House Flies
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Doofus

Original Poster:

32,600 posts

194 months

Over the past week or ten days I've got found and despatched at least one house fly every day; all of them very sluggish. Seems odd to have any at this time of year, particularly given how cold it's been.

Anyone else? (Warwickshire, if it makes a difference)


hidetheelephants

32,797 posts

214 months

Loads of house flies at the moment, but we have rodents of some kind as winter lodgers and poison has been put down so we just assumed Mickey had eaten something that disagreed and died.

Doofus

Original Poster:

32,600 posts

194 months

hidetheelephants said:
Loads of house flies at the moment, but we have rodents of some kind as winter lodgers and poison has been put down so we just assumed Mickey had eaten something that disagreed and died.
Me too, and I wondered the same thing. I sent the dog out to check the rat holes by the barn and he came back disinterested, so I don't think anything's dead.

BigMon

5,688 posts

150 months

They sound like cluster flies.

A nuisance, but they are not disease carriers.