Flies in old house

anronmor

Hi folks,
We moved into an old house and there are a lot of these flies in the house, could be the time of year but thought Id ask in case its more serious
Thanks

anronmor

anronmor wrote: »

Hi folks,
We moved into an old house and there are a lot of these flies in the house, could be the time of year but thought Id ask in case its more serious
Thanks

Photos attwched

punisher5112

Flies everywhere....

Clear any trace of food and spray the place clean....

Close any cracks or gaps.

Sausage dog

If the flies are small fruit flies you will need to clean, clean, clean. Find where they are congregating To trap them pour some vinegar into a bowl with a little washing up liquid. Cover the bowl with cling film & use a skewer to poke a few holes in the film. Leave for a few hours. They will crawl in & won't be able to get out. If they're larger flies get a fly swatter or fly spray. Good luck!

Steve

Sausage dog wrote: »

If the flies are small fruit flies you will need to clean, clean, clean. Find where they are congregating To trap them pour some vinegar into a bowl with a little washing up liquid. Cover the bowl with cling film & use a skewer to poke a few holes in the film. Leave for a few hours. They will crawl in & won't be able to get out. If they're larger flies get a fly swatter or fly spray. Good luck!

Jam jar with some holes in the lid with some red wine inside works wonders as well.

Muahahaha

Had a fly problem before and it was a multi week battle of fly spray everywhere. Id kill 8-10 everyday and the next day another 8-10 would show up. I think they were laying eggs somewhere, it only got solved by spraying every gap in the room I could find, skirting boards, the lot. Cleaned the entire room top to bottom too.

BarryD2

What does OP mean by 'a lot'? If it's just a half dozen here & there, cleaning up as suggested above. If they're all over the windows etc., then suspect something is dead somewhere and the flies are hatching from this. If it's inaccessible, it'll rot and dry out and the problem will fade in time.

BrokenArrows

How long have you lived there? Has the problem existed from day 1?

twignme

It sounds like you have cluster flies.

looksee

There does seem to have been a lot of flies around this summer, but it does seem to be a thing that if you move into a house that has been empty for a while the flies literally come out of the woodwork. Its hard to see what is in that picture, but it doesn't seem to be the kind of fly that hatches off a dead bird/mouse hidden somewhere. As the others have said, just spray (when everyone is out, close the doors and windows, give each room a good spray, and leave it for a while). You will get rid of them fairly quickly.

Stigura

twignme wrote: »

It sounds like you have cluster flies.

Sounds like it. Agreed. But, no way on gods little green earth does OP's photo Look like one.

I was more ye vertebrates sort of man. Of course, I learned about Clusters, along the way. Nice way for Pest Controllers to make money out of peoples ignorance and fear.

They come. They cluster. They go. If they're in ye roof space? Get over it. Schit lives in this world, other than us. They're not going to puke on ye dinner

Which leads me to wonder about OP's 'Actual' problem. What they doing, OP? Bugging ye? As has been said; Can of Raid.

Are they a health risk? Dunno. Need a clearer picture. Putting my head on the block here (Rapturous Applause and unsheafing of knives!!!) But, ye know what? That doesn't even look like a 'Fly', to me

BrokenArrows

Get a few cats.

My house has never been more fly free since i got 2 cats. They hunt them down and kill them, its great.

Muahahaha

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Get a few cats.

My house has never been more fly free since i got 2 cats. They hunt them down and kill them, its great.

My cat would just bat at them with his claws if they came near his head. No way was the lazy fecker going off on a hunt for them