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IS this a record?

  • 21-01-2016 2:47pm
    #1
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭


    Being dive bombed BY A HUGE FLY.. am in bed and the house is barely warm...has it been hibernating? WHY OH WHY did I not bother to buy that fly spray in Dealz and why are my cats not chasing it! Is this some kind of a record?


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yeah, it's a Tom Petty record I think.


    Wasps are my problem at the minute. They hibernate in the turf and you end up with two or three a week in the house. Crank bastards when they wake up too.


  • #3
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    Why oh why don't you swallow the fly?

    Then swallow a spider to catch the fly and begin an amusing cycle.


  • #4
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Bio Mech wrote: »
    Why oh why don't you swallow the fly?

    Then swallow a spider to catch the fly and begin an amusing cycle.

    Used to love that song; Burl Ives wasn't it? Wonder if the kids on here have heard of it?


  • #5
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Yeah, it's a Tom Petty record I think.


    Wasps are my problem at the minute. They hibernate in the turf and you end up with two or three a week in the house. Crank bastards when they wake up too.

    No idea who Tom Petty is... yukk re the wasps.. I am almost at the end of the bags of turf the kind landlord gave me so no wasps here thankfully


  • #6
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Big spider in the bath tub last night.


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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Only Queen wasps hibernate so there must be potential for many new colonies in that turf pile.

    Flies don't hibernate and only live for between two and four weeks.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Only Queen wasps hibernate so there must be potential for many new colonies in that turf pile.

    Flies don't hibernate and only live for between two and four weeks.


  • #9
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    We saw a fly in our bed room last Monday week. I wouldn't have thought twice about it, except that it was -19 outside (Chicago).

    He must have the wooliest jumper in all of flydom.


  • #10
    Valentina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    Graces7 wrote: »
    No idea who Tom Petty is...

    Crack the window and let that fly go Into the Great Wide Open...


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Jaxx Deep Nutcracker wrote: »
    Only Queen wasps hibernate so there must be potential for many new colonies in that turf pile.

    Flies don't hibernate and only live for between two and four weeks.

    Aye, always get a heap of them every year, never have many wasps nests around though, they must just come to me for the good turf.


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  • #12
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Had a butterfly flickering against my kitchen window yesterday trying to get out. Is it usually for them to be out in January?


  • #13
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Had a butterfly flickering against my kitchen window yesterday trying to get out. Is it usually for them to be out in January?

    Small Tortoiseshells, in particular, hibernate and the heat in the house often wakes them up at this time of year. It's too cold outside yet so best to put it in a cool dry shed or garage.


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