Flies!

Anyone still have flies annoying them?

nope. thank goodness.

We still have some, but they have certainly reduced in numbers recently

Yes, it's been a very bad couple of weeks, and they are really really really annoying now. We have never had so many flies about the house at this time of year before!

Yes Grrrrrrrrrrrrr and bot flies driving my horse nuts!!!!!!!!!

yes still around, one of our wilti ewes got struck on the back just recently.
very warm down here for this time of year

Not a lot of flies outdoors, just indoors here. And they are behaving differently, or maybe they are a different kind, as they keep dive-bombing me and getting behind my glasses!

Yea, Just the dopey ones, no cluster flies thank goodness.

I have them in my house - ceiling and flying slowly in circles at about knee height. They are also all over my baleage bales. I am not sure if these are cluster flies or not. They aren't packed in the way that I have seen pictures of, but there at LOTS of them. I guess they are gathering there for the warmth. I hope that we get a good frost soon and that will kill all the outside ones.

some really tiny fruitflies..[!] the same kind that's in the compostbin...[!]
had them in the kitchen when i was coocking something sweet..the whole kitchen was filled with those buggers...[!][!] it was disgusting...[xx(]
don't know why they came in?? was my coocking that good

kaumea;367284 wrote: some really tiny fruitflies..[!] the same kind that's in the compostbin...[!]
had them in the kitchen when i was coocking something sweet..the whole kitchen was filled with those buggers...[!][!] it was disgusting...[xx(]
don't know why they came in?? was my coocking that good

I think those ones are called vinegar flies. Did you leave your glass of wine standing just a bit long

not only one glass

I've marinated venison in wine and vinegar for ten days and after that i was coocking it and there came those flies...[!]

Last night as I was finishing up in my feed shed (an old milk tank stand, sans milk tank) I noticed a buzzing. Looked up and saw heaps of clusters, Ewwww, yuk. So took the vacuum down and vacuumed up as many as I could. That set some of them off flying - all around the light. They were so thick that I just stuck the end of the vacuum cleaner hose in the air by the light and they were getting sucked in. So then I sprayed as per the pest man's instructions. This morning the floor was covered in dead flies. If their pheromes attrack other flies even when they are dead, what do I do about all the dead ones littering the floor - behind shelves, in amongst all the junk I have stored in my feed room?

I don't know if I dare go up into my roof space. House is well away from the shed, but even so. Maybe I'll just set off some bombs.

The last 3 weeks we've had cluster flies...lots..YUK(we're in south Canterbury)
My old Romney ewe who has never been flyblown had a bad attack 2 weeks ago..very late here for that sort of thing[:0] I've used outdoor spray inside with good results...have to vacuum several times a day though. Down to just a couple of dozen flies now a day as the weather gets cooler:o