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Why do flys in my house always go to the one room to die?It's is spring and school holidays.It is also blowfly season.I have kids and pets and none of the seem to know how to shut a screen door(pets are excused).So the place fills up with blowies.So I hit 'em with the bug spray.Five minutes later my lounge room floor is covered in rap dancing blowies in their death throes.Is it because it faces north?And it is only the blowies that go there to die.Weird,huh?
Cheers,Steve, the blowfly slayer.
Does it get a lot of light? Go to the light .... :U
Do you have a decomposing body in there, by some chance? Just an idea.
Question 1...No
Question 2...I had a smell and a peek under the house,no body there.
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Originally Posted by Steve Fryar
Sorry, that's all I had. :D
Actually blowies try to fly from the 'dark' towards a light - so if the rest of the house is relatively dark compared to a north facing window, then they will all end up there.
Scenario: blowie flies past, detects an interesting smell, flies in door & can't find anything or otherwise looses interest, it then goes to rule #2 & heads towards the brightest light then beats itself against the window glass.
They use this in cattle areas to cut down on the number of blowies annoying cattle. Large-ish shed of dark material with brushes just inside the entrance - in middle of roof there is a skylight at the top of a long tube. The cow wanders in looking for food or a drink, the flies are pushed off by the brushes, fly towards the skylight where they bake to death then fall down into a collecting tray.
That's how I get rid of a blowy in the bed room. Turn bathroom light on and bedroom light off. Wait for fly to fly out. Shut door.:D
And I thought it was because the blowies were all trying to get to the legendary blowies graveyard ( bit like the once believed in elephants' graveyard where all elephants went to die. Ah well another legend gone.
jerry
I kick the dog in the B%^ and belt the kids over the head and the blowies dont come in.:D:D
Plus i live in ballarat - they only come out in hot weather dont they??:D
If you want to reduce the number of blowies trying to get in go to Bunnings and buy one of these for about $10. (See picture) I bought one last summer and I just emptied it last Thursday because of all the flies from last summer and the winter because it was chock a block full so I put a new bait in it to go again. This is a picture of the all the the flies that have gone to their death since last Thursday & that includes bush flies and house flies.
Now it doesn't get them all as a few get in and I don't have any kids or animals leaving doors open because we religiously close the fly doors all the time. The few that do get in we swat with a fly swatter because I hate spraying toxic fly sprays around.
Sounds like TL has a fly problem in the bathroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by tea lady