I read that too yesterday about them reccycling dead animals. I know I have no such thing in here (when I still had my cat you couldn’t bet on that). I checked the garden around my windows for a dead mouse or something but did not see anything either. Definitely no meat standing around or in the bin.
If they’re after carcass, no wonder not one of them showed interest in the applevinegar trap. They probably wouldn’t fall for those disgusting sticky things either.
It’s not over yet. All morning things seemed fine in the kitchen part of the room until I wandered over to the South windows, they were all gathered there.
They don’t seem fit really though, they are easy to hit and die from the slightest stroke. Flies usually feel you coming, pretend death when they’re hit and just fly on when you think you’re done.
So after an other round of slaughter I’m waiting for things to come.
I’ve actually been really surprised by the lack of flies in my apartment in Basel this summer, it came up in conversation the other night. We don’t even seem to have any of those tiny flies around (maybe is because my place was shuttered up for the first 3 weeks of July?).
Normally at this time of year I would have cleaned the window frames and put the adhesive fly strips on you can buy, and had the thing with the purple light plugged in by the kitchen but it’s just not been necessary. No idea why
I know! Same here. It also came up in a conversation here and I mentioned that them I seriously don’t miss (unlike the bees etc. in spite of being allergic to their stings as they usually don’t sting anyway). And three days later I was in this fly-war! I did tell myself that I jinxed it.
I’m not sure I should write that now but the mass-attack seems over, there are one or two a night now. And I couldn’t even yet pick up the electric weapon Roxi suggested.
This was not the normal, yearly happening though, it was an invasion. I know about the adhesive fly strips (do you feel they help at all?) but what is the purple light?
It’s a plug that has a purple coloured UV light that repels insects, I bought it in Lidl a couple of years ago but most DIY shops have them. I also have a solar powered one on the bedroom window pane, bought that one in Scotland for £5 as they were 25f in Jumbo DIY. It has suction caps to stick it to the window.
A tip I got off YouTube for those pesky little flies is to fill a small glass jar or ramekin with cheap red wine, cover it with cling film and pierce some holes in it. The little pests are attracted to the smell of the wine, they fly in and drown.
OH has one of those tennis racquet shaped execution devices. When he gets going with it he thinks he’s on the Wimbledon Centre Court, I’m surprised he hasn’t smashed half of the pictures on the wall or the ornaments I’ve got in the livingroom yet.
Doesn’t it attract them and electrocute them when they touch the wires? I think one of the few things to repel insects is DEET and that’s from it’s awful smell.
… and chases them where? To an other part of the flat? Or do you mean those electric killers that “eats them up”? Would you mind giving a link or a picture?
@ShirleyNot, Dragonfly Wingman
I wouldn’t mind putting one of those up but I doubt 50 flies like the other night would be impressed.
Actually not seldom I have dragonflies coming into my flat. Every time it’s a worry to lead them out without harming their delicate wings. We’re always both not happy about the situation.
The horror is either over or that spider covering my garden entrance is doing a darn good job. Door open all day, no visitors.
Yeah, Roxi mentioned that and I can pick mine up tomorrow. Thanks for the warning
Well, I got mine yesterday and I am not impressed.
It’s totally malformed, you can’t get a fly sitting on a wall or any other flat surface. Apart form the fly seeing that monster thing coming from miles away, if it doesn’t bother to flee, it will just walk away from under it.
I’ve not caught a single fly with this yet. I did get a steamfly or something like that.
Well, I guess I’ll take your OH as my model - Wimbledon here I come. The exercise won’t harm me. I won’t bother for a single fly though. Maybe with the 50 the other day this would have helped.
I can’t stand flies, so all our windows have screens. For outside, these are the best weapons–we have one for each outdoor chair. I bought my first one, now 20 years old(!) as a joke while on holiday in DE. It says, “Bei mir hast du keine Chance!” The leather flapper is simply not seen by flies, for some reason. Yellowjackets, OTOH…
Absolutely, I already went back to it. An other useless thing bought too quickly which I don’t know where to store now and will end up in the cellar because throwing it away causes guilt feelings.
However, I’m back on the occasional fly visiting, the ordinary housefly, not those shiny green ones anymore. So maybe there was some kind of carcass in the garden after all that caused that invasion.
