Move your lightly cupped, relaxed hand behind the fly. Then suddenly accelerate and grab the fly that got startled into flying into your hand by the movement.
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Get a dish towel wet and use that to swat at the fly. The weight of the water and the extra length of the towel let's you get it going faster than the fly can react.
If you want to catch then when they land you can slowly approach them with both hands like you're gonna clap. They will try to avoid one hand and fly to the other hand and you can catch it.
Fan works. Bubble maker like the one on weddings can discourage fly and mosquitoes.
I use rubber band like on a rubber band pistols to shoot them when they land.
Let the friendly lizard and spiders stay around the house. They will help you get rid of them.
Fly strips work. They work even better after catching a few flies (I guess misery loves company!). They're cheap too.
The vinegar thing is for fruit flies or gnats - it doesn't really work on typical house flies.
Or... you could use a fly gun. ..... : D
Warning about those hanging fly traps. I used them and somehow the glue got aerosolized and spread to every surface of my apartment. I never no idea how this happened but everything I own was covered in brown sticky dots. It was a mother fucker to clean.
I open a window and they fly to it. Then I shut them out.
I bought a couple of these for around the house. https://a.co/d/5vjsVs3 Works very well but mostly at night.
Also to make sure you regularly do the dishes, take out trash and clean up any food sources for the flies. After using the above and doing the above, mine went from insanity to maybe 1 or 2 around the house in about a week or two.
Not sure what kind of beasts you have but some apple cider vinegar and dish soap works like a charm for me. Definitely need to find the source though. Usually itβs some old fruit that got left out somewhere.
The apple cider vinegar gets fruit flies but the house flies just aren't interested.