Green bottles and sunflowers

[cocomellonnn]

I had a load of late blooming sunflowers in my garden and snipped them , long stem and put into a vase. But recently a storm toppled a few, so I gathered them and put them in vases around the house.

Since then I've noticed small green bottles, very dopy ones you can kill easily by placing a bit of paper over them in my house.

Ive been assuming its the flowers, but I do have young ones and worried there's a dead mouse or rotting piece of food hidden by the kids.

Can someone tell me its likely to be the sunflowers? I forget the species, but they are huge growing sunflowers around 8foot tall.

Green bottles - sorry dont understand your post at all???

What are green bottles?

Sorry, green bottle flies!

I keep seeing one or two by the window in the kitchen where the flowers are, I brought in a load of sunflowers into my house.

Its not like I can smell rotting food or a dead mouse, but its an old Victorian house , so lots of nooks and crannies for something to be lurking.

I'd only ever heard of blue bottles - didn't know there was green as well! I'd take the sunflowers out and see if the flies go. I often find that flowers from the garden bring in flies so I don't really bring them in any more.

Thanks , nothing on tin'ternet about greenbottle flies and sunflowers other than they hatch from rotting food and animals.

Anyway, I've taken them all out the house, shame, they really brighten up the place.

Is it tiny? Sounds like a pollen beetle. There's a one which can have a green shine to it, and they are really drawn to yellow flowers. Yellow anything!

You probably brought them in with the flowers. But they're absolutely of no harm.

No need to kill them, couldn't you just put them outside?

Luckly they see to appear on window, so I just nudge them out , but must confess I did kill 2 when I first saw them, thought they were greenbottle flies. They don't act like real flies, so I think you're right. I hate killing living thiings,

Thanks @TheSpottedZebra