheners. I tried fly traps recently that worked very well but whatever the substance was that was inside to attract the flies did not smell anything like vanilla. I love your homesteading videos, as much as I love your New2Torah ones.
The easiest way for bees is to find a local beekeeper and let them put a hive from spring to fall. That's what my Dad did and we always got a jar of honey for letting him keep the hives in our hay field and near our garden area.
Definitely going to try this trick! Thanks for sharing!
Keep in mind that honey can save you in many ways. Please don't not utilize it at least as wound treatment. Rinse a deep cut, slap raw honey INTO the wound. Wrap it, use a zipper if needed and in 2-3 days the flesh will have fused and most internal damage as well. (I say this from experience. Stitches sucked and headed super slowly so I was sick of them and tried this. No joke I will never go for stitches unless it has to be re attached or is to gouged to keep in place to heal. Even then I will demand it's use in the treatment I place of chemical substitutes.
Look it up. If you don't process the proteins to death, they are considered RAW unassigned Protein. With that, your body make any cell on the spot. Your body will abandon the scabbing (scaffold) process and go right to repairs. All because it doesn't have to transport/produce new cells because they are already plentiful right there. And while fixing the wound it's also killing bad bacteria that would cause infection.
@@soniabrannan412 Royal Jelly is supreme lol. But you'll find that cheeper in your hive.
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the real homestead tour/talk.
The flies have been driving me crazier than normal this year. I'm considering investing in an air curtain for the front door. They are low wattage 🤷♀️
Thanks for the tip :)
Thanks
I would like to know what other ingredients are in it. Would rather try essential oils.
Love all ur videos, Zach!!! Torah ones, too!!! 😊❤️😊
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I love the suggestion of bleach in the drains. However, I tried the vanilla car fresheners...that very brand you're holding...in my duck house (5'x8' enclosed) with fairly clean pine shavings on the floor & NO success. I hung 3 of them right outside my front door on the porch because every time my dog goes in or out his dog door, flies come in. Well, nobody sent the message to my west coast flies cuz they weren't the least bit put off by vanilla!
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I’ve heard Irish spring soap also helps deter flies
That is so helpful! I wonder if it works with cluster flies, we get them and they are SO GROSS. They are like normal house flies but hang out in huge groups. I think it is so funny we have exactly those same air fresheners all the way over here in New Zealand
Us too in Scotland (UK in general). New trend; walking around with vanilla air fresheners around our necks...smile.
I need something for outside. I wonder how this will work inside the barn.
take a mint tea bag and peppermint oil an soak the tea bag in it an hang it over the door. and windows and cat litter box. and areas were smell of decaying materials shows up. such as trash cans. Flys hate the smell of mint same for garlic
I'll have to see if vanilla is toxic to dobermans...hope not..
Thanks for the info.
What about vanilla candles?? 😊
They poop on absolutely everywhere! I tried the venella seint and it really hasn't helped that I noticed? I know we have All kinds of different sized fly's! But wonder if it takes a sirent kind? But you mentioned the deal about people killing animals and I can't believe it but it has happened to us twice! The first time was on St Patrick's day and My big dog Tezzie was out in our pasture playing with the horse's and somebody shoot and killed her! So decusting and broke my heart and then about nine months later someone shoot and killed one of our ponys and two of our piglets!!! WTH is wrong with them??
Very interesting I've tried pretty much everything even using soap Irish Spring didn't work