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A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?

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Originally posted by Kewpie
A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?
Maybe they're labouring under the misapprehension that they're people.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?
Learn to love them.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?
Hmm.... difficult to diagnose from a distance, athough it sounds like a rare case of cross

breeding: sheep flies with troll genes. Contemporary street smarts suggest 'starve them'.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?
Get a transparent bag, fill it half with water, tie a knot and then
hang them from the roof with a normal string.

Hang 2 or 3 per room.

You're welcome.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
A variety of housefly that is small enough to get in through aircon ventilators. Our house is completely screened but we are having a plague of these little fellows inside and can't find their entry point. They're extremely friendly (I have about 30 of them hanging around me right now) and totally ignore the electronic zapper which kills off every other flying thing.

Anyone have any practical suggestions?
Smoke or burn incense. Bugs hate that. They think you're on fire and it freaks them out.

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Originally posted by Seitse
Get a transparent bag, fill it half with water, tie a knot and then
hang them from the roof with a normal string.

Hang 2 or 3 per room.

You're welcome.
Should the bag be open so the flies can get in and drown?

Since we're sort of on the subject, a ghetto roach trap is a glass bottle with a bit of vodka in it and the lip of the bottle smeared with Vaseline. The roaches are attracted to the sugar in the vodka, slip, fall in and die to alcohol poisoning.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Learn to love them.
This looks as if it may be the way to go. I found lots of info here: http://www.viacorp.com/flybook/fulltext.html

Even in there, I couldn't find a solution other than waiting the little beggars out!

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Smoke or burn incense. Bugs hate that. They think you're on fire and it freaks them out.
Dude, that is from the second hand pot smoke, it makes them bug out. 😕

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If a sheep flies i'm going to need a link to that video,

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Originally posted by tomtom232
If a sheep flies i'm going to need a link to that video,

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Should the bag be open so the flies can get in and drown?

Since we're sort of on the subject, a ghetto roach trap is a glass bottle with a bit of vodka in it and the lip of the bottle smeared with Vaseline. The roaches are attracted to the sugar in the vodka, slip, fall in and die to alcohol poisoning.
Have you noticed flies flying around when it is about to rain?

Old Mexican wisdom.