Flying Insects, Where are They?

Mike

Mike

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There have been very few flies around where I live, this year, I have
seen one medium sized fly and several tiny fruit flies, other than those,
a few small moths in the evenings.

No Butterflies in the gardens either, this is strange.

I don't know if it is a local thing, or other areas are finding the same.

Mike.
 

Mike said:
There have been very few flies around where I live, this year, I have
seen one medium sized fly and several tiny fruit flies, other than those,
a few small moths in the evenings.

No Butterflies in the gardens either, this is strange.

I don't know if it is a local thing, or other areas are finding the same.

Mike.
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I'm chasing flies around the house daily. Yes, there have been some fruit flies too. I haven't noticed any butterflies lately.
 
We don’t allow bugs into the house. If you live in farming country, flies are more prevalent and you can guess why. My wife hates spiders, but I like them, so if I see one where I think a bird may get it, I move it to a safe location. My wife tells me I’m crazy, but so what. Just because she says I am doesn’t make it so, does it?
 
Mike said:
There have been very few flies around where I live, this year, I have
seen one medium sized fly and several tiny fruit flies, other than those,
a few small moths in the evenings.

No Butterflies in the gardens either, this is strange.

I don't know if it is a local thing, or other areas are finding the same.

Mike.
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well no shortage of flies round here but they don't get in my house.. I have a fly detector trap that hangs in the garden. By the time it's been there a week or 2 it's half full of dead flies and wasps....could be one of your neighbours has got the same as me...

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Plenty butterflies here in the garden..

ETA... also spiders are really prolific this year... so they're probably having a feast on the flies
 
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oldman said:
We don’t allow bugs into the house. If you live in farming country, flies are more prevalent and you can guess why. My wife hates spiders, but I like them, so if I see one where I think a bird may get it, I move it to a safe location. My wife tells me I’m crazy, but so what. Just because she says I am doesn’t make it so, does it?
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All things that normally live outside, I carry them back out when I see them in the house. Michelle would prefer I whack 'em, but she never fails to yell for me when she spots one.
 
Murrmurr said:
All things that normally live outside, I carry them back out when I see them in the house. Michelle would prefer I whack 'em, but she never fails to yell for me when she spots one.
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We had a black snake in the rose bushes on Sunday. My wife tells me to get a hoe and come out to the bushes. I asked her why. She said there was a snake in the bushes. I went out and looked and saw that it was just a black snake, so I grabbed it by the tail, put it in a bucket with the lid on and drove out to the woods and told it don’t come back and it said, “OK.”
 
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oldman said:
We had a black snake in the rose bushes on Sunday. My wife tells me to get a hoe and come out to the bushes. I asked her why. She said there was a snake in the bushes. I went out and looked and saw that it was just a black snake, so I grabbed by the tail, put it in a bucket with the lid on and drove out to the woods and told it don’t come back and it said, “OK.”
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We'd occasionally get bats inside when we lived up in the mountains. My sister stayed a weekend with us once....once. Somehow a bat got in the room she slept in, and she totally freaked out. The poor thing had just parked itself near the window until my sister started shrieking. Impossible to get a hold of it then. I usually could just put on some leather gloves and pick them up by their feet or cup my hands over them, but I had to chase it out the front door with a broom. :(
 
Murrmurr said:
We'd occasionally get bats inside when we lived up in the mountains. My sister stayed a weekend with us once....once. Somehow a bat got in the room she slept in, and she totally freaked out. The poor thing had just parked itself near the window until my sister started shrieking. Impossible to get a hold of it then. I usually could just put on some leather gloves and pick them up by their feet or cup my hands over them, but I had to chase it out the front door with a broom. :(
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The only issue with bats are disease, including they are prone to becoming rabid.
 
oldman said:
We had a black snake in the rose bushes on Sunday. My wife tells me to get a hoe and come out to the bushes. I asked her why. She said there was a snake in the bushes. I went out and looked and saw that it was just a black snake, so I grabbed by the tail, put it in a bucket with the lid on and drove out to the woods and told it don’t come back and it said, “OK.”
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I haven't seen any snakes lately, thankfully.
 
Mike said:
There have been very few flies around where I live, this year, I have
seen one medium sized fly and several tiny fruit flies, other than those,
a few small moths in the evenings.

No Butterflies in the gardens either, this is strange.

I don't know if it is a local thing, or other areas are finding the same.

Mike.
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They are all at my place.
 
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