Cluster flies are a bit darker and have dark and light chequered pattern on their abdomen which house flies or bottle flies do not have.
Why do i have flies in my attic.
As you sit in the window and bask in the sun you notice an annoying buzzing sound.
The only successful method i ve found for them is vacuuming.
Apply insecticide to the outside of your attic to prevent flies from coming in.
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.
Cluster or attic flies are the genus pollenia in the blowfly family calliphoridae.
Remember the problem.
We cleaned out the attic of thousands in january by vacuuming.
If you are wondering where all the flies are coming from in the dead of winter no less the answer is simple.
I have a serious fly problem right now.
We seem to have an issue with cluster flies in our kitchen.
And look more dead flies on the sill.
As scavengers flies are attracted to and feed on dead things like birds mice and rats.
Preventing attic flies is a job for the summer and fall.
Why are there flies in my house all of a sudden.
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.
Every year between october and february she has swarms of flies in her attic.
Spray as best you can around your roof chimney eves ventilation holes etc.
My attic is full of them.
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.
You have a cluster fly infestation.
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.
Insecticides can be used on the outside of the house in mid september if you have a persistent problem with attic flies.
Sarahgen april 4 2013.
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.
I don t have flies right now but i have clusters of asian lady beetles.
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.
Cluster flies have short yellow or golden coloured hairs on their thorax.
I don t know how they managed to get in there but they did.
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.
Do this in the summer or early fall at the latest.
Always remove deceased animals from your home and property immediately to prevent flies from invading.
My mum has this problem.
