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House flies Ugh!
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AnninGlos | Report | 22 Jul 2017 16:47 |
We seem to have had an infestation of house flies starting last night and going through today. In the kitchen I must have killed and disposed of at least 30 of them. I have thoughtly cleaned all round the sink, windows, windowsill. got rid of the dead ones, turned my back looked agin and four more, this went on a while then it seemed as if they'd all gone. Sprayed with fly spray shut all the doors, left it half an hour, went back and five more dead. The strange and creepy thing is we can't see where theya re coming from, looked everywhere. I thought it was the orchids so moved them into the conservatory and there were still more flies. Hirchcock comes to mind. Hoping we will eventually get them all. Strange thing is that we rarely get many flies here. Just the odd one or two. Still I suppose that is all it takes! :-( :-( |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Jul 2017 17:47 |
How horrible Ann. |
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Jane | Report | 22 Jul 2017 18:02 |
Ann you haven't been up in loft have you? I often find when we have had the loft hatch open we get loads of flies. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 22 Jul 2017 21:46 |
It sounds as though you might have had one fly that got in and laid eggs somewhere, and they all hatched out at the same time. |
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Annx | Report | 23 Jul 2017 23:07 |
Just the same as you Amokavid. We never had any problem when the field at the back of us was meadow hay. Now they have young cattle in there every year we get them all the time! |
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AnninGlos | Report | 24 Jul 2017 07:56 |
Well, we thought they had all gone Saturday evening, none there Sunday morning. However, we went out for the day and when we got home there were 8 lying dead on the kitchen floor. We sprayed and shut the kitchen doors before we went out., we then had a few more. I stood and watched for ages and couldn't believe it when I was looking straight at the windowsill and window and suddenly there were two crawling up the window and I still had not seen where theyw ere coming from. It is not the orchids as they have been in the conservatory over the weekend. They definitely originated somewhere in the kitchen so yes, a fly had laid its eggs somewhere. But where we haven't a clue, we have searched everywhere, pulled everything, except the washing machine, out (sprayed over and round that). Since those last two have not seen any more, none there this morning. At least the outside area has been saved from about 40 flies this summer, none escaped. And, until then we had remarked how few flies there were around. And I have the cleanest kichen! :-) :-) |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 24 Jul 2017 14:20 |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 24 Jul 2017 17:00 |
I haven't got flies - but ants. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 24 Jul 2017 18:03 |
Re the flies - can you still buy Fly-paper? It may not look particularly decorative, but help dispatch any stragglers. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 24 Jul 2017 18:48 |
No flies today, fingers crossed they have all gone. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 24 Jul 2017 20:09 |
maggie ............... |
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Bobtanian | Report | 24 Jul 2017 21:01 |
I saw on a shopping estate milk bottles hanging on string tied to the wheelie bins... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 24 Jul 2017 23:00 |
Sylvia, that's what I use - 'Nippon'. - have used it for at least the past 10 years. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 24 Jul 2017 23:15 |
Borax with a bit of sugar and they take it back to the nest.used this all the time in .Spain .it works and believe me they were big ants there! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 24 Jul 2017 23:54 |
The skirting board is one side of the kitchen, goes behind the cupboards - the ants appear the other side :-| Oh joys! |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 26 Jul 2017 04:53 |
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Leslie | Report | 26 Jul 2017 08:47 |
Ann,,flies are such unwanted creatures aren't they?? I'm sure,,like wasps,,they were only created to upset we humans...When I was young we were convinced the baker used the dead ones in his eccles cakes..Hahahahaha....I love eccles cakes,,especially when made with real butter.... |
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AnninGlos | Report | 26 Jul 2017 13:15 |
I do hate flies in large numbers Les, single ones don't bother me. I did get some fly papre yesterday, on a reel that you pull out, three reels in a pack. Well the first rell is in the bin having sprung off the lead paper that you hang by and wrapped itself round my arm and across the work surface. Gosh that stuff is sticky. However I got the other one hung up and watched a fly go round it and above it and later found it dead on the window sill so I think there must still be fly spray fumes around. I didn't actually need the fly paper. OH is complaining that it is not very decorative in the kitchen window so I am not sure how long it will last there. :-D |
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