Invaded by flying bug things last night!

FrugleRock

We had our back door open last night and once we got back in the house, the kitchen, dining room and lounge had sooo many bugs on the walls

I'm not sure what they are but could any suggest ways of keeping them out? it really freaked me out as there must have been about 20 in each room

We don't want to have to keep windows and doors shut but my goodness they were everywhere!!!!!

Hubby had to go round with the hoover to get rid of them all! they don't seem to have much of a life span either as tend to be dead by the next morning!

Thanks in advance
Gemx

frosty

Hi,at the start of summer we put up a door screen,we only paid £7.00 for it and we are on to our third summer,so well worth the money.You can buy them for windows aswell,our local hardware store sells them,I think Kleeneze or betterware sell them aswell.

pollyskettle

We've had these too. Never had this problem before, and they seem to mainly congregate around the front door (very cool there) in the early evening. They're like baby daddylonglegs - very strange things, but also very stupid and slow - we vacuumed them up as they were flying along! There were loads and loads of them, with no obvious point of entry as the windows were shut by then.

Frosty - we had a fly screen over the back door last year, it drove us potty as the dog wouldn't touch it or walk through it on her own so we had to hold it open for her every five minutes - took it down in the end!

Februarycat

I had something like that happen last year, I had my kitchen window open quite late in the evening and when I went in the window sills, table, floor was full of like flying ant creatures, it was awful and Im not very good with bugs, took about an hour to get them killed and hoovered up, yuck,

CupOfChai

:eek:

I detest bugs! Had a horrible paranoid moment just now when I thought I could hear a wasp had got in somewhere.

foxgloves

Are they mosquitoes? Out house is suddenly full of them & I've got 4 very itchy sore bites on the back of my leg. They don't like citronella candles, but in my experience, not all candles labelled as citronella seem to have sufficient of the oil in them to be much of a deterrent.....except some my Mum got me last year from a garden centre. They are quite large bright yellow round glass containers with the candle inside and mosquitoes don't seem to like those at all.....which is a result when you get react nastily to bits, like I seem to.

frosty

Frosty - we had a fly screen over the back door last year, it drove us potty as the dog wouldn't touch it or walk through it on her own so we had to hold it open for her every five minutes - took it down in the end![/QUOTE]



The one we have has five strips of mesh,when our dogs go through it it closes behind them,we used to use beaded curtains but we spent more time untangling the dogs we changed to the mesh one.

pollyskettle

frosty wrote: »

Frosty - we had a fly screen over the back door last year, it drove us potty as the dog wouldn't touch it or walk through it on her own so we had to hold it open for her every five minutes - took it down in the end!

The one we have has five strips of mesh,when our dogs go through it it closes behind them,we used to use beaded curtains but we spent more time untangling the dogs we changed to the mesh one.

:rotfl: Sorry that made me laugh! Ours was a mesh one as well, but she was scared of it and wouldn't go near it. It was one which had two strips which overlapped so we tried cutting more strips at the very bottom so that she could just walk through and she wouldn't even do that. She's quite a bizarre dog, she spent a lot of energy 'protecting' us from a hot air balloon the other night

Peartree

If they were a bit like flies then, as Februarycat suggested, they could be swarming ants although it does seem a little early in the year. If that it the case, have a really good look around outside, particularly around your house walls, for ants. Try and find nests and then get rid of them. I'm sure there are old style cures knocking around on the board but, to be honest, I've found the spray you buy in the DIY stores works the best as it creates a longer term barrier.

I've got loads of ants under my patio and have had swarming ants in the dining room a couple of times so I try to keep the population down. Having said that, I had a fabulous experience with them last year. When they swarmed, the swifts you usually only see high up in the sky, spent an afternoon swooping down on my patio to eat them (they catch insects to eat while flying) and I had a front row seat from my bedroom window. It was quite stunning.