Swarms of flies
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I have never seen anything like it! Our windows are black with flies and the walls around the outside lights are just covered! its not just us either, all the other houses around me are the same and the street lights are covered too!
Anyone else ever encounted this? I think it may have somthing to do with all the washed up seaweed!
Anyone else ever encounted this? I think it may have somthing to do with all the washed up seaweed!
Edited by MonkeyMatt on Monday 31st October 20:47
I had similar once, out in the garden one day, nice and quiet.
It was a bit like a scene from Hitchcock's 'The Birds', I suddenly got the feeling I was being being watched.
I turned round to find the entire house wall covered in large black flies, there must have been over 500!
I lived two doors away from a tackle shop, and it turns out the 'use by' date on the maggots that were delivered to them was wrong, so when the poor fecker
in the shop took the lid off the box, well, you can imagine!
As they'd not long hatched, they didn't know sheit from puddin', so I spent the next 20 minutes thoroughly enjoying myself in a genocidal frenzy,
with a rolled up newspaper.
It was a bit like a scene from Hitchcock's 'The Birds', I suddenly got the feeling I was being being watched.
I turned round to find the entire house wall covered in large black flies, there must have been over 500!
I lived two doors away from a tackle shop, and it turns out the 'use by' date on the maggots that were delivered to them was wrong, so when the poor fecker
in the shop took the lid off the box, well, you can imagine!
As they'd not long hatched, they didn't know sheit from puddin', so I spent the next 20 minutes thoroughly enjoying myself in a genocidal frenzy,
with a rolled up newspaper.
Edited by pacman1 on Monday 31st October 20:59
otolith said:
Dont think they were those! we used to get those when I lived next to a farm with lots of pasture land. These were much smaller. Think they might have been kelp flies.Wait for an outbreak next summer in those places where the councils only collect household waste fortnightly .They seem to forget that the reason for weekly collections was to stop flies breeding in bins --where the maggots have a fortnight from eggs to fly (or is it egg to maggot).
Edit -we found this out last year when meat put out day after collection turned maggotly when we forgot to put bin out next week .....
Well at least the sparrows had feast when I up ended the bin in the garden .
Edit -we found this out last year when meat put out day after collection turned maggotly when we forgot to put bin out next week .....
Well at least the sparrows had feast when I up ended the bin in the garden .
Edited by Who me ? on Tuesday 1st November 17:12
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