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DARNLY · 18/10/2024 08:33

Hi all moved to a lovely new house with 3 flours which we love, only problem we have lots of windows and a sunny aspect. However are getting flies in the house more on the third floor. We are opposite a field lovely view wondering if this is part of the problem. I love open windows really believe in them, so finding it distressing. Never had this problem before and am very clean and organised.. Any advice for products that may actually work and be discreet. its not all the time. Thank you love this site for info, Mums always have knowledge.

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PadstowGirl · 18/10/2024 08:34

Reframe your thinking? You don't be able to eradicate Flies, although they will die off soon in the colder weather. Flies are a necessary part of the ecosystem.

FuzzyPuffling · 18/10/2024 08:38

Cluster flies, I suspect. Most active in spring and autumn ( especially Spring, beware April!).
You'll never get rid of them, but they are harmless and a countryside hazard.
( Have you been in your loft yet?!)

bifurCAT · 18/10/2024 08:39

FuzzyPuffling · 18/10/2024 08:38

Cluster flies, I suspect. Most active in spring and autumn ( especially Spring, beware April!).
You'll never get rid of them, but they are harmless and a countryside hazard.
( Have you been in your loft yet?!)

I agree, but a picture would help confirm

BalletCat · 18/10/2024 10:21

We live in the country and have been overrun they've driven me insane.

We put fly screens on all our windows, all gone!

toomuchfaff · 18/10/2024 10:23

Having travelled to places with flies, they all have screens on the windows externally, you're then able to open the windows freely no worries.

stealthsquirrelnutkin · 18/10/2024 10:32

Another vote for fly screens on all the windows and doors. They are cheap, easy to install, keep out flies and wasps, and you can leave the windows wide open at night with the lights on without being invaded by mosquitoes and moths.

Cappuccinowithonesugarplease · 18/10/2024 10:58

Yes fly screens, we have a very similar house overlooking fields but not in the uk.

Hoardasurass · 18/10/2024 11:05

Carnivorous plants. Pitcher plants are best, you put 1 on each of the window sills where there coming in and they deal with the problem and all you need to do is water them once a week and pot them up as and when necessary

Nogaxeh · 18/10/2024 11:09

Is there a loft space above the third floor?

We went to see a house that had lots of dead flies on the upper floor, and a peek in the loft revealed a huge mass of further dead flies. We suspect that if we'd look further we'd likely had found that something had died up there and attracted all the flies.

1apenny2apenny · 18/10/2024 11:16

As PP has said they are cluster flies. They appear on warm spring and autumn days. Nigh on impossible to get rid of but can be reduced. I use this:

https://pest-expert.com/pest-expert-formula-c-cluster-fly-spray-1ltr-118-p.asp

They do a powder too. They don't completely go but it helps.

Pat888 · 19/10/2024 06:26

You could spray the windowsills - put spray along say the upper edge of the glass.
I read that they come back to where they were before, so next year will be with you again so possibly a good idea to get rid of them if you can.

Arcadia · 19/10/2024 06:29

Norfolk?

ManhattanPopcorn · 19/10/2024 06:30

Google 'attic flies'.

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DARNLY · 19/10/2024 07:37

Thank you all so much for all your helpful information. I will look into all the suggestions. Nothing in the loft I think they are attracted to sunbathing on the windows!! However I will put something up there to deter. Any further recommended products please let me know that is probably what I will start with, don/t have curtains or blinds up yet. x I am obsessed with open windows so it is a problem.

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WhitegreeNcandle · 19/10/2024 07:53

We have cluster fly problems. We smoke bomb the loft every so often and use red top fly traps.

SpringleDingle · 19/10/2024 07:54

Store the corpses elsewhere, should reduce the fly infestation!

WonderingWanda · 19/10/2024 08:03

We had cluster flies in our house when we moved in. They were in the loft and in all the hollow panels in the conservatory. We got rid of them by smoke bombing, sealing all the gaps and getting one of those hideous outdoor fly traps as well as spraying the outside walls they were attracted too. Took a few years but they don't come back now. They leave a scent that tells them where to come back to and they are attacted to light south facing surfaces.

BustingBaoBun · 19/10/2024 08:05

DARNLY · 19/10/2024 07:37

Thank you all so much for all your helpful information. I will look into all the suggestions. Nothing in the loft I think they are attracted to sunbathing on the windows!! However I will put something up there to deter. Any further recommended products please let me know that is probably what I will start with, don/t have curtains or blinds up yet. x I am obsessed with open windows so it is a problem.

Ok. I have lived in this house that was built on very fertile land a long time ago. And we have a sunny aspect. I know all about flies!
It will be the loft where they will be congregating . You need this....see below I promise you, it's the only thing that works, sprays and all of that completely ineffective. Setting one of these smoke bombs off kills the flies the nests everything

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01INN5VP4?ref=ppx

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