Flies appearing from no-where????

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Going to Cali

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This is as much as confusing as it is disgusting. Our student house, in the front room, we're having a problem with flies. The last few weeks I'll be sat in the room, there are no doors or windows open, and suddenly there are flies crawling on the walls. There are no cracks in the walls, I can't see any holes in the floor. It's driving me insane. During the summer there was building work on our house, the builders left the foundations open which resulted in rats chewing through our floor boards. The only thing I can think is that perhaps a rat was left under the floorboards, but even then I can't think how they are getting into the front room and there's no rotting smells or anything either. Has anyone else had a problem like this?
 
I remember one of those activity holidays back in school, and in our room there was flies coming from somewhere each night, we were having fun batting them. Then one night one of us found the source, a small hole in one of the window frames.

One of the boys had to knock the hell out of window frame then "for a laugh", releasing tens of flies all over the room, and one massive massive fly over this one boys bed, its body was atleast the size of a penny. One of us of course had to climb up (as they were bunks) and splat the fly, he was the daddy of flies afterall.

I'll never forget the image of a big fly corpse splatted on the wall, a mark the size of Vauxhall car badge, blood trickling down and a ginger kid in the bed under it crying.
 
Tom0 said:
I remember one of those activity holidays back in school, and in our room there was flies coming from somewhere each night, we were having fun batting them. Then one night one of us found the source, a small hole in one of the window frames.

One of the boys had to knock the hell out of window frame then "for a laugh", releasing tens of flies all over the room, and one massive massive fly over this one boys bed, its body was atleast the size of a penny. One of us of course had to climb up (as they were bunks) and splat the fly, he was the daddy of flies afterall.

I'll never forget the image of a big fly corpse splatted on the wall, a mark the size of Vauxhall car badge, blood trickling down and a ginger kid in the bed under it crying.
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good lads, thats what i like to hear!
 
Someone had the same problem not long ago, I think there was loads of them in the fireplace or chimney or something like that.
 
No fire place in our house, good call though! I'm guessing though, with the weather being bad, they're not coming in from outside as it would be too cold for them. Must be from indoors somewhere.

By the way, got onto our landlord, he's got in touch with pest control, hopefully they'll find the problem and sort it out.
 
Found the little *******, there's a slight gap between our floorboard,wall and door into our living room. Just seen one fly in through there. Have blocked it for the time being (stuffed some toilet paper in!!) but obviously doesn't solve the problem if them being underneath the floorboards in the first place!
 
Going to Cali said:
Could improvise, use a lighter and kill it/them with fire?
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If we're improvising I have the perfect idea.

Setup a trap. It consists of a piece of poo, a bowl and some sort of drop mechanism.

You place the poo near the hole with the bowl above it ready to catch them all!

Once you capture them you slide a piece of paper under the bottom of the bowl and escort them to your freezer.

You leave them in your freezer for 5minutes or so, or until they stop moving.

You then remove them, then there are two options here:

Option1: You can either tie a piece of string around the flies then wait for them to come back to life, a fly on a string!
Edit - For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMfT7qXy1k&feature=related

Option2: Create a small paper aeroplane and superglue the flies to the plane and see if they can takeoff.
 
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Flies seem to be able to hibernate inside houses, so any recess with an access hole could be hiding a horde of the little gits.

I found this out when insulating the loft at my mother's years ago. It was a 150 year old house and had accumulated a lot of debris (dust, soot, rubble from the old 'plaster' backing the slates) between the joists. When cleaning this out to make more room for the insulation, I discovered a few flies buried in the dust. Thought it was a bit weird. Then I found a few more... and then noticed they were alive.

Basically the loft was alive with thousands of them (big loft) snoozing away the winter months under their dusty duvet waiting for a warm day or two to encourage them out of hiding.

A quick Google for 'cluster flies' will throw up lots of information about hibernating flies.

Andrew McP
 
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We had this problem in our student house.

Turned out someone had left a pile of clothes in the hallway for a while and a fly had decided to make lay some eggs in there.
After a few days of noticing lots of flies around the house we discovered this shirt still crawling with maggots.
We chucked out the shirt and the flies stopped!
 
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