Help... Bluebottles!

[HelpAGirlOut1234]

I've come home the last 2 days to at least 10 to 15 bluebottles on my patio doors in the kitchen.

My kitchen is spotless. I literally just tore the place apart in a huge house clean... all cupboards cleaned and steamed, all appliances moved, cleaned, steamed. Everything has literally been bleached and steamed within the last 1.5 weeks. Definitely no rotting food or anything anywhere.

I just don't understand where they're coming from.

I do have an attic door in my kitchen but please don't tell me it's that. I'm terrified of attics, have never been in either of mine, and I cannot go up there!!!!

Could it be from something else???

They might be cluster flies - I don’t know loads about it but we used to get them in our cottage. You'd need to get a man to come and spray (probably your attic but you don’t need to go in!) and then they'll be gone!

Thank you so much... I've just looked up cluster flies and now I'm not sure if that's what they are, or if they're bluebottles.

Should I give it a couple of days of killing them off and see if they disappear? If so, how many days do you think?

Do I just call an exterminator after that if they don't go away? I've never actually had to call out any kind of pest control.

My advice is make sure you kill them asap. This is not the time for loving all living things.... In my last rental, there were about 5 bluebottles in a flat. Then there were 20, which was when I bought the fly spray. The intervention was too late.... I came home from a night out to a scene straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. I was literally sweeping them with a broom off the worktops and floor. It appears something had died in the cavity wall. Absolute nightmare. The moral of this story is nuke them asap.

Contact your local pest control and send them a picture of the flies. If it's cluster flies, you can get them treated. If it's bluebottles you likely have a 'body' somewhere (a rat or a pigeon or something) - they'll go in a couple of weeks and it's usually best to just wait it out, unless the body is somewhere obvious, because it could be under the floorboards or in the cavity wall, or anywhere & it's not worth destroying your house to find it.

Oooooh!!!! Stop it! I was always a nature loving dope and used to shoo them out the door, but there's no shooing these fuckers, they've all been splatted and hoovered and emptied outside.

I'm kind of freaking out a bit, your experience hasn't helped!!!! 😅

Oh, good call, I'll take a picture of them tomorrow if they're there when I get home, and maybe put a few in a jar in case pest control need them.

Oh, and another question... I have rented my home for 5years, if it turns out there's something in the attack attracting these flippers, is it my responsibility, or the landlord's to deal with them?

*attic

I only have 2 houseplants, can't imagine it's them... maybe I'll put them outside for a few days though 👍

Honestly, it was maggot hell for about 10 days. The funniest part of it was that the landlord was selling it from under me, and the next morning the photographer turned up to take photos after I had spent 2 hours literally sweeping maggots into the food waste bin for lack of anything else to do with them, and disinfecting stuff, and was then making a fuss over there being tea towels hung up. I admit I was not at my most polite to him!!