Flying Insect Control for Commercial Garbage Bin Rooms and Chutes (Flies/Fruit Flies)
Flies and fruit flies can be particularly problematic in some garbage bin rooms, while others seem to have no issues at all.
There are 3 solutions which can greatly help the control of flying insects (such as flies, fruit flies, etc) in your bin room or garbage chute:
1) Pyrethrin as an optional additive to scenting system. If you have one of our commercial scenting systems (such as the Garbage Doctor® Duo, or Garbage Doctor® Scenting upgrade), we can add this natural insecticide to your scenting solution, which gets dispersed into the chute (and/or bin room). This can greatly assist with all types of flying insects.
2) Pyrethrin as a surface spray in your bin room. Typically a treatment will involve spraying the top half of the bin room with a pyrethrin/water mixture to provide several months of protection. We offer this as a service to our existing customers, however we are also happy to point your team in the right direction so they can purchase the product and do it themselves, if preferred. Please contact us for more details.
3) Ultraviolet Fly Traps are another option which is very effective against flies (but less effective against the small fruit flies) We have these available for rental with our commercial odour control systems, but they can also be found online or at your local hardware store.
For most bin rooms we recommend a commercial solution with a UV lamp of at least 20W or higher, installed near the source of rubbish. Stay away from ‘decorative’ features – a garbage room is a a relatively hostile environment, and you need something that is ‘all business’ without the other features which may be beneficial for residential or food preparation applications.
Although they are not an insecticide, our Garbage Doctor® equipment can also assist – by helping to improve overall hygiene in your bin room. This equipment runs 24/7/365 to control odours and germs, with the option to pleasantly fragrance the area also.
Example of Ultraviolet Fly Trap
Selecting a UV Fly Trap for your Garbage Room
When selecting your fly trap, it is important to get the right kind of product for waste management applications.
Generally speaking, there are two methods of capturing flying insects – either by zapping them with an electric grid, or using a ‘Glueboard’.
For commercial garbage rooms, we recommend using electric-grid style bug zappers, and avoiding the Glueboard Fly Killers, here’s why:
- Electric-grid style fly traps have the benefit of not requiring one side of the device to be taken up by the Glueboard. This means they can be suspended from the ceiling (a chain is generally included with the equipment), giving full 360 light and dramatically increasing their effectiveness per wattage – the more UV light that is emitted, the more likely flies and fruit flies are to be attracted.
- Electric fly traps are generally ‘self-cleaning’ and do not lose any of their effectiveness over time as a Glueboard will. The only maintenance (other than lamp replacement) is emptying the catch-container, which generally will last many months in most garbage rooms.
- Glueboards are great for kitchen and food preparation areas, but in a garbage room the Glueboads will fill up with insects very quickly, which continually reduces their effectiveness. We have entered many bin rooms where a Glueboard UV flytrap has been installed, and almost always the Glueboard changes have been neglected or are so infrequent that the device is relatively ineffective.
Suppliers of UV Fly Traps / Insect Control Systems
We can supply fly/insect traps for your bin room as part of a Garbage Doctor® package, which would also include maintenance such as regular test & tagging, lamp replacements etc. We can also provide pyrethrin solutions including additives to your scenting system or bin room surface sprays. However if you would prefer to purchase a UV fly trap out-right, we can suggest a couple of options below:
Insect-o-matic is a UK made product, with a wide range of insect control solutions, including electric fly traps. In particular we have used and can recommend their SE22 and SE44 products.
Bunnings Warehouse have a range of fly traps also. We have seen their 40W Commercial range of bug zappers installed in some garbage rooms, and they seem to have pretty good success, especially considering the relatively low price.
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