invasion of the flies

[Dak]

so, i've found about 20ish flies in my room today :-/

 

my current theories are:

 

1/ the recent really stormy weather woke the buggers up from hybernation and they're currently taking shelter in my room as i have an unclosable vent leading directly outside that they can get in through, or

 

2/ some rat or mouse has done me the favour of dying under my floorboards, and it's now haemorraging flies. i usually have my window open and i smoke in my room, so i guess i wouldn't neccessarily recognise any wierd smell...

 

anyone know about flies? would they behave like that in a storm, or am i going to have to tear my floor-boards up and look for corpses?

 

also: any tips on killing of them? i've been going for hair-spray and a rolled-up newspaper, although i've now just hung fly-paper up and made a tacticle withdraw downstairs, where i'll be sleeping till they're gone (hate flies... yuk!)

[thedarkshade]

I don't know much about flies (why should I??) but I'd go with number 2 here. Because of that flies usually appear at my home.

[insane_alien]

spiders help. i love spiders. got a cupboard full of them.

[Dak]

yeah... i hate spiders, but i usually leave the web-making ones alone 'cos they catch flies.

 

hrm... their numbers seem to be going down... weird but i'm not complaining. I guess i'll keep killing them and hope they're all gone in a few days (vaccume cleaners make a good anti-fly weapon btw). better get used to sleeping on the couch in the interim

 

i hate flies

[YT2095]

get an aerosol of n-Methrin then, sheesh