A dead mouse lurking in the attic or trapped in the walls might like no big deal but the smell of decomposing animals is irresistible to flies.
Why do i have flies in my attic.
Cluster or attic flies are the genus pollenia in the blowfly family calliphoridae.
Every year between october and february she has swarms of flies in her attic.
As much as possible seal cracks and openings around the outside of the house especially under the eaves as you would for energy conservation.
Sarahgen april 4 2013.
Preventing attic flies is a job for the summer and fall.
Always remove deceased animals from your home and property immediately to prevent flies from invading.
My attic is full of them.
Apply insecticide to the outside of your attic to prevent flies from coming in.
Spray as best you can around your roof chimney eves ventilation holes etc.
Cluster flies are a bit darker and have dark and light chequered pattern on their abdomen which house flies or bottle flies do not have.
As scavengers flies are attracted to and feed on dead things like birds mice and rats.
As you sit in the window and bask in the sun you notice an annoying buzzing sound.
My mum has this problem.
You have a cluster fly infestation.
Unlike more familiar blow flies such as the bluebottle genus phormia they do not present a health hazard because they do not lay eggs in human food.
Cluster flies have short yellow or golden coloured hairs on their thorax.
These are not the same as the blue bottles that buzz hard against the windows in the warmer weather or the house flies and smaller flies that are active in summer too.
Insecticides can be used on the outside of the house in mid september if you have a persistent problem with attic flies.
Remember the problem.
Are those flies bouncing off my sunny window pane.
If you are wondering where all the flies are coming from in the dead of winter no less the answer is simple.
We seem to have an issue with cluster flies in our kitchen.
I don t know how they managed to get in there but they did.
And look more dead flies on the sill.
Having read that they seek to hibernate in the house early autumn i m at a loss to understand why they are coming in early july.
We cleaned out the attic of thousands in january by vacuuming.
Flies that gather in roofs around windows and on walls inside in the autumn and winter are called cluster flies also known as attic flies.
The only successful method i ve found for them is vacuuming.
I have a serious fly problem right now.
Why are there flies in my house all of a sudden.
But i m really sorry to say it s been happening since i lived at home since 1993 so 15 years and they ve still not got to the bottom of it.
Do this in the summer or early fall at the latest.
