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Infestation of flies. Anyone help.

26 replies

notacooldad · 08/08/2022 13:15

Yesterday I came home to find my living room window full of flies. The living room door and window was shut.
I got rid of them. An hour later they were back, all over interior the shuuer blinds.
This morning there was bnome there but by 11.00 oclock the window us covered again.

Theres none else where in the house Theres no food in the living room. The house is clean and tidy. Theres no chimney access. What the hell us going in and how can I get rid of them.
Has anyone got any ideas please?

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angeltattoo · 08/08/2022 13:17

Can you pull out the sofa etc?

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Poppyseed14 · 08/08/2022 13:18

Ugh my mum had this and it was a dead bird in her unused chimney. However as you don't have a chimney I'd say there will be something dead somewhere. Maybe a mouse or something. Behind a fridge, any little gaps in kitchen cupboards maybe. Can you locate where the flies seem to be coming from?

NotMyFinestMoment · 08/08/2022 13:24

You probably have an infestation of maggots somewhere. Check everywhere where food could be accidentally dropped, or have fallen down (around/under cooker, fridge, rubbish bin, etc. With that many flies already, they will just keep reproducing. You have to check everywhere around skirting boards, move furniture, etc. until you've found every last one. I had the same problem two weeks ago. I noticed there were some very young flies in the kitchen so went looking for the source and found them in 3 places (2 in the kitchen and one on the hallway). You will also have to be super vigilant and keep rechecking for them. Also double bag any wet food that goes in the rubbish, including pet food. Put your rubbish out daily, otherwise they will go in the bin.

ImBoilingJackie · 08/08/2022 13:24

Gruesome story warning

My nearish neighbour had this recently. 8t turned out that one of the people in the house adjoining theirs had died several weeks previously. The other occupant of this house has MH problems and had not known what to do, so just lived with a corpse in their bathroom.
It was horrible and took some effort to get rid of the flies in my neighbour's property.

WestIsWest · 08/08/2022 13:26

Could they be hatching in the vent in the window if you’ve got UPVC windows? Some have a little trickle vent you can slide open and closed.

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notacooldad · 08/08/2022 13:49

You probably have an infestation of maggots somewhere. Check everywhere where food could be accidentally dropped, or have fallen down (around/under cooker, fridge, rubbish bin, etc
The weird thing is that it's in a room where there is no food. They are on the blinds and window but not in the any other room in the house!
I've had to shut the door and walk away from them for now!!

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cherrypiepie · 08/08/2022 13:51

Do you have a cat. Out brought a mousse jn and the dead body bloomed flies overnight or a few nights as we were away

Utterly repellant. Like you say the whole widow covered.

Check for bodies. Never having a cat again.

cherrypiepie · 08/08/2022 13:52

Not a mousse but that would be funny. Mouse.

Original poster
notacooldad · 08/08/2022 14:25

cherrypiepie
No cats but I do have a chocolate mousse in the fridge!🤣

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Mosaic123 · 08/08/2022 14:32

It might be from a dead mouse under the floor in that room. If you shut the windows can you smell anything strange?

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notacooldad · 08/08/2022 14:56

It might be from a dead mouse under the floor in that room. If you shut the windows can you smell anything strange?
Theres no smell. I've opened the window and they e thinned out a bit but theres still a freaky amount of them around.
There isn't any furniture or clutter around the window bay and theres no curtains so I'd see anything. I'll look at vents and other ideas later on.

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CatsOperatingInGangs · 08/08/2022 14:58

Something will have died somewhere, probably under a floor board. If you leave them an open escape route, they’ll soon disappear.

sunglassesonthetable · 08/08/2022 15:00

when I had this it was a dead bird on the eaves outside.

petshopboys · 08/08/2022 15:07

Have you got a loft or any skylights? We have had trouble with cluster flies which were living in the loft and they were coming through the loft hatches and skylights. We sealed all the gaps with bathroom sealant and it has done the trick.

BertieBotts · 08/08/2022 15:08

Is it something outside the window?

SunflowerGardens · 08/08/2022 15:11

Are your bins outside that window?

courtrai · 08/08/2022 15:13

Depends on the type of flies; bluebottles you've got something rotting somewhere, cluster flies there's a nest.

Either way it's a grim thing to deal with and a pest controller can come and sort it for you (they did ours)

RockinHorseShite · 08/08/2022 15:17

What kind of flies? Housefly type things? Old building?

If so it could be cluster flies. They hide in cracks in property & come out once a year to breed or something like that.

We had this issue when DD was tiny & it drove me nuts & almost had me kicking DH out as I couldn't believe we didn't have a corpse rotting away somewhere like a dead bird on the roof etc & he wasn't checking thoroughly enough 🥴. we'd have up to 25 flies just suddenly appear in each room out of nowhere, get rid of them & more appeared soon after

Turned out to be cluster flies & it took a few years of spraying chimneys, cracks by windows, air bricks etc before it finally stopped

MacKenzieMcHale · 08/08/2022 15:19

I had this and worked out they were coming out of the vent at the top of the window. I assume something had died in there. I fly sprayed the shit out of the room and shut the door; went in an hour later and there were 30-40 dead flies, and that was the end of it.

It was disgusting.

Slowlyslippingaway · 08/08/2022 15:24

Sounds like cluster flies

This site provides information and the products you need to deal with them

www.clusterflyshop.co.uk/cluster-fly-treatment-guide-1-c.asp

mrswhiplington · 08/08/2022 15:37

Are they very tiny flies? We had a problem recently with these. I Googled it and they suggested plant flies. Some of our house plants were infested with them. You have to re-pot the plants to get rid of them.

MaryB90 · 08/08/2022 15:41

Is there a sink in that room?

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notacooldad · 08/08/2022 16:08

Some intersting ideas

However there are no plants in the room. Theres no sink as it is my living room theres no bins -they are round the back of the house and quite far away ., theres no smell. It is a bay window with no furniture in it. There is nothing outside the window . My son parks near the bay but hasn't had his car on the drive recently. No chimney. No food in the room.

Just weird.
I'll get Dh to look at vents as he is a lot taller than me and will access it easier.

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Notanotherwindow · 08/08/2022 17:34

Something somewhere nearby is dead. Just have to find it.

cherrypiepie · 08/08/2022 19:17

If they are medium normal size houseflies they are cluster flies. You can get a smoke bomb to clear them from Amazon.

If they are bigger and sinister looking then there is a body somewhere!

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