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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, you need to get rid of the attraction, but to catch the ones that are leaving the dead animal, you  can make a fly jar for your house.  Take a jar with a metal lid, cut an X in the lid (use a sharp knife, put the point on the lid and then tap the handle until the knife sinks in, repeat  until you have a small X).  Use a screwdriver to bend the leaves of the X down and pointing into the jar.  You want the whole opening to only be about 1/4 - 1/2 an inch diameter, so not too big.  You want the flies to be able to get in, but not get out.  Fill the jar about 1/2 with water.  Use a knife put some molasses or sweet and fragrant jam (cheap strawberry preserves work well) on the inside of the lid, spread it thick.  Put the lid back on.  Leave the jar out somewhere where you can watch it (and know when to switch it out).  The flies will smell the bait, will fly/crawl into the jar, they won't be able to get out and they will end up in the water, drowning and dying.  This will control the flies that are flying around.  You can empty the jar outside in the gutter, rinse and restart or just use a new jar.

After the dead animal is gone, the flies will stop and you can get rid of the fly jar.[/quote]

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