BLUEBOTTLES.

CavanCrew

So the flat is FULL of them in the kitchen/living area, now they have inhabited one of the bedrooms on the same side, the other side of the flat is unaffected.

What is causing them? the place is clean, and the bins have been brought out. The flat above has been making suspicious noises.. and I heard a saw and drill being used the week before... should I be worried? I have these horror movie images of a rotting corpse in my head. Or could they be down to a change in weather? (IDK) AHHHHHHHHH.

BBDBB

dead body under the floorboards

Sindri

I don't know but you should crawl into your wardrobe and see what happens.

Nodin

CavanCrew wrote: »

So the flat is FULL of them in the kitchen/living area, now they have inhabited one of the bedrooms on the same side, the other side of the flat is unaffected.

What is causing them? the place is clean, and the bins have been brought out. The flat above has been making suspicious noises.. and I heard a saw and drill being used the week before... should I be worried? I have these horror movie images of a rotting corpse in my head. Or could they be down to a change in weather? (IDK) AHHHHHHHHH.

The Lord Of Decay Wants Your Flesh....

grindle

Clean underneath your foreskin.

Jammy Donut

Smella Gee.

Smidge

Reckon while someone was cooking a bit of raw meat went astray. It would only need to be a tiny piece for the "plague" to arrive. Look behind EVERY surface for the offending bit of meat.

CavanCrew

grindle wrote: »

Clean underneath your foreskin.

I dont have such genitalia but thanks for the heads..up

grindle

CavanCrew wrote: »

I dont have such genitalia but thanks for the heads..up

Then roll your flaps back and douse in Domestos.
*cap-doff*

Sparks43

CavanCrew wrote: »

So the flat is FULL of them in the kitchen/living area, now they have inhabited one of the bedrooms on the same side, the other side of the flat is unaffected.

What is causing them? the place is clean, and the bins have been brought out. The flat above has been making suspicious noises.. and I heard a saw and drill being used the week before... should I be worried? I have these horror movie images of a rotting corpse in my head. Or could they be down to a change in weather? (IDK) AHHHHHHHHH.

Stop being a stingy Cavan ****e and buy fly spray

Problem solved:rolleyes:

CavanCrew

Sparks43 wrote: »

Stop being a stingy Cavan ****e and buy fly spray

Problem solved:rolleyes:

Yeah I was spraying them with oven cleaner, it seemed to do the job.

El Guapo!

Get chopsticks and go all Mr. Miyagi on them.

superstoner90

Aw, the blue bottle fly, my favorit crustation.

delw

CavanCrew wrote: »

Yeah I was spraying them with oven cleaner, it seemed to do the job.

Maybe you should use the oven cleaner to clean the oven in the first place :P

micropig

You have lots of little white maggots somewhere in you house

AskJives

CavanCrew wrote: »

So the flat is FULL of them in the kitchen/living area, now they have inhabited one of the bedrooms on the same side, the other side of the flat is unaffected.

What is causing them? the place is clean, and the bins have been brought out. The flat above has been making suspicious noises.. and I heard a saw and drill being used the week before... should I be worried? I have these horror movie images of a rotting corpse in my head. Or could they be down to a change in weather? (IDK) AHHHHHHHHH.

Money is on you have a dead rat behind the walls. Bluebottle flys are attracted to decaying flesh.

Not to feak you out but they lay their eggs inside the carcus. The idea being when their off-spring hatches they have "food" - quite freaky. You got to find what they are feeding on and remove it. Otherwise it'll take a good while for them to move on.

Owen_S

Bluebottles: Hairy Japanese bastards

patwicklow

I agree with last post has to be a dead rat or rats some were under the floor boards.

CavanCrew

AskJives wrote: »

Money is on you have a dead rat behind the walls. Bluebottle flys are attracted to decaying flesh.

Not to feak you out but they lay their eggs inside the carcus. The idea being when their off-spring hatches they have "food" - quite freaky. You got to find what they are feeding on and remove it. Otherwise it'll take a good while for them to move on.

This has actually scared me, Im afraid you are right.. because its only on one side of the flat. the other side they dont go near... but i think the ceiling is cement... who do you contact? the management of the flat block?

AskJives

CavanCrew wrote: »

This has actually scared me, Im afraid you are right.. because its only on one side of the flat. the other side they dont go near... but i think the ceiling is cement... who do you contact? the management of the flat block?

First thing you should do is to try and find the rat yourself.
If you remove it, disinfect the area and leave the windows open. The blue bottles will go. Easiest and quickest solution. Nothing wrong with using bug spray on them too. But the first part will surfice.

Remember, blue bottles like to keep close to what attracted them there in the first place. So if you see a concentration of them, for example, around the cooker more so than other areas ... All signs point to that there is something dead under the cooker or worse inside that wall.

So first things first, look for that concentration and pull out what ever is in front of it and see if you can find anything.

Chuck Stone

Beautiful creatures.

CavanCrew

AskJives wrote: »

First thing you should do is to try and find the rat yourself.
If you remove it, disinfect the area and leave the windows open. The blue bottles will go. Easiest and quickest solution. Nothing wrong with using bug spray on them too. But the first part will surfice.
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Omg this is so gross, i cant sleeeep.

I am NOT going to try find a RAT myself?? im scared of mice and hamsters and RATS, i would rather carry a spider. il have a look and see, but i am actually terrified. If you would like to volunteer, il let u keep whatever is found.
Il check the cooker, there are no floorboards its concrete.. and i closed off all the windows to stop anymore of them coming in because i thought they were coming from the flat above... Naive. Im pretty sure its the flat above.. like there is nothing here...

whitesands

CavanCrew wrote: »

Omg this is so gross, i cant sleeeep.

Don't worry, it might not be a dead rat, it's probably bedbugs feeding on a dead mouse in your mattress, with a bit of luck the mouse carcass will keep the bedbugs busy & your allright for a few days...

policarp

Copy of the Mail and use as a fly swat.

AskJives

CavanCrew wrote: »

Omg this is so gross, i cant sleeeep.

I am NOT going to try find a RAT myself?? im scared of mice and hamsters and RATS, i would rather carry a spider. il have a look and see, but i am actually terrified. If you would like to volunteer, il let u keep whatever is found.

Deal. I'll sell the rat on ebay afterwards :pac:

CavanCrew wrote: »

Il check the cooker, there are no floorboards its concrete.. and i closed off all the windows to stop anymore of them coming in because i thought they were coming from the flat above... Naive. Im pretty sure its the flat above.. like there is nothing here...

But to be serious, it sounds awkward now.
Getting rid of something dead that you can see and remove, whilst maybe not the most pleasant of things, can at least be sorted without much hassle.

But... as you say. Its either in the walls or coming from something in the flat above you (this is why i hate the aspect of living in flats. People always run the risk of having a potential dirt bird living beside you. But thats a different topic)

If I were you I would knock around to the flat above you. Ask them if they are getting blue bottle flies too. They say yes? Tell them to look around for a dead rat. They say no? ... Still ask them to look around. But it means its probably behind your wall. In which you'd have to take the skirting board off. Maybe even a bit of the plaster board.

Don't remove the rat/mouse/old ham sandwich from behind the wall - it's a protected ecosystem now.

Name the bluebottles. Something wholesome. Then they'll just seem like old friends.

Have you seen the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly? It'll be just like that.

Nothingbetter2d

buy a pet lizard.... it will munch away on the bluebottles

a friend got a lizard (like chub chub from the simpsons) an iguana i think its called. he hasnt seen a bluebottle last more than a day in his house since he got it

Cee-Jay-Cee

Its because your place is clean, they like clean places. You should throw your rubbish around the house, stop cleaning and vacuuming and never clear out the fridge.

phasers

If you leave some raw meat out around the place it will get rid of them, they're militant vegetarians.

DominoDub

Wow thats very strange ..I was pulling the blinds in my Apartment this morning and noticed loads of Bluebottle Flys in my nextdoor neighbours window.

Run_to_da_hills

Bu a couple of tarantulas from a pet shop and let them loose around the house.

holystungun9

Based on recent findings (this morning - AH), there must be a hairy gee in the vicinity.


Today's episode was brought to you by the word 'Bottle', and the colour 'Blue'.

And also 'hairy gee'.

JohnMarston

CavanCrew wrote: »

So the flat is FULL of them in the kitchen/living area, now they have inhabited one of the bedrooms on the same side, the other side of the flat is unaffected.

What is causing them? the place is clean, and the bins have been brought out. The flat above has been making suspicious noises.. and I heard a saw and drill being used the week before... should I be worried? I have these horror movie images of a rotting corpse in my head. Or could they be down to a change in weather? (IDK) AHHHHHHHHH.

Weird i had the exact same problem for the last few days in my place. Turns out they were coming in through a vent in the bathroom. Sealed the vent with tape for the time being.

MayoForSam

Could be a crop of cluster flies instead of bluebottles, they like to hibernate together in your attic over the winter (bad news if you're an earthworm though).

Of course, it could be a lot worse if your home was infested with the human botfly, likes to lay it's eggs on you, then the larva burrows in and feeds away before crawling out in a few weeks as a pupa. Tough luck if they manage to get in around your eyeball or scrotum apparently.

CavanCrew

Yeah as it stands now, there are about 4-5 of them, the rest were swatted. so it was defoooo coming from somewhere else, I suspect some mank neighbour, who knows their neighbours these days anyways?

THANKS FOR ALL SCARING ME. Dead body/rat/bedbugs feeding on my body/nesting in my skin/hairygee/scrotum/buy tarantulas.

CavanCrew

JohnMarston wrote: »

Weird i had the exact same problem for the last few days in my place. Turns out they were coming in through a vent in the bathroom. Sealed the vent with tape for the time being.

Yeah we sealed the vents on our windows.. seems to have helped !