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Posted: June 13 2007 at 7:10am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Silly question, but perhaps some advice?

All of sudden, we have flies in our house. We don't keep doors open, we don't live on a farm, we don't have animals. I'm killing about 7 in the morning and more at night (I'm not at home this week). They seem to be coming from somewhere inside? It's not a huge swarm or invasion, but golly, it's annoying.

Any hints on how to play detective to find the source?

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 9:17am | IP Logged Quote Carole N.
I would love to know about this as well. We seem to have a bout of flies in our house. Joe's solution is to hang up a fly paper strip ... but it is so ugly. Any ideas?

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 3:41pm | IP Logged Quote hylabrook1
Jenn -

Are the flies clustering anywhere? I hate to mention this, but one time we had lots of flies clustering in one of the bedrooms. It happened to be the room that had the trap door to the attic. Well, we opened the trap door and found several dead squirrels in the attic.

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 6:14pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I've heard that sometimes plumbing is the issue, that flies can breed in the stagnant water in the traps. I think the remedy is to pour bleach down the tub and sinks and let it set for awhile before rinsing it down, but I'm not sure.

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 6:25pm | IP Logged Quote sewcrazy
We put fly strips up just at night. I hang them over my kitchen sink and leave the over the counter light on. The light attracts them and they get stuck. There are often a dozen of so stuck wach morning.

I have kids that can't seem to quite close doors, so we usually have a few buzzing around
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Posted: June 13 2007 at 7:24pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Haven't found the swarming, but that's what I think, that something hatched inside. I'll check drain pipes and such. That gives me some ideas.

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Posted: June 14 2007 at 6:45am | IP Logged Quote Cheryl
Once when I lived in an apartment, I had a fly problem. An exterminator came to get rid of them. He found them coming from a place near the pipes under the kitchen sink.

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