Anyone suffering from fly issues

chou-chou · 29 September 2011 at 12:45PM

We had someting similar once when a rat had died under the floorboards. Was followed by a terrible smell!!! These were very slow lazy ones as well - think they were very well fed!

jess1974 · 29 September 2011 at 2:14PM

I think you may have a dead body somwhere in your house

WolfSong2000 · 29 September 2011 at 2:17PM

*debbie* wrote: »

We seem to have Daddy-long-legs by the million at the moment. I am hoping the numbers will drop off soon as every time any windows are opened we get a dozen come in. I really don't like killing things (tend to even trap flies!) but have resorted to DH's fly swatter!

Oh, I hear ya! as just falling asleep the other night, when something flew into my face...scrambled to turn the light on and found out it was a daddy-long-legs. Totally freaked me out having it fly at me in the dark as I wasn't sure what it was

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ceegee · 29 September 2011 at 2:22PM

chou-chou wrote: »

We had someting similar once when a rat had died under the floorboards. Was followed by a terrible smell!!!

I'm glad it ain't just me! I had a dead rat under my floorboards about 18 years ago. Oh my, the smell was unbelievable and had been wafting all around the house as it had died by an airbrick and the weather was warm too, just to make it even worse.

I understood then where the expression to "smell a rat" came from.

........and what is it with these huge spiders? Over the past few years I've had three of the things with bodies the size of £2 coins......it's a job to get them completely trapped into the upturned jamjar I use. There's legs sticking out everywhere.:eek::eek::eek:

Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk.

poppysarah · 29 September 2011 at 2:25PM

sharpee wrote: »

Yeah we have them too, H2B freaked out last night when we found a spider whose body was the size of a £2 coin!:eek:

Also got nasty black ladybirds.

Its all horible so many creep crawlies!

Need to get a photo of one of these big ones.

Suspect one was eaten by neighbours cat. Cat died.

ceegee · 29 September 2011 at 2:31PM

Re the big spider thing......take a deep breath and click.......

http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th11f(1).htm

:eek::eek::o

lincroft1710 · 29 September 2011 at 3:49PM

September is the month for daddy longlegs and spiders spinning their webs all over the place. Also wasps tend to proliferate in September. A small dead animal hidden in wall cavities or between floors just needs one fly to lay eggs in it, which hatch into maggots which eat said dead animal then pupate into flies.