[Closed] Flys - where do they all come from

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good old fashioned fly paper works

The plural of fly is flies.

The apostrophe means something belonging to a fly: "The fly's bollocks" for example.

Carry on.

They're cluster flies, by the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_fly

Well, when a mummy fly and a daddy fly love each other very much, they hug in a special way.

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Dunno where they come from but our house is full of the bastads, & that Raid 'fly killer' is crap, you may as well chuck the can at them!

Whoops I nearly made a fool of myself there .

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Whoops I nearly made a fool of myself there .

Not sure if I was right or wrong now .

I failed .

Cougar, 'tis a good thing I had nothing in my mouth when I read that, or my Pad screen would need a really good clean off. 😆

They're all far eastern immigrants- they come from the Fly Emirates.

lol as above old fashioned fly paper need to search to get it but they certainly clear them up

Flies are not a problem as you can get rid of them easily. Once I had nearly 200 to 400 of them flying in my kitchen ... yes, 200 to 400. I had some rotten food in the rubbish bin which I forgot to empty so the flies lay their eggs in there. Turn into maggots which subsequently crawled and hid under the floor board. Come the hottest day of the month and they all mature in adult flies ... hurray! Looks like I have a corpse in my flat. Went to the nearest pound shop and bought several cans of fly spray and swatters ... killed them all.

Now my problem is beetle ... plenty of them and I think they are call pantry beetle or something but if they are wood worms then I am in deep shite.

i'm curious, how did you come to the '200 to 400' estimate?

did you simply count to 100 and think ''there's at least twice as many here, possibly 3 or 4 times as many'' ?

at what point did you think ''there's absolutely no possibility of there actually being 500 here'' ?

Counted the legs and divided by 6 obviously.

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I can't argue with that logic

slimjim78 - Member

i'm curious, how did you come to the '200 to 400' estimate?

did you simply count to 100 and think ''there's at least twice as many here, possibly 3 or 4 times as many'' ?

at what point did you think ''there's absolutely no possibility of there actually being 500 here'' ?

I counted them after I killed some of them. Think it was about 250 approximately. Yes, I counted my kill. Basically, I picked up those I killed by fly spray (some half dead) then placing them onto a bowl out of curiosity. By the time I counted the dead ones there were still many flying about but the mass seem to reduce by half so I guess that's how I come up with the estimation of 200 - 400. Killed nearly 250 of them and there were still many flying around but not as a compact mass.

The young flies are not that dark in colour and rather slow when they fly so swatting was like playing air tennis but then their body parts went all over the kitchen wall after being swatted by me.

Also check your bin liner and if you find many white maggots chances is that they have already crawled into your floor board to hide.

In fact there could be more than 400 to be frank as the next day I still found some flying about i.e. the newly hatched ones ... swat the hell out of them ...

I am not trying to exaggerate the numbers but you could experiment it out yourself especially if during the very hot summer day. Try to leave some rotten chicken carcass or skin in your bin or fish ... let them smell a bit with your window(s) open for few days. If you see some flies in your kitchen let them be. Few weeks time ... you will have fun swatting them. 😆

Also check your bin liner and if you find many white maggots chances is that they have already crawled into your floor board to hide.

Why would the maggots leave their food source and crawl under the floorboards where presumably they would starve ?

Or do you provide a food source for maggots under your floorboards ?

I have to say chewkw I feel let down and disappointed, I thought you were the expert on here with regards to not tolerating maggots and understanding the need to stamp them out. Sounds like you struggle to get on top of the problem in your own kitchen. Shame on you.

And you've now also got problems with beetles, last year you had issues with bedbugs, what is it with you and insect invasions ? And you have the nerve to lecture everyone on the need to stamp out maggots. Get your own house in order fella.

And you've now also got problems with beetles

To be fair, Ringo is a complete waste of space.

ernie_lynch - Member

And you've now also got problems with beetles, last year you had issues with bedbugs, what is it with you and insect invasions ? And you have the nerve to lecture everyone on the need to stamp out maggots. Get your own house in order fella.

😆 Yes, bloody beetles seem to enjoy the kitchen more than I do. Not sure how they got here and they have the tendency to enjoy themselves as I could see them chasing each other for nookies ... 🙄

Last year's was not bedbugs but some sort of insects that were too small to see as I could sense something crawling on me skin but I could not see anything at all.

Human maggots are much more annoying as they cannot be exterminated ...

jon1973 - Member

To be fair, Ringo is a complete waste of space.

I think he is okay because he simply goes into retirement unlike the one who keeps appearing in the press ...

Right time to play the "Mini Scorpion Invasion" card here (invasion of small scorpions for the word smiths out there). Went into the spare room downstairs and they were everywhere - thankfully dead so just 10 mins with the hover sorted that out

chewy's kitchen earlier..

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I had one of those electronic fly shatters when I worked near a landfill site. That was fun as they basically fried the moment you touched them and then blew apart with a few fantastic sparks.

If you didn't get them properly like, first time, they'd speed up no end.

When I was a yoof and into fishing (exciting times...), I once bought a very big tub of maggots, left them in the garage with the lid off and forgot about them.

Next time I went in, they were all patiently lined up on the garage shelves, waiting to destroy me. Presumably still resentful after watching me stick their brothers on a hook.

We get a problem with a fly community living in the loft, then coming into the bathroom spotlights for a bit of fatal sunbedding.