Why Do I Have Flies In My Attic

Every year between october and february she has swarms of flies in her attic.

Why do i have flies in my attic. If you are wondering where all the flies are coming from in the dead of winter no less the answer is simple. 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. 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. 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.

Apply insecticide to the outside of your attic to prevent flies from coming in. Why are there flies in my house all of a sudden. Cluster flies 8 10 mm are larger in size than a house fly 6 7 mm but smaller than a bottle fly 10 14 mm. Remember the problem.

We cleaned out the attic of thousands in january by vacuuming. My attic is full of them. You have a cluster fly infestation. Spray as best you can around your roof chimney eves ventilation holes etc.

Sarahgen april 4 2013. I don t have flies right now but i have clusters of asian lady beetles. The only successful method i ve found for them is vacuuming. 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.

As you sit in the window and bask in the sun you notice an annoying buzzing sound. Preventing attic flies is a job for the summer and fall. My mum has this problem. I don t know how they managed to get in there but they did.

Are those flies bouncing off my sunny window pane. Insecticides can be used on the outside of the house in mid september if you have a persistent problem with attic flies. 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. Do this in the summer or early fall at the latest.

As much as possible seal cracks and openings around the outside of the house especially under the eaves as you would for energy conservation. And look more dead flies on the sill. Always remove deceased animals from your home and property immediately to prevent flies from invading. Cluster or attic flies are the genus pollenia in the blowfly family calliphoridae.

I have a serious fly problem right now. We seem to have an issue with cluster flies in our kitchen. 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. Remember attic flies want to cluster indoors when it starts to get a lot cooler outdoors.