Cluster flies

So much for the idea of installing halogen downlighters in the new bathroom. Got up in the loft, plugged in the portable floodlight so I'd have some light while the upstairs lighting circuit was switched off, and within

2 minutes, the loft looked like something out of a horror movie. Rapid exit stage downwards, followed by about 30 or 40 flies - about 0.1% of the ones in the loft.

The floodlight's still up there (unplugged). I think I'll wait until midwinter to recover it.

And we'll forget about the downlighters. They'd be full of dead flies within about 90 seconds.

Bloody disgusting things. Lets hope nothing goes wrong with the plumbing up there.

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Huge
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Perhaps the compost heap would be better off at the end of the garden like everyone elses.

Reply to
Guy King

Or find another resting place for your Granny.

Jaymack

Reply to
John McLean

Yep we have the buggers too !! in abundance. I have devised the best way to get rid of them is to wait until a calm freezing day (not far away now) tin or two of flyspray, lift the loft hatch, spray entire can into the loft, this drives them nuts and they will come swarming out where they die due to the cold!! I had someone come running down the road when I did it first thinking my roof was on fire!! the swarm looked like smoke! The scene then changed to hitchcocks the birds, as all the birds in the vicinity had a free lunch.

I used to keep tham down with the vapona fly blocks, but they have been withdrawn from the market.

They lay their eggs in marshy ground and the hatchlings look for shelter (lofts) around end of sept beggining oct (now!) apparently once you get em you will not be rid of them as they leave a distinct scent for other hatches to follow, so its just a case of control. Local Councils charge a fortune for treatment but dont bother they'll be back !! they arent destructive in anyway or apparently a health issue, just a bloody nuisance, I stock up around this time of year on cheap fly spray from the pound shop. One of the little bugbears of living in the sticks :-)

Reply to
Staffbull

My son had them when there was a derelict building full of pigeons next door. No sign of them since it was demolished

Reply to
Stuart Noble

They're only flies for goodness' sake - they don't bite or sting even!

Mary

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Reply to
Mary Fisher

Not mine, there's one between the porch and the dining room window and the other is about half way down the back garden. I'm not walking to the bottom of the garden every time I need to empty kitchen waste.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Have you got 10,000 of the little buggers in your house? I for one poison any pest that doesnt belong in the house !! and the nicley nicley brigade can go whistle :-)

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Staffbull

Ahh, someone who's not opened a window in autumn/spring and had about a pint of flies fall out of it. At least in spring they're nearly all dead. How would you feel, for example, if every time you inhaled you got half a dozen in your mouth/nose? 40 or 50 stuck in your hair? That the light fittings were so full of flies they burst into flames?

Yes, they're "only" flies, and they do indeed neither bite nor sting. But the numbers of them make them an unacceptable house guest.

I have ordered a roof-space insectocutor, and have every intention of using it.

10,000? I expect there's 20 or 30 times that many in the roof-space.
Reply to
Huge

Not as far as I know.

I suppose it depends what you call a pest.

I've never heard of a nicley.

Mary

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Reply to
Mary Fisher

The other night I wondered why I was looking at listings for leather knickers on Ebay.

Then I realised they were leather Kickers which was quite respectable in the footwear section.

Owain

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Owain

Someone, staying at a boarding house complained of a dead flea in her bed. Landlady asked what she was complaining about "It is dead, after all". Guest replied, "Oh I didn't mind about the dead flead. It was the thousand that attended the funeral that worried me".

Regards from New Zealand on a very warm but wet Monday morning.

David

-- David Love They who commit a mistake and do not correct it commit another mistake

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David Love

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