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[magical trevor]

Hi peeps.

Well I'll begin from the beginning. Past few days in the west of scotland havent been too bad weather wise so I had my windows on open "tilt" to get the air circulating on sat afternoon that was fine but I noticed on sunday i had quite a few flies cutting about my house killed them popped them in the tank for the fish to munch all was good.

Just regular looking flies black in colour just a tad smaller than a pinky finger nail. So I figured must've came in the open windows on sat. but I've not had my windows open since and I had to kill maybe 7 or 8 yesterday (mon) and I've had to kill another 5-6 today.

My house is a clean theres no rotting fruit meat or anything that would attrack a infestation of these unwanted guests.
My bins are empty.
I live in a flat im the upper of 2 floors I dont think my down stairs neighbour has anything that would attrack flies in his house eather.

So what the **** is going on!!?

Can anyone help or any suggestions on how to get rid of them??

Cheers

[Noahs ark6]

Not to sure whats causing them, but i find that fly strips like these work well

[magical trevor]

I was thinking about picking some of these up but they can be a right pain in the .... when you forget where there hanging and walk into it lol.

[Noahs ark6]

I was thinking about picking some of these up but they can be a right pain in the .... when you forget where there hanging and walk into it lol.

lol

[ShinySideUp]

Hi peeps.

Well I'll begin from the beginning. Past few days in the west of scotland havent been too bad weather wise so I had my windows on open "tilt" to get the air circulating on sat afternoon that was fine but I noticed on sunday i had quite a few flies cutting about my house killed them popped them in the tank for the fish to munch all was good.

Just regular looking flies black in colour just a tad smaller than a pinky finger nail. So I figured must've came in the open windows on sat. but I've not had my windows open since and I had to kill maybe 7 or 8 yesterday (mon) and I've had to kill another 5-6 today.

My house is a clean theres no rotting fruit meat or anything that would attrack a infestation of these unwanted guests.
My bins are empty.
I live in a flat im the upper of 2 floors I dont think my down stairs neighbour has anything that would attrack flies in his house eather.

So what the **** is going on!!?

Can anyone help or any suggestions on how to get rid of them??

Cheers

This happens. Sometimes a fly can lay eggs one summer and there is enough food for the maggots say in a dead bird or mouse or something and the flies stay in pupae stage for the winter. When there is a surge in temperature the pupae hatch into flies and hey presto.

This happened to us many years ago. We lived in a first floor maisonette (so there was a loft above us) and we came home one evening and found our main bedroom was like a horror film -- there must have been a thousand flies in there. The window was closed, the door was closed, nothing was dead in the room. We emptied a can of fly spray into the room and left it for an hour, hoovered them up and were never troubled again. very odd.

[ichy thump]

A simple, homemade fly trap.



I made something similar to get rid of a sudden (and alarming) invasion of fruit flies and it cleansed them from my kitchen in just a few hours, as a matter of fact. I watched a movie and then went in the kitchen and they were all floating in the bottle.