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    #32
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


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


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    #33
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭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.


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    #34
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Great source of protein


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    #35
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭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? :D


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    #36
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,056 ✭✭✭✭Esel


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

    Not your ornery onager



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    #37
    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    #38
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Stigura wrote: »
    Would ye suggest a xtian burial? Little, fly sized, coffins? Little, fly, headstones? :D

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


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    #39
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭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:


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    #40
    Ghekko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 942 ✭✭✭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!


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    #41
    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    #42
    PlamenDon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 246 ✭✭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?


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    #43
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    PlamenDon wrote: »
    The attic is in the sitting room though. ?????

    What does tat mean?

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


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    #44
    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    #45
    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    #46
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    JmcSal wrote: »
    What are these? How do they get in the house? And how can I get rid?
    Spiders.


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    #47
    jayo26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,779 ✭✭✭✭jayo26


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


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    #48
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    I love these dramatic threads. Best of luck OP.







    *grabs popcorn*


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    #49
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


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

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #50
    PlamenDon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 246 ✭✭PlamenDon


    Please don't die.


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    #51
    Whispered
    Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Spiders.

    And a bird, just in case.


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