FLIES!

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THX

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2,348 posts

122 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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If you kill a fly, is it then called a 'flew'?!

Seriously though, I live in an upstairs flat. Downstairs has two rabbits that live in a hutch, I have my windows open and now I also have loads of flies. And I mean, infestation levels of fly.

Two trips to Asda and three bottles of spray and I've got it under control. But I cant keep my windows closed forever (or, at least, until the rabbits die - and my two cats proved woefully inept at killing them for me) Downstairs seems to know of the issue (despite initially suggesting it was 'just the weather and this time of year' that caused hundreds of Bluebottles to take shelter in my dining room, kitchen and bathroom) and suggested they'd move the rabbits away from the house... but then if the hutch is moved, the blue arsed bds still made it up the side of the building, and into my windows... so what's another couple meters going to make?!

If it makes any odds, I own mine, she rents hers.

What do I do? Grenade the rabbits?

Mobile Chicane

20,807 posts

212 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Do the flies in question have orange bums? redface

If so, they're 'cluster flies' - prevalent in old houses at this time of year. The presence of animals has no bearing. The cure is to fumigate.

THX

Original Poster:

2,348 posts

122 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Nope. Common or garden FLIES.

Big, buzzing blue and green s.

I'm used to seeing a couple dead ones kicking about as one of the moggies is a Bengal and has fly catching down to an art (the other isn't quite as motivated).
But this is plague territory. I almost packed up to move in with my parents (thankfully the house is fly free now the windows are closed)

hidetheelephants

24,121 posts

193 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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How about mesh flyscreens for the windows? You get ventilation and the flies can fk off.