Where are all these flies coming from.
By
on
March 29th, 2009
My husband and I live in Florida and just moved in a rental home about a week ago. We set off a few bug bombs a week ago and there were a few dead roaches but no flies. The last 3 days we have been finding tons of dead flies, picked up about 30 yesterday and about 25 today. We have seen a few live ones but they are really slow or are flipped over and twitching. We have a grapefruit tree in our backyard but we haven’t seen any flies around the fruit. We set the bombs a week ago and I think if something was simply dead we would for sure smell it by now. More rooms seem to have more than others, mostly in the kitchen and laundry room but none in the kid’s rooms. Any ideas why we have so many dead flies around.
I took a few pics, it is a little blurry though. Just let me know where to send them. They have a gray abdomen and the rest of their body is speckled gray and it looks like they have a red head.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skieinc/2636508927/
kind of like that fly
Oh and there is something really funny/stupid with this house. The vent in our laundry room doesn’t go anywhere, it just blows into the wall. Could this maybe be causing the problem. We have a attic but we have looked in there.
longgunner says:
Do you have a picture of one of them. Sounds like they may be in your walls. Flies will lay their eggs and then die. You could very well have them in the walls and they may be feeding and reproducing on something you can not smell. Do you have an attic. Any bird problems. If so have you looked in the attic. If you can post a pic somewhere I can help you identify the species and then we can figure out what they are doing there
March 29th, 2009 at 2:46 am