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  • 18-09-2016 2:56pm
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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭


    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?


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    #2
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Your apartment is haunted.

    You'll need to burn it down.


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    TeaBagMania
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TeaBagMania


    don't drop acid before you go to bed


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    milehip
    Registered Users Posts: 733 ✭✭✭milehip


    Finish them off you monster!


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    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


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


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    Rachiee
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Rachiee


    Dead blue bottles are a sign of demons call a priest


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


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    Loveinapril
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    Move. Now.


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    jayo26
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    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.


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


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


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    kneemos
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    https://youtu.be/lcjAedlIPoU


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    corner of hells
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    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.


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    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭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.


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭JmcSal


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQseahtPVAA

    Lol well thaaaaanks for that


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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?


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


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


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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?


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    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭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?


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    Skyfarm
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭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


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    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭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.


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    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.


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    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭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


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    JmcSal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭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.


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    Boom_Bap
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    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


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    Fathom
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    Blue Bottles. Short story title. Mysterious. Haunted.


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    Jimbob1977
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    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.


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