flies

[Tommeh]

Anyone else having loads?

We've being nicely invaded the last few days, our kitchen at any time will have 5/10 miniumum. Round a mates earlier there was around 50 in the kitchen even my room which is tiny has a couple roaming round. Seriously doing my fcking head in.

[jonthefox]

weve got them at work, but then again the place is a shitshed.

[Mee]

I'm in Rearsby and at the back at my house their are a field with cows in it. House fun of flies

[C-man]

Moths seem to love my room but there are plenty of flies knocking about my gaff. Little bastards.

[BoneDog]

We aint got any round our yard which is strange cos we've always got all the windows open. We always get a couple of spiders come in but no flies or wasps so far.

I like them anyway, it's like having extra pets.

[Part Of The Crowd]

fook loads in our kitchen, kinda started to disappear recently, though.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Well if people didn't go round killing spiders then there'd be less flies in the world.

I'd rather have 1-2 spiders sitting in a dark corner than 50 flies buzzing round my head - it's a fair trade-off.

[Guest Bilo]

I look on the bright side with flies, these bad boys provide hours of entertainment as you pretend you're Rafa Nadal. Only killing flies. It doesn't half make a cracking noise when you connect with a fly.

[lou]

Yes!! Weve had loads lately which is unusal. I dont get flies..... they live a short space of time and dont really serve a purpose so why do they all fight eachother all the time?

What can a fly possibly have to fight about?! Theres no lack of food or fly-women for them & its its territorial then they can feck off coz its MY HOUSE!!!!

[Wycombe Fox]

I look on the bright side with flies, these bad boys provide hours of entertainment as you pretend you're Rafa Nadal. Only killing flies. It doesn't half make a cracking noise when you connect with a fly.

A friend had one of those. Hours of entertainment!

I especially liked the 'Questions' on the Maplins page - "Does this work on bats?"

[MikeyT]

Yep getting a few here as well, amd bloody moths as well, they actually do my head in more than flies. Grrr

[Bellend Sebastian]

What I don't understand is, if flies are so highly evolved that they can detect the air movement when you try to swat them and take evasive action accordingly, how come the daft bastards haven't learned to fly back out of the open window they flew in through, and instead just fly around in circles for days on end until they just die?

[Zingari]

there's some big black fookers flying around my garden as big as fookin crows !!

oh. actually i've just had another look and they are crows

[BoneDog]

What I don't understand is, if flies are so highly evolved that they can detect the air movement when you try to swat them and take evasive action accordingly, how come the daft bastards haven't learned to fly back out of the open window they flew in through, and instead just fly around in circles for days on end until they just die?

They have not evolved, they were designed that way and have always been the same.

“There is, however, no fossil evidence bearing on the question of insect origin; the oldest insects known show no transition to other arthropods.” Frank M. Carpenter, 'Fossil Insects'.

“And we find many of them [Cambrian fossils] already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear." Dawkins quote from 'The Blind Watchmaker'

[Zingari]

what came first , horses or horseflies ?

if it's horseflies , what did they do til horses came along ?

and if it's horses , then horseflies must have evolved from other flies

[Narborough_fox]

I've had about 5 wasps in my room recently.

[The Doctor]

What I don't understand is, if flies are so highly evolved that they can detect the air movement when you try to swat them and take evasive action accordingly, how come the daft bastards haven't learned to fly back out of the open window they flew in through, and instead just fly around in circles for days on end until they just die?

i don't think they can since i've managed to punch one flying around straight in its face and kick another one when it was flying away.

They're stupid little buggers so to remove them from my room i just use a storage pot with a lid, capture the fly, take it outside, open the box, turn the box upside down and the fly drops out.;

[BoneDog]

This little fella looks happy. Love his little stubble.

[rico]

loads of Brundlefly about this time of year!

[croftfox]

use citronella oil to keep flies and insects away. it really does work.