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Can anyone help me to identify what type of fly has been invading me this afternoon/evening. They aren't houseflies, nor bluebottles. Definitely not flying ants. I have no idea how they're getting in either. As soon as I swat 5 of them another 10 appear from nowhere!


They don't fly around the room they just stay on the windows. My house is always clean and tidy, even more so since the pandemic, so I know they haven't been encouraged in. I just can't fathom them out.


Also, even though I've closed all the windows they are still appearing. Help!

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shen Wrote:

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> Could there possibly be a dead rodent under the

> floorboards somewhere? Horrible thought but a

> likely cause.



No, downstairs I don't have floorboards, it's concrete. The weird thing is, I decided to stop swatting them to see how many appeared. Although the flies are freaking me out, they seem to die off quickly of their own accord. How weird. Never known anything like it. Guess who won't sleep tonight!!

I think we had these last year. Very annoying, clustered round the lights when they were on. They were around for about a week and then mysteriously disappeared. We also looked them up and thought they must be cluster flies. Definitely not fruit flies (which we also occasionally get if an apple is left out too long) -these were bigger and flew faster than fruit flies. Good luck!

JohnL Wrote:

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> Here's a website all about flies

>

> https://www.fliesonly.com/cluster-flies-informatio

> n-images-get-rid-of-cluster-flies/

>

> I chase even one around with fly killer (and I

> know that's bad but I can't put up with them).



Thank you. They're back again. Grrr

Sue Wrote:

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> There have been threads about this on here in past

> years.

>

> I'm sure they will be cluster flies.

>

> Someone on here identified them for me when I had

> them in my house (haven't had them since, thank

> goodness!)


I'd never heard of them before Sue. Not very nice as there are so many of them. Hoping the cluster fly spray that I've ordered from Amazon will sort them out.

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