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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2007invasion of the flies (GW)
Okay gross warning here. Ok, I'm not too picky about insects in general. They are part of hte earth, the food chain, etc. But I have a strict rule. You, the insect, come into my home, you are forfeiting your life. Now occasionally I'll have the fly that snuck in thorugh an open door or something, and the cats are amused by it. They'll be lying around when suddenly their ears will perked up and they'll start following something. I've even seen the occasional cat jump up and try to smack the fly-by-insect. But imagine my surprise when I'm in the living room and see a fly and when i stand up to look for a magazine to swat it, I see not one, not two, but at least TEN flies buzzing around the living room and kitchen. Talk about major EEEW!!!! I did the dishes, cleaned the litter box, took out the garbage, etc. I managed to kill most of them, and ending up breaking a lampshade in the process. Ick... So I woke up, went to work today and made a note to check the living room when i got home. So imagine my surprise when i come home and found a LOT more flies in my living room. When I turned on the light they swirled around it. I'm sorry but I was THOROUGHLY grossed out. The last time i saw this many flies in one place was when i was in RVT school on the FARM!!! I immediately ran back out of the apartment and to the nearest OSH hardware and came back with some rubber gloves and a flyjar. The plastic jar has fly bait in it and is activated when you add water. I filled it up, put it by the lamp with the broken shade where all the flies were congregating and invited the flies to their new home. I started to check the corners of the living room but there are so many flies i don't even wanna begin tonight. I have no idea where they are coming from especially since i just cleaned out the obviously smelly areas. And I checked all the window screens. OH and meanwhile, the cats seem amused by all these flying toys. Especially when one gets close enough to swat. Especially Imp, who likes bugs. I've shut the door to the back room but there's at least one fly buzzing around. Imp is on full alert mode and is canvassing the ceiling for it. Mischief is also on alert and looking around DEATH TO FLIES!!! Ugh, I need a drink...... Kristi > Okay gross warning here. > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > Kristi I share your horror of flies. A quick and effective way to get them out is to darken the room (if you can) and leave one source of light -- like a window. They will fly to the light source and then you can either open the window or swat them. I had an Aunt who was Mrs Clean personified. When we visited her in Los Angeles, she took us to the Farmers' Market for lunch. The p;ace swarmed with flies but it didn't bother her one bit. She brushed them aside and said "Oh, it's just a fly". I was really grpssed out. MLB OMG, that totally worked. I took a small lamp and put it in the doorway of my patio. Then I went with a garbage bag and started stirring up the flies GO TO THE LIGHT! I said, GO ON! Fortunately m patio is covered with plants and trees so you can't look in and see this girl thrashing this garbage around at the walls and ceiling yelling, GO TO THE LIGHT! Anyways, it seems that most of them have gone. YAY!!!! THANK YOU!!! Now to get the rest of them...... LEAVE OR DIE!!!! > OMG, that totally worked. I took a small lamp and put it in the doorway > of my patio. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > LEAVE OR DIE!!!! You probably exorcized a few spirits while you were at it! MLB > OMG, that totally worked. I took a small lamp and put it in the > doorway of my patio. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > in and see this girl thrashing this garbage around at the walls and > ceiling yelling, GO TO THE LIGHT! Oh what I wouldn't give to have had a CCTV camera trained on your patio! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Oh what I wouldn't give to have had a CCTV camera trained on your > patio! > > Lesley Oh shush...... the fly bait hasn't done diddly squat.... But when i came home today there were ten more but they were all up against the window, the brightest spot in the area. So I went back outside and removed the screen. Interestingly, there were flies already stuck between the window and the screen. hmmmm... anyway, then i went back inside and opened the window. Then some more shooing and all the flies left. I figure they have to be coming from either the outside and sneaking in through a hole or something, or..... Either way, I plan to scrub clean my kitchen this weekend Kristi >> Oh what I wouldn't give to have had a CCTV camera trained on your >> patio! [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Kristi I wish you luck. We have a regular problem this time of year. Quite a few flies unless its windy, and several get in every day it seems no matter what we do. They all then congregate at the kitchen window as that is the brightest spot in the house. Especially if the lights and TVs are off. I have to remember to vacuum out the tracks in that window regularly. In late afternoon they all head for the door into the back yard as the sun moves around, and if I haven't swatted them all I can usually chase them all out that way. Jo >>Oh what I wouldn't give to have had a CCTV camera trained on your >>patio! [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Either way, I plan to scrub clean my kitchen this weekend Might one of your crew have hidden a defunct mouse somewhere? Even if YOU don't smell it, the flies can! (And of course, once you have maggots breeding in some hidden spot, they keep hatching into flies.) >OMG, that totally worked. I took a small lamp and put it in the >doorway of my patio. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >LEAVE OR DIE!!!! I'm afraid I have to laugh... I'm sure it was a horrible experience for you, and I hope it's over, but the mental picture is too funny for words! > Okay gross warning here. > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Kristi Ewwww. I'd have been grossed out, too. But it happens to the best of us. Usually in the fall, it's like they know it's gonna turn cold and they're trying to get in. I don't kill many insects, I usually catch them and turn them outside. But I draw the line at flies, roaches, ticks and fleas. For other bugs, I found this cool contraption in a catalogue. It's an insect vacuum. It looks a little Star-WAr-ish, rather like a hollow light sabre. You flip the switch, suck up the bug, and empty it outside. I'm really not pro-life WRT bugs, I just don't like to squish them because it's just plain gross. Sherry > don't like to squish them because it's just plain gross. I can't do it and if anyone else does the noise makes me feel sick! When Dave was in Thames House I spotted what looked like a roach (Long, black and shiny, I didn't look any closer than that) and I nearly screamed when one of the domestic staff stood on it...I had to shut my eyes until she'd swept the mess up Okay I'm squeamish about that Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. Sarsi got one the other night, ate it and then came up to rub faces....YUK! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the >two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. I'd like to have the right photos to go with the following LOLcats caption: "Is Caturday?" "No. Is Fly-day...but I eated it."  SignatureWayne M. >>Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the >>two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >"No. Is Fly-day...but I eated it." lol!!!!!!!!! Oh my! You need a photo of Tessie the great black huntress for that... she adores bugs. ANY bugs... but she especially likes flies becuase they're big enough for her to easily see them, and yet small and nimble enough to provide a good chase. We don't get many flies inside (they don't seem to HAVE a lot of flies in Florida, fortunately! Not compared to Australia anyway...) but when we do, the girls are right on the job. not too many flies,true,but the lovebugs & 'skeeters? OH MY! >>>Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the >>>two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > fortunately! Not compared to Australia anyway...) but when we do, the > girls are right on the job. >> Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the >> two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > "No. Is Fly-day...but I eated it." How's this one? http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson/Vino/photo#5098025146325062162 SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson >> "No. Is Fly-day...but I eated it." > >How's this one? >http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson/Vino/photo#5098025146325062162 ROFLMAO Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> I'd like to have the right photos to go with the following LOLcats >> caption: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >How's this one? >http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson/Vino/photo#5098025146325062162 Oh my! That's a perfect choice. You going to submit it? SignatureWayne M. >>> I'd like to have the right photos to go with the following LOLcats >>> caption: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Oh my! That's a perfect choice. You going to submit it? I would like to. But you came up with the caption and the idea. If it's ok with you, I will submit it. SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson >I would like to. But you came up with the caption and the idea. If >it's ok with you, I will submit it. Yes, certainly. SignatureWayne M. >>> Flies are risking their existence if they come in here, we have the >>> two big black fly hunters who think flies make wonderful toys. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > How's this one? > http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson/Vino/photo#5098025146325062162 Thanks for the laugh! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek >> Okay gross warning here. >> DEATH TO FLIES!!! >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Sherry I'm with you Sherry. The only thing worse than flies are fly guts. I'm always scolding the DH to not be smacking that sh*t inside of my kitchen. Since returning to Houston, we run the ac 24/7 so don't open windows, and because of that (thankfully) hardly any fly action inside of the house. Of course there's the pesky inconvenience of a sky-rocketing power bill from running the ac non-stop, but hey.....what are ya gonna do? -bonbon Do you have a fireplace? They will come down the chimney, Jo > Okay gross warning here. > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Kristi The one time I had a fly invasion, I have no idea where they came from or what triggered it. The extent of the issue wasn\'t immediately obvious. I swatted what I thought was a fly I\'d accidentally let into the house. Minutes later, I was dive-bombed by another fly. \"Boy, that\'s odd; two flies must have gotten in at the same time.\" Hello, flyswatter; goodbye, fly. Problem solved, or so I thought. So when yet another fly buzzed past my ear shortly thereafter, I was astonished. Then the ugly realization began to dawn. I scoured anything that I thought might have contributed to the situation at all (sink, trash can, and litterboxes spring to mind), and hung some flypaper from the ceiling above the cats\' dishes (from which the cats would free-feed dry cat food). It took 2 or 3 strips of flypaper, over several days, but eventually the rest of the flies succumbed. And, more importantly, the little &*%=+$#s never came back, thank goodness! One episode like that was one too many. Donna, Captain, and Stanley We don't have flies but right now we are being invaded by millipedes. I'm so sick of millipedes. Hundreds of millipedes. For some reason they're attracted to the cat's water bowls and every day there are usually five or ten or a hundred millipedes that we have to clean out of the water bowls. An search for information says in times of high rainfall or extreme drought millipedes will begin migrating and apparently we are in their migration path. Apparently they don't harm anything but when crushed they smell bad and may leave a stain. They must taste bad because the cats won't have anything to do with them. As much as I hate flies, I'm beginning to hate millipedes even more. <sigh> Julie > Okay gross warning here. > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Kristi As much as I hate adding to the gross factor... I'm assuming, you being a vet tech, you know where flies come from*? Have you searched the apartment for any meat or catfood the furry ones may have dropped behind furniture? Is there a garbage can outside close to your door? * For those who don't.... flies lay their eggs in dead flesh and the eggs turn into maggots and the maggots turn into adult flies. Hugs, CatNipped > Okay gross warning here. > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > Ugh, I need a drink...... One of Sammy's nicknames is "Sammy Fly-killer". She is amazingly good at catching and killing flies (as big as she is you'd think she's be too slow to catch a fly mid-air!). We'll have to talk to the mothership to see about transporting her there until your fly problem is taken care of. The only thing is, she doesn't eat them, she just kills them and leaves them on the floor for me to sweep up. Hugs, CatNipped > Kristi |
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