It all starts with a holiday. Bear with me, the flies will come later. We came back from 3 weeks away last Sunday. A neighbour had been feeding our cat and throwing the empty food sachets into the bin. Not long after we got home dh emptied said bin. He shouted out to me that we had mice and he'd found droppings. I doubted this, as the cat is a loopy killer and would've seen off any mice well before they'd had time to poo. But there were small, brown dropping like things on the floor under and around the bin. We decided they were some kind of eggs or pupae and threw them out.
Today, we came home to find around 15 big fat newly hatched, slightly moist (boak) and dopey flies clinging to our kitchen windows and door. We shooed them out. More kept appearing. I looked under the bin and a couple of pupae were stuck on the underside. So I screamed a bit and threw the bin out of the back door.
Since then a couple more flies have appeared. We don't know where they are coming from.
This leads me to my opening question.
How many of the f*ers can we expect? We've had around 25 so far. We got rid of about 15 pupae when we got back from holiday. We have looked under kitchen cupboards but haven't found any more pupae.
Will the kitchen be a swarming black mass by the morning? My skin is crawling, I've lost my appetite and I keep seeing black things that aren't there out of the corner of my eye.