I am a little freaked out about the number of HUGE flies in my kitchen. I guess that the revolting smell emanating from under the floorboards for a week or so was indeed a victim of one of my cats that slunk into a small corner and died. The smell has gone and now the flies have appeared. My evil spray has caused these huge blue bottles to well, literally “drop like flies”. But now what will happen? Do I need to get somebody in to investigate? Or do the flies all emerge in one go or do they take an age to go away? Will they lay more eggs all over the place and start again?
Thankfully I’m pretty sure that flies are not in the habit of returning, like salmon or penguins to their place of birth to multiply. But still. I don’t like the idea of a skeleton somewhere deep in the bowels of my house and want to know what I have to do next.
Any fly experts out there?
September 17th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Give it a few more days, that's what I always do. If you've killed them all, that should probably do it.
Coincidentally, we seem to have an abundance of spider webs at the moment. One even formed on the little guy's toothbrush overnight, in a room where there's no window. Perhaps the spider came up the plug?
September 17th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Ewwww! I'd definitely get someone to look under the floor if I was you!
Hope you resolve it soon.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
It might just be the time of year – we have quite a lot of flies around still (we're in the country so flies are a really bane out here)
I'd consider leaving it another couple of days and then getting someone in after the weekend if its still troubling you
September 17th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I live in North Queensland.
We ALWAYS have flies.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I can't believe you found a fly spray that works! I'm sure that when I spray our kitchen with fly spray they all get high on it and then carry on as normal. Have now resorted to fly swatters – but have bad aim!