Try Agropharm Fortefog P mini fumers...they work. 52K posts 2 October 2016 at 6:57PM. Young, newly emerged cluster flies have short light-brown/yellowish hairs on their lower bodies. Do you live in a new build house? 5 to 15 feet off the ground. The constructor had called in a pest control company who had fumigated but the client experienced re-infestation within two weeks of the treatment. I got my last lot from Pest Control Direct Ltd...pestcontroldirect.co.uk We got these after the local council did a fumigation and their expert recommended them. 0. Once indoors, house flies can be found resting on walls, floors or ceilings. G_M PPR Forumite. At night them they prefer to rest near food sources approx. Overlapped wings. We had cluster flies in our attic in our last house. The larvae of House Flies can take 3 – 60 days to mature. Outdoors they can be seen on plants, the ground, fences, compost heaps and rubbish bins. Often confused with the common house fly, cluster flies are roughly the same size. The cluster fly will fly around the home but at a less frantic pace than that of the house fly. We could see they were getting down from the loft via the extractor fan.
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The most obvious way to get rid of flies is to use a spray, a fly trap or a fly strip. A victory of townies over … We had the same problem (finding numerous dozy flies) in our ensuite bathroom and then other rooms. 2 October 2016 at 6:57PM. Graham . Check your loft as you may have cluster flies. We recently took a call from a client asking for advice on a plaster beetle infestation in a new build property. 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. 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. There is also the option of using a fly swatter if you can be bothered to squish every fly you get in your home. A cluster fly is a bit larger than a house fly and has a black/silvery-black checkered body. Sluggish movement. Some characteristics that differentiate the cluster fly: they fly somewhat more slowly than the house fly, they almost always fly toward windows on the warm side of a structure and their wings overlap almost completely, when at rest.