Flies - Millions of the little.....

Housey

Housey

Housey

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I seem to have an influx of flies in my house. We have had a few flying around but today my kitchen area, laundry and dining room must have had 20-30 flies on each window. I have opened the windows and let the fly away and have gone around and zyclon B'd a few but it concerns me that we might have a nest or something worse somewhere we can't smell/find.

Any ideas, any fly experts on here who might have a few pointers as I HATE the bloody things!
 
You've got a country house don't you?

Anyway, if you have a lot of flies, and I mean a lot, then there is probably something dead somewhere underneath somewhere.

Good luck.
 
I would take a 1.5 litre+ bottle - cut the top part and flip it inside the body.
Then put vinegar in the bottl (maybe around 1 cup full) with a bit of soap/washing up liquid to ease the tension.

flies will then get attracted to that smell and go for it. When they get in, they cant get back out either.

it also helps cutting the top part of the bottle (Which will essentially be a funnel) in jagged bits to cut them when they fly by it
 
I had the same problem last summer ......... checked every where ......
then located an olde onion at very back of cupboard that was manky .. got rid
of it and no more flies
 
Good luck in finding the dead animal, because that's what it'll be.

The cat probably dragged something in and then let it go, like the sadistic little ****s they are.
 
Sure sign of something dead somewhere or rotten food.

They will go, but be prepared for a unpleasant few days.

Someones pop bottle solution above looked good. Fly sprays not great as you then have to find them all when they die
 
I think it might have been a bin actually, I have emptied offending bin but we also live in the middle of nowhere and sometimes we can get piles of dung left on fields and then the flies head over to ours for a nose around :(
 
We had an epidemic of these tiny little black buggers that looked like fruit flies. We literally had to hide all food and not use a bin (we used a plastic bag and immediately dumped it out into the outside bin) and bleached the crap out of everything. After a few days they buggered off. We keep our kitchen and bathroom clean and wiped down, but it took extreme measures of cleanliness to get rid of them.
 
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