Rogue Fly

[ferlew]

Been buzzing in here all night, keeps getting near me ears. Too early for flies, surely?

[tonyav]

A quick smack with the rolled up news paper will cure that problem, ferlew.

[SpikeyBush]

I use those fly papers you suspend from the lightshade, Aeroxon is the manufacturer or brand name. Within minutes the little buzzy swine will be stuck to it. Had three in the kitchen the other day, put one of these up and all of them were trapped by the time the kettle boiled.

[SpikeyBush]

My first memory Headwreck of when I first arrived in Ireland, every house on every townland had one on every ceiling. I swear by them because they work.

[Stargazer]

When I am reading late at night in bed suddenly IK hear a buzzz from somewhere so I stop reading and listen to see where it is coming from. It stops. I pick up the book again and just start reading and hear it again. This gooes on for ages and the bugger never seems to come into view until I feel it buzsz against my ear and bounce on the pillow. It would be funny to watch ther ensuing battle with whatever is at hand. In the end I get the fly spray and nearly pass out myself.

[Stargazer]

These particular "sleepy buzzy" flies hole up for the winter in crevices often in the loft by the warm boiler chimney breast. Then they creep out somehow via the loft hatch and buzzy sleepily around the bedside lamp when I am reading. On the window sill of the room where the loft hat is situated I have a proper sticky fly catcher and it is full of the buggers.

[Old_Geezer]

I've been less bothered with flies since I bough a decent UV killer. Sad to realise the tubes don't last as many hours as I'd assumed though. When one went the other would not continue without it and I discovered they aren't expected to last the year long :-( So I'd been lucky it lasted not unlucky it had gone already.

[shoota]

They last longer if you don't turn them on OG......

[Stargazer]

These flies are called cluster flies - look it up on google (flies that hibernate over winter)

[jomifl]

Cluster flies allegedly once caused a train crash because so many of them were hibernating in a red signal light that the lamp was obscured.

[ferlew]

Most interesting, thank you.
OH has one of those tennis rackett things that zap the flies, but the dogs go potty if he gets it down to use.

[Stargazer]

Flies still attracting abers then?

[viv38]

Stargazer 23:20 Friday. I laughed so much at that, I could have written it myself. Happens to me all the time !

[Stargazer]

When I describe this fiasco to my children and go into exaggerated acting mode I have them in fits. It is the bump bump buzz on my pillow right next to my ear that gets to me. In the end far from being made sleepy by reading (usually in the early hours anyway) I am thoroughly wide awake and furious by the time the blighter has been dispatched. (should that be despatched?)

[viv38]

It's like they know they're messing with our heads! You should hear my language as I try to squirt the blighters and then like you say, the smell of the fly spray nearly half kills me (lol).