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JmcSal

Please help. I went into my sitting room this morning and found about 20 dying blue bottles on the floor.
I have a kitchenette so the bin was close by. The floor the were on is beside the huge balcony door and window. All my windows and doors were locked.
I'm freaked out because they weren't there last night when I was going to bed.
Help!!! I've lived in the apartment 3 years and this has never happened. My home is always clean. I don't know what attracted them except maybe the bin?

Fr_Dougal

Your apartment is haunted.

You'll need to burn it down.

TeaBagMania

don't drop acid before you go to bed

milehip

Finish them off you monster!

The_Valeyard

A poltergeist has entered your household. Be careful OP, the dead do not rest.

Rachiee

Dead blue bottles are a sign of demons call a priest

Outlaw Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQseahtPVAA

Loveinapril

Move. Now.

jayo26

Sounds like your pet blue bottle had a party last night and had a few too many friends over and all got hammered.

Just talk to him and explain you won't tolerate it.

The Backwards Man

You don't have a bluebottle problem, you have a maggot problem. Clean your bin

Birneybau

They came out of your arse. Had been gestating for weeks.

I was away for a few days recently, and when I came back there were a lot of tiny flies in the apartment. I was confused because the bins were clean, but it seems they were attracted to the empty wine bottles I'd left in the kitchen for recycling.

kneemos

https://youtu.be/lcjAedlIPoU

corner of hells

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I was away for a few days recently, and when I came back there were a lot of tiny flies in the apartment. I was confused because the bins were clean, but it seems they were attracted to the empty wine bottles I'd left in the kitchen for recycling.

Careful there.. nothing worse than a gang of drunken flies.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Got my cavity walls pumped with insulation last year and suddenly we had a biblical style infestation of bluebottles at the sitting room window.

We had to hoover them off the window several times daily.They would reappear about 20 at a time.After a few weeks they died off.
The only thing we thought could have caused it was the insulation must have disturbed a nest of the fcukers.

Bastard bluebottles.

JmcSal

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You don't have a bluebottle problem, you have a maggot problem. Clean your bin

My bin has been emptied. There would have been fruit and veg leftovers in it but no meat. I throw my meat in a seperate bag and straight to the wheelie bin. Since this post another 7/8 live ones have appeared on the window. I am just spraying and chasing them out. I closed my vents. I don't know what else to do.

JmcSal

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQseahtPVAA

Lol well thaaaaanks for that

JmcSal

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Got my cavity walls pumped with insulation last year and suddenly we had a biblical style infestation of bluebottles at the sitting room window.

We had to hoover them off the window several times daily.They would reappear about 20 at a time.After a few weeks they died off.
The only thing we thought could have caused it was the insulation must have disturbed a nest of the fcukers.

Bastard bluebottles.

A few weeks?? Oh I don't think I'd last that long. Thanks. My friends have suggested maybe a dead mouse in the walls or floorboards. I don't know how I'd find out?

Stigura

Possibly Cluster Flies, OP. About the right time for them.

JmcSal

Stigura wrote: »

Possibly Cluster Flies, OP. About the right time for them.

What are these? How do they get in the house? And how can I get rid?

Stigura

Sort answer would be to google them. It's all on there.

Basically though; They're a fly that, to the layman, would be Blow Flies. No body'd know the difference.

Bit like wood mice, they gravitate to homes around this time of 'year'. It's the cooling temperatures outside.

Great news is; They're basically completely harmless. They won't sh1t on ye food. Hoover them up and be done with. More often found in roof spaces. But, flies can't access google. So, how should they know that?

JmcSal

Stigura wrote: »

Sort answer would be to google them. It's all on there.

Basically though; They're a fly that, to the layman, would be Blow Flies. No body'd know the difference.

Bit like wood mice, they gravitate to homes around this time of 'year'. It's the cooling temperatures outside.

Great news is; They're basically completely harmless. They won't sh1t on ye food. Hoover them up and be done with. More often found in roof spaces. But, flies can't access google. So, how should they know that?

Lol thanks. Hopefully that's all they are. And they'll be gone soon. Give me spiders any day. These things just give me the creeps.

Skyfarm

JmcSal wrote: »

Lol thanks. Hopefully that's all they are. And they'll be gone soon. Give me spiders any day. These things just give me the creeps.

post fifty euro to my address for a quick solution

fussyonion

I stopped throwing food in my kitchen bin years ago, OP.
The thoughts of it!
I bring leftover scraps and bits out to the black bin outside but I never put food in the kitchen bin.
The kitchen bin is used for recycling now and it's great.
Never get that nasty bin smell or flies anymore.
I shudder when I'm in someone's house and they put food in the bin.

JmcSal

fussyonion wrote: »

I stopped throwing food in my kitchen bin years ago, OP.
The thoughts of it!
I bring leftover scraps and bits out to the black bin outside but I never put food in the kitchen bin.
The kitchen bin is used for recycling now and it's great.
Never get that nasty bin smell or flies anymore.
I shudder when I'm in someone's house and they put food in the bin.

I'll be doing that from now on. Although the odd fruit fly in my home is all I've ever had.
I rarely eat meat and when I do my meat waste is thrown straight to the wheelie bin. On examining the latest deader, they're definately blue bottles. I think they're may be a dead mouse under my floor or something.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

JmcSal wrote: »

I'll be doing that from now on. Although the odd fruit fly in my home is all I've ever had.
I rarely eat meat and when I do my meat waste is thrown straight to the wheelie bin. On examining the latest deader, they're definately blue bottles. I think they're may be a dead mouse under my floor or something.

Bluebottles are not as a result of food waste in a bin, if there's no raw meat there.

jimmy blevins

I remember there was a episode of the x files that dealt with this issue, your possibly on the revenge list of someone who's died OP.


https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D326--G98ZYM&ved=0ahUKEwjQ-YCpwJnPAhWIAcAKHalpADsQtwIIIDAC&usg=AFQjCNHsG3p1EGEPh5Ll3IjlzY0KCr3Tjw&sig2=IoVy0UcufVXcfpGemX9zqQ

JmcSal

Zahir Broad Bowling wrote: »

Bluebottles are not as a result of food waste in a bin, if there's no raw meat there.

So more than likely what you've said, a dead mouse or bird somewhere.

Boom_Bap

You need to buy yourself a box of hornets. Label the box with a big H so you know they are hornets.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/37c6a9e6d554bd8a4b1d8b8894d15b38/tumblr_mt14npYdkY1shfemwo1_500.png

Fathom

Blue Bottles. Short story title. Mysterious. Haunted.

Jimbob1977

We tend to get an influx of bluebottles in September/October every year.

It usually occurs when September is particularly warm.

While every window is closed, there could be a dozen flies lying on the window sill by the next morning. They can get into the smallest cracks in double glazing.

They will disappear in a cold snap. Just keep a vacuum cleaner handy. You can also get poison pens (like a Tippex pen) to rub on the window frames.

fussyonion

Sorry, am I being thick here or what....hoovering them up?
While they're alive?

Jimbob1977

fussyonion wrote: »

Sorry, am I being thick here or what....hoovering them up?
While they're alive?

Just hoover up the corpses.

For the living ones, I'd open a window quickly and shoo them out with a tea towel or my arms.

biko

Great source of protein

Stigura

JmcSal wrote: »

Please help. I ..... found about 20 dying blue bottles on the floor.

fussyonion wrote: »

Sorry, am I being thick here or what....hoovering them up?
While they're alive?

Would ye suggest a xtian burial? Little, fly sized, coffins? Little, fly, headstones?

Esel

You'll need some hooverflies to help with the clean-up.

JmcSal

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

We tend to get an influx of bluebottles in September/October every year.

It usually occurs when September is particularly warm.

While every window is closed, there could be a dozen flies lying on the window sill by the next morning. They can get into the smallest cracks in double glazing.

They will disappear in a cold snap. Just keep a vacuum cleaner handy. You can also get poison pens (like a Tippex pen) to rub on the window frames.

Thanks so much. I'm glad to hear someone who has been through similar sharing some sense with me. It's been 90mins no without a sight of one.
Hoping I don't wake up to any more in the morning.

fussyonion

Stigura wrote: »

Would ye suggest a xtian burial? Little, fly sized, coffins? Little, fly, headstones?

Er, I don't like the idea of LIVING flies in my hoover thanks very much.

Stigura

fussyonion wrote: »

Er, I don't like the idea of LIVING flies in my hoover thanks very much.

Burst of generic Fly Killer up the intake pipe. These are flies. Not Special Forces. And, note; They were found dying anyway. Impaction wouldn't improve their lot.

But, each to their own. Dozen dying flies on ye floor? Call that priest! :pac:

Ghekko

Do you have a fireplace? Had that problem where there was a dead crow in the chimney and the bluebottles were coming down the chimney. Took hours to figure it out and was all afternoon hoovering and shooing the dirty things out the window. Boarded up the fireplace til we got chimney cleaned - poor cleaner!

JmcSal

Ghekko wrote: »

Do you have a fireplace? Had that problem where there was a dead crow in the chimney and the bluebottles were coming down the chimney. Took hours to figure it out and was all afternoon hoovering and shooing the dirty things out the window. Boarded up the fireplace til we got chimney cleaned - poor cleaner!

No. I don't have a fireplace. The attic is in the sitting room though.
I'm planning on calling a pest control of I wake up to more tomorrow.

PlamenDon

JmcSal wrote: »

No. I don't have a fireplace. The attic is in the sitting room though.
I'm planning on calling a pest control of I wake up to more tomorrow.

The attic is in the sitting room though. ?????

What does tat mean?

jimmy blevins

PlamenDon wrote: »

The attic is in the sitting room though. ?????

What does tat mean?

...and the sitting room is in the attic.

JmcSal

PlamenDon wrote: »

The attic is in the sitting room though. ?????

What does tat mean?

My apartment is a duplex. Sitting room and kitchen upstairs with a balcony. And bedrooms and bathroom downstairs.
Someone suggested there may be a dead bird in the attic.

JmcSal

Ok so none when I woke up this morning. But left at 10 & just got home to find 5 dying ones in the same spot.

ScumLord

JmcSal wrote: »

What are these? How do they get in the house? And how can I get rid?

Spiders.

jayo26

Did you remember to flush the toilet.....

Shannon757

I love these dramatic threads. Best of luck OP.







*grabs popcorn*

MonkieSocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcNnS9k884

PlamenDon

Please don't die.

Whispered

ScumLord wrote: »

Spiders.

And a bird, just in case.