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Is anyone else having a "Plague" of tiny flies?
18 July 2012 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 07/18/2012 3:09:40 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

If so what did you do to rid yourself of them?


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They are DRIVING my family NUTS!
1 posted on 07/18/2012 3:09:53 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

I’ll probably just vote Republican, but that means we’ll all have to put up with them for 6 more months.


2 posted on 07/18/2012 3:11:08 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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Have you tried a bath/shower?

:-)

3 posted on 07/18/2012 3:11:57 PM PDT by theDentist (FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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I’ve seen some here too lately. Very small, almost gnat sized. Hard to kill except with a spray. I think it is a holdover from the warm winter. I have a bug zapper, but they’re too small for it.


4 posted on 07/18/2012 3:12:24 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Oh it’s just a beginning !


5 posted on 07/18/2012 3:12:40 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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Yourself of them? Or your yard.. Sounds like fruit flies to me. Do you have rotten fruit in your kitchen or your yard? Look around!


6 posted on 07/18/2012 3:12:49 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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Asked my Mother in Law to go out to the porch...


7 posted on 07/18/2012 3:12:49 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 85+% of the black vote)
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To: US Navy Vet

Just joking BTW — I love my MIL and she loves me too. :)


8 posted on 07/18/2012 3:13:33 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 85+% of the black vote)
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Nope,just a bad gnat year here...and hot, and dry.


9 posted on 07/18/2012 3:15:17 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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I think the second plague is frogs....

That should take care of the flys....

Ok, seriously, they’re here in Colorado too.
Indoor plants seem to be the attraction, but they are new this year.

I just swat and smash.


10 posted on 07/18/2012 3:15:27 PM PDT by G Larry (I'm under no obligation to be a passive victim!)
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As a matter of fact, yes. I leave a dim lamp on in my room and I go in often and see them hanging out in the spot of light on the wall. You have to sneak up on them to smash them, as they leap away like a tick. I have no idea how they get in.

I had them last year and only seemed to get rid of them by spraying flying bug spray in the vents and window seals outside my house. It might have just coincided with the end of their season, as spraying the same areas haven’t stopped them this year. There do seen to be fewer, so I guess I’ll keep it up.


11 posted on 07/18/2012 3:16:17 PM PDT by Rastus
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WRITER’S BLOCK!

I can’t think of anything funny to write about this.

I’m slipping.


12 posted on 07/18/2012 3:17:17 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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It's usually a function of temperature and humidity. They go away.

13 posted on 07/18/2012 3:18:00 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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Open your doors and windows. Boil a combo of vinegar and water, they will leave pronto.


14 posted on 07/18/2012 3:18:04 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
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I had a problem with tiny flys but then I
stopped washing in hot water, now there’s no problem.


15 posted on 07/18/2012 3:19:28 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I haven’t had any until now, just saw one on my computer screen...


16 posted on 07/18/2012 3:22:29 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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17 posted on 07/18/2012 3:23:29 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Gaffer
I have a bug zapper, but they’re too small for it.

Ahh, just get a smaller bug zapper. ;-)

18 posted on 07/18/2012 3:23:58 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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19 posted on 07/18/2012 3:24:46 PM PDT by Ken H
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Ya’ll must be from the Mid West or East?


20 posted on 07/18/2012 3:25:39 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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