CLUSTER FLIES
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CLUSTER FLIES
Has anyone else had this problem,this year has been the worst we have known for 5 years since we moved in .Every afternoon they arrive the front of the cottage is covered doors ,windows ,walls .they even manage to get into the double glazed window frames ,have had to use barrier spray to controle them and flykiller for the ones that get in ,other cottages in the hamlet they dont bother just our cottage ,someone said they target certain houses !!!anyone else been targeted
redburmese- Posts : 281
Join date : 2013-07-18
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Well, Red, we have had hundreds of the b....... things. It all started a few weeks' ago and they started to gather upstairs. We have a very old house, but, it is open plan inside and you can imagine trying to get them out...they flit from one window to the next. Anyway, we have tolerated them and have found that leaving the windows open in the day helped. HOWEVER, we have just been away for a few days and when we got back at midnight the other night we came into the house (which had all its shutters closed) to the sort of drone you would associate with a Hitchcock movie. Turning the lights on revealed something which you might find with a dead body (I think). There were flies everywhere. With the aid of fly spray and our Dyson, we eventually managed to crawl into bed at 1h30 the next morning..........hope to get a better night's sleep tonight!
BLAKEVINE- Posts : 255
Join date : 2013-07-27
Location : 19 Les Charbonniers
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We've had them too but not nearly as bad as you Blakevine - that must have been horrible and not something you want to come back to late at night.
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We've been plagued by them as well. That's the trouble with mild winters like 2013/14; what we need this year is 3 months of bitterly cold temperatures, regular falls of snow amounting to about a metre and crippling frosts. I know Amber will agree........
tocyvi- Posts : 361
Join date : 2013-07-10
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On checking the grenier we found hundreds on the widow pane, we opened the window and out they went.
They do make a loud buzzing which is off putting.
They do make a loud buzzing which is off putting.
Higgy- Posts : 35
Join date : 2013-07-10
Location : Rothbury
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tocyvi wrote:We've been plagued by them as well. That's the trouble with mild winters like 2013/14; what we need this year is 3 months of bitterly cold temperatures, regular falls of snow amounting to about a metre and crippling frosts. I know Amber will agree........
Oh yes, Tocyvi, absolutely, couldn't agree more, one hundred percent.......... now, when are you coming to push my wheelbarrow full of hay through that metre deep snow in order to feed my donkeys?
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Its funny that the other old cottages are not affected ,we must be the lucky ones !!!!
redburmese- Posts : 281
Join date : 2013-07-18
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....and still they continue to cluster! The worst thing is them falling on the bed as our bedroom is the grenier and they seem to like it up there! Ugh.........
BLAKEVINE- Posts : 255
Join date : 2013-07-27
Location : 19 Les Charbonniers
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First of Nov and they are still here on the outside of the house !!its only the barrier fly spray thats keeping them out !!!
redburmese- Posts : 281
Join date : 2013-07-18
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....and still they thrive.....sunny day today brought them out again........ugh.....
BLAKEVINE- Posts : 255
Join date : 2013-07-27
Location : 19 Les Charbonniers
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Think they will be here even when the snow arrives !!hope its not as bad as America which we get two weeks later as a rule .
redburmese- Posts : 281
Join date : 2013-07-18
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LOLZ - So that's what they were!
Came to the region in October to look at properties. Saw an empty house in Haute Vienne where several rooms had huge clusters of them up in the corner of the ceilings. Freaked me out a bit. Thought someone had died in there!
So it’s a Limousin thing… good to know.
Came to the region in October to look at properties. Saw an empty house in Haute Vienne where several rooms had huge clusters of them up in the corner of the ceilings. Freaked me out a bit. Thought someone had died in there!
So it’s a Limousin thing… good to know.
Wormwood- Posts : 13
Join date : 2014-11-17
Location : South East Creuse
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redburmese wrote:!!hope its not as bad as America which we get two weeks later as a rule
The US is such a vast country that they experience a huge range of weather variations every day. The huge snowfall in Buffalo was not repeated anywhere else in the States and will almost definitely not arrive here. To suggest that we will get America's weather here 2 weeks later means that we will have blistering sun, snow, heavy rain and the odd tornado or two all in the space of 24 hours. Rest assured RB, it won't happen
Yours
Michael Fish
tocyvi- Posts : 361
Join date : 2013-07-10
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Michael Fish????? are you taking the Michael, Mick?????? Or are you really Michael Fish? God bless those weather men who get it wrong....
BLAKEVINE- Posts : 255
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BLAKEVINE wrote:are you taking the Michael, Mick?????? ....
Heaven forbid!
tocyvi- Posts : 361
Join date : 2013-07-10
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Surely someone else must be suffering these little bl.....ters again this year? Once the sun comes out, they fill our south facing windows. The good thing is that once you open the window they seem very keen to get outside.....
BLAKEVINE- Posts : 255
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