If you spent any time in your garden over the weekend, then chances are your house is now the home to a number of irritating flies. Your desire for coolness and your willingness to throw open the doors has come back to haunt you and now, even worse, you've been warned not to kill the pesky things.
As flies, wasps and bees are all important pollinators, if you kill them, you're doing a bad thing to the planet. But ideally, they'd be outside and not flying past your ears when you're trying to sleep. Or landing on your sandwich in the kitchen while you're making it. Gross.
So what can you do? Well, experts have come up with a guide on how to deter flies from living with you using no chemicals and nothing harmful to anyone. Apparently flies absolutely hate the deliciously scented herbs basil and mint, so if you place those plants around your home, flies will be absolutely disgusted.
