Flies everywhere

artvandulet

Is it me or is there way more flies about? The car was covered in them this morning along with a number of other cars. As if a plague of em had just landed.
A few weeks ago I was cycling and got covered in green flies.
There just seems to be flies everywhere this summer. Same goes for wasps, spiders and slugs. Little creatures are taking over.

starlit

Think the flies are slowly dying out for the moment, just midges. The worst to come are bees and wasps! Watch out!:eek:

AnonoBoy

If you clean some of that sh*t off your car the number of flies will dramatically reduce.

Bodhisopha

Yeah, a lot of flies knocking about this summer. The cúnts.

Bodhisopha

snuggles285 wrote: »

Think the flies are slowly dying out for the moment, just midges. The worst to come are bees and wasps! Watch out!:eek:

Bees are lovely.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx

Definitely more around this year. Out on the bike I'm swallowing the ****ers constantly! Yuck!

starlit

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Bees are lovely.

They can buzz off!

Superbus

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If you clean some of that sh*t off yourself the number of flies will dramatically reduce.

:pac:





(first time I've done something like that; I feel proud)

artvandulet

Superbus wrote: »

:pac:





(first time I've done something like that; I feel proud)

nice.

AskMyChocolate

It's the worst I've seen since 82-86 when I spent me holliers in a mobile home in Brittas Bay. The fukkers prey on the poor and weak. Or maybe they like the seaside. I know we did.:)

*reminisces, builds a sandcastle and folds newspaper*

Typhoon.

last few days theres been lots of smallish black ones.. smaller than house flies but bigger than miges.. dumb b@stards too... you can kill em no bother

W.Shakes-Beer

I keep thinking my poor old dog is dead because he lays flat out in the sun and loads of flies keep landing on the poor fella until he gets up and the flies are like WTF!?

He's clean aswell which is odd so yeah, there's just alot of them around.

starlit

Get a robotic walloping stick at the ready for the flies in droves!

artvandulet

Typhoon. wrote: »

last few days theres been lots of smallish black ones.. smaller than house flies but bigger than miges.. dumb b@stards too... you can kill em no bother

there the ones Im talking about that are covering the cars. They make no effort to fly away. you can just brush em off. lazy. too busy shagging and multiplying

starlit

artvandulet wrote: »

there the ones Im talking about that are covering the cars. They make no effort to fly away. you can just brush em off. lazy. too busy shagging and multiplying

Yuck! :eek:

Hank_Jones

They are bloody everywhere and then there is the problem of having to worry about where the hell they are after you spray them.

My own house is generally fly free though, just keep the windows closed.
Bloody loads of flies in anyone else's house I have been in.

Typhoon.

i think this is them... soldier flies..i think they're around because of all the composting (brown bins)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens

Ricardo G

Wasps are starting to appear too, was out for a few pints on Sunday afternoon and sitting outside with a few bottles was like "revenge of the killer bees" :mad:. The only few days of decent weather and the fookin wasps drive you back inside lol

we'llallhavetea_old

the place is over run with the whures.

wasps are everywhere round here, had my first sting there the other day. yeah, i lived to tell the tale. didn't even cry. i let out a short sharp scream though. squished the bastard then. :cool:

billymitchell

There is a little f*cker of a fly in my room now stopping me getting to sleep
"If I had my shotgun I would sort him out" :mad:

questionmark?

artvandulet wrote: »

Is it me or is there way more flies about? The car was covered in them this morning along with a number of other cars. As if a plague of em had just landed.
A few weeks ago I was cycling and got covered in green flies.
There just seems to be flies everywhere this summer. Same goes for wasps, spiders and slugs. Little creatures are taking over.

Funny you should mention that i have never seeing so many spiders. Its obviously because of the extra flies this year. I mean my garage is starting to look like a bad horror movie and i caught one in the bathroom last night that looked like it belonged in the amazon!!!

starlit

billymitchell wrote: »

There is a little f*cker of a fly in my room now stopping me getting to sleep
"If I had my shotgun I would sort him out" :mad:

Would you not need a fly gun?

billymitchell

snuggles285 wrote: »

Would you not need a fly gun?

Thats crazy talk, he probably has one of those already
(Btw, that shotgun quote is, I am ashamed to admit, a D'unbelievables reference)

starlit

The fly might need a new home.

AskMyChocolate

snuggles285 wrote: »

The fly might need a new home.

"He can want (or need) one all he wants. There's no votes for me amongst the fly contingent" Ned O'Keeffe

Diabhal_Glas

Took this pic last summer,

Degag

I called into my parent's house today and saw that my mother had put up one of those sticky things that hang from the ceiling. Hadn't seen one in about 20 years!

moonpurple

people putting waste food into composters = flies

King Felix

snuggles285 wrote: »

Would you not need a fly gun?

This is the best way to sort out a swarm of flies.

Sea Sharp

I like that there's more flies about. It gives me an excuse to dress up as rambo and run around the house with a rolled up newspaper doing ninja moves,

Sparkyd2002

infested with the buggers.Agree its probably a lack of pesticides being available coupled with increasing popularity of the Green agenda, compost bins etc. being all the rage. looks like we have to learn to co-exist with our increasing population of new friends as long as we dont want "climate change"!

the_syco

snuggles285 wrote: »

Think the flies are slowly dying out for the moment, just midges.

I think the politically correct term is vertically challanged...

gbee

Yes, we are going through a phenomenon brought about by warmer winters of the last four years, but abruptly halted for the winter and snow coverage of the winter 2010 [this year].

This caused the extinction of a lot of plants and small animals that were 'over wintering' and had been promising to produce a 'plague' but in fact the opposite was happening as these creatures and plants were weak after a winter but not killed off as nature intended.

After the snow, and it is snow that causes the most dramatic effects, we see a resurgence of new life in all areas, look around too at hedged and trees which have grown a few years worth in one season.

Sadly we did not have a good summer so many of the natural predators did not flourish so this is adding to the end of year flush and making this year a particularly exciting [and annoying] one. For the marco photographer, heaven has come to their back garden this year.

If we want to see this again ~ and we do as it is a much healthier scenario all round, we need two feet of snow for two weeks again during the coming winter.

gbee

Ricardo G wrote: »

Wasps are starting to appear too,

Kill all wasps!

Whilst this is not a general statement, at this time of year, ie the autumn, these worker wasps are released to die ~ they are angry and will attack viciously ~ so do actively kill them this month, August.

french_bloke

Has anyone seen the ants that can fly!? Not sure if they are ants but certainly look like them until they open their wings and take off! One minute everything is fine, then the next a flower pot is completely infested with hundreds of thousands of these flying ants! I was in a friends house over the weekend sitting outside, it took us a good 15 minutes before we noticed this, a flower pot was no less then 6 feet away and it was completely covered in them!

gbee

billymitchell wrote: »

There is a little f*cker of a fly in my room now stopping me getting to sleep "If I had my shotgun I would sort him out" :mad:

Which is why in my room there are cobwebs!

Wife and I lie sleepless as this annoying an elusive Daddy Long-legs does his tap dance around the room, we are slowly going mad when we suddenly heard .... zapppp, ZAPPPPP, ZAAAAAPPPPPPPP.

We looked up at the corner of the room ... YES! Spider has fangs in Daddy Long-Legs and it goes limp and silent .... sleep at last.

gbee

Try one of those electric fly zappers ~ they are quite good ~ but be WARNED **** the electrocuting insects explode, emit obnoxious smoke and even more obnoxious smells ****

But they are quite effective with fresh batteries.

Typhoon.

it was just on the local radio.. theyre called "St marks flies"

St Mark's Fly

Bibio marci

St Mark's fly owes it's common name to its annual habit of appearing around St Mark's day, 25th April.

It seems odd to me that an insect as substantial as this should be deemed to be a 'midge'. This is the largest of the 18 strong Bibionidae family of black day flying midges. The females are about 13mm in length and the males about 10mm.

It is slow and cumbersome in flight with its legs dangling clumsily - and that is while it is on it's own. When they are mating, it is not unusual to find them in even more unwieldly flight, still coupled together with the larger female dragging the hapless male to the next resting place.

The differences between male and female can clearly be seen in the upper image. The female is significantly larger but has a much smaller head with smaller eyes set on either side of the head. The male on the other hand has large eyes touching each other.

The single, strong, forward pointing spine on the outside of the tibia of the front legs (highlighted in the lower image) is an identifying feature of the Bibio family, helping to distinguish it from the similar Dilophus family - to which the fever-fly (see below) belongs.

The conformation of the wings is such that when folded, one wing completely overlays the other.

It breeds underground and the larvae feed largely on decaying vegetation but are also blamed for damage to crop roots.

One 'oddity' of Bibio species is that the larval structure appears to be more primitive than the adult fly conformation would lead one to expect, indicating some evolutionary aberration in their development

Mimikyu

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moonpurple

flies increase:

my compost bin told me not to put food waste in composter
I just put lawn grass in it

more people need to rtfm*










*read the feckin manual

mecanoman

Where's the plague of spiders! sort them flies out good.

podgeandrodge

french_bloke wrote: »

Has anyone seen the ants that can fly!? Not sure if they are ants but certainly look like them until they open their wings and take off!

Yes, and they seem to appear on windows all the time just walking up them, can't figure where they are getting into the house.

moonpurple wrote: »

people putting waste food into composters = flies

Is this the reason? Simple as that? I think you may be right but this year seems to have a huge number of either midges or bigger flies everywhere - what is the solution!

starlit

No haven't seen ants fly unless they are greenflies!

pwd

I've noticed a lot of those flies about the last couple of days. They are disgusting. They seem to land on people a lot. If you swat them off they just keep coming back and landing on you again, instead of flying away. I say to them "It's your funeral, buddy."

RolandIRL

put some lavender plant (or the scented stuff) near the doors and windows. we were plagued by flies til we did this and now there's barely any. they don't like it, it seems.

prinz

moonpurple wrote: »

flies increase:
my compost bin told me not to put food waste in composter
I just put lawn grass in it

more people need to rtfm*

*read the feckin manual

I would gather most people are referring to the brown bins in Dublin. Food waste is perfectly acceptable.

http://www.dublinwaste.ie/files/Brown%20Bin.pdf

SoulTrader

Flies? Meh...

I found a 2.5 inch long cockroach in my kitchen this week. And another one on the ceiling, which launched itself off the ceiling towards my face - managed to avoid it though.

Pace2008

Bodhisopha wrote: »

Bees are lovely.

Not to mention we'd all be ****ed without them.

Same with wasps.

gurramok

Try battling hundreds of drain flies in the house. That happened to me!

http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x283/gurra2011/Misc/?action=view&current=05062010800.jpg
http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x283/gurra2011/Misc/?action=view&current=05062010799.jpg

monkeypants

Loads of flies around, but the thing that I'll remember this year is the amount of bees that I've seen dying on the footpath.

Pace2008

gurramok wrote: »

Try battling hundreds of drain flies in the house. That happened to me!

http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x283/gurra2011/Misc/?action=view&current=05062010800.jpg
http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x283/gurra2011/Misc/?action=view&current=05062010799.jpg

There used to be loads of them in my granparents' house. I'd be lying on the bed, looking up at the ceiling. I'd notice one, then, another...and suddenly I'd realise that 50% of the ****ing room is crawling with them.

monkeypants wrote: »

Loads of flies around, but the thing that I'll remember this year is the amount of bees that I've seen dying on the footpath.

A sight that will haunt you to your deathbed.