Invasion of the Fat Flies
Didn’t anyone tell these guys it’s winter? When we got home last night, we were greeted by this clustering of 50 or so giant flies on the inside of our back door, apparently attracted to the nearby light bulb. The only explanation we can come up with is that the unseasonably mild weather we’ve been…
Didn’t anyone tell these guys it’s winter? When we got home last night, we were greeted by this clustering of 50 or so giant flies on the inside of our back door, apparently attracted to the nearby light bulb. The only explanation we can come up with is that the unseasonably mild weather we’ve been having resulted in some premature hatching. Luckily, these guys were as slow as they were big, so it wasn’t too hard to dispatch of them with a rolled-up newspaper. Has anyone else encountered this?
The dead rat comment is correct, these things mean something died close by, and they are feasting on it. They are gross.
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Sadly, I still have those huge Chinese mosquitoes invading my apartment on occasion. They appear to be extremely hardy and are taking well to indoor living. Time to build one of those inexpensive 2-liter soda bottle mosquito traps they use in China.
they are around every winter.
one good thing is they are much slower than regular summer flies — easy to swat em!
The night before Thanksgiving we got bitten by a mosquito in our bedroom! We woke up from it in the middle of the night and spotted the little #@%$@er. Isn’t it too cold for mosquitoes already?
I’ve had one of those giant ones flying around for the last 2 days. Just a few days before that we were finally able to kill a normal one that had been in the apt. for 2 wks. No dead rats around. I swear.
To put a gloss on 10:41,”Cherches les asticots.” That sounds so much nicer than “Find the maggots.” Which is what you’ve got…somewhere…indoors. We have had several such Amityville plagues in the CrazyStable; one covered a whole windowpane with them. To my relief, it was easy to get rid of them; I just opened the window and they all zoomed out, in search of other houses with dead things in which to lay eggs. Makes one crave a stiff drink afterwards, though.
Most likely a rat died somewhere nearby; probably from rat poison and fly are feeding and laying eggs in the rat’s carcas. Find the dead rat, and you’ll find the source of those flys.
It’s not the light, dude.
I had that in my apartment on a January afternoon a few years back. It was nice out so I had the windows opened and I got a few of those mega-flies. I got rid of ’em and that was it…