Flies (Ã la Amityville Horror)
I have no garbage or food in the house but I’ve been sharing my space with big, fat, black, hairy old flies. I think I’ve plugged up all the holes but they’re obviously still finding a way in, somehow… Does anyone have any advice (Fly Whisperers, nontoxic versions of Raid, cheap and effective deterrents, etc.)?
I have no garbage or food in the house but I’ve been sharing my space with big, fat, black, hairy old flies. I think I’ve plugged up all the holes but they’re obviously still finding a way in, somehow… Does anyone have any advice (Fly Whisperers, nontoxic versions of Raid, cheap and effective deterrents, etc.)?
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We thought we had a dead mouse too. But the exterminator said if you have a dead animal, you will know it (by the unbearable smell). He said check for sewage overflow.
I was watching the Wendy Williams show and she had a fly problem in the studio and a viewer advised her to put a glassful of apple vinegar where the flies buzz around and they hover around the glass and then for some reason dive in.Wendy did it and later on in the show went to the glass to find the dead fly in the glass.
My experience tells me that you probably have a dead mouse either in a wall or maybe somewhere amongst your things.
Mice can get through party walls, especially when they’ve been poisoned in one house…they get dehydrated and move ou of that house looking for water.
Then…they croak in your house. Ugh.
Let the flies out the windows and in a week or so they’ll have all hatched and flown away. You may find the dried out mouse corpse one day…
My dad has these in Vermont. I believe they breed, lay eggs and die inside. He’s had them for years.
I had this problem in a place I used to rent. We sealed up the cracks in the apartment through which they were entering.
We had a ton of pigeons living in an open air shaft, which would often fill with water when it rained and/or the drain clogged up with the pigeon sh*t, which was pretty much always. My theory is the flies were breeding in the combo of water & pigeon excrement. It was no different from having a sewer overflow. Same ingredients.
We occassionaly have had something that have been called cluster flies. I’ve been told they lay eggs in tiny cracks in our foundation.
The ones we have had are pretty slow and you can get some exercise going after them with various objects. When they really annoyed me I would spray them with any reasonable aerosol. What really worked was trying something I read about, putting the roots of basil plants on the floor near where you thought they might be entering. It was a little pricy, (no basil in the garden to use) but seemed to work.
This was a more organic method then I would usually try but they disappeared soon after. It could also be totally coincidental.
If really large, more likely your flies are due to a dead rat in a wall or crawl space (or if you have construction or an overgrown garden nearby, especially covered with ivy, then a perfect environment for rodents). This link is useful for it’s photos and sublinks, even though not local. Be forewarned if you’re squeamish about insects/larvae: http://bit.ly/dhxpDd