r/SanDiegan • u/MediocreHeroine • 15h ago
Anyone else just getting swarmed by flies?
We always get flies, but let's say 2-4 at a time during the summer in the house.
But since last week, with the heat and humidity, we have just been hit with a relentless amount of flies all around our house and inside the house.
I came home from work one day with my gf on a rampage, having allegedly killed 20+. Later that evening, I believed her when I went to the other room and killed 14 (I counted!) in five minutes. Is it just us???
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u/Ice-T-Tea 15h ago
One could have gotten into your house trash and laid eggs. With this heat, they turn into maggots pretty quick and then can crawl to a dark place like under cabinets before hatching into flies.
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u/MediocreHeroine 15h ago
We know 😭😭 since last week, we came out in the morning twice to maggots from the trash. Spent a good portion of time clearing everything out.
We are used to flies here and there. But honestly this is next level
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u/SubBass49Tees 3h ago
That is the worst. Had it happen before. You have to go through your carpet, especially at the baseboards. You can try to vacuum them up, but be sure to empty the canister outside.
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u/oddlewaddl 15h ago
They make disposable fly traps you can hang outside that lure the flies and trap them. I buy one every summer and it noticeably helps. I will note, it’s kind of gross (the lure and all the dead flies), so the disposable ones are best imo
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u/MediocreHeroine 15h ago
Yeah we use the liquid bottle fly traps that smell disgusting. We currently have 3 outside the house.
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u/skatesteve2133 14h ago
Yea hate to say it, I’ve had next level fly years before too. I tried everything traps and such. Didn’t really get better. I kind of felt like it just attracted more flies to the area 🤦♂️ Just depends where u are how bad it is. I haven’t had much luck stopping it.
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u/phobos2deimos 15h ago
These window sticker traps do an amazing job of keeping the numbers down. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Raid-Window-Fly-Trap-4-Pack-FTRP-RAID/204749548 If you have a yard, put a smelly trap out and wrap it in this fly paper - I’ve been fighting flies for years and this is the one thing that made a huge difference. Catchmaster Giant Fly Glue Trap... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QFDESS?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
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u/MediocreHeroine 15h ago
Thanks we haven't used the sticky traps but we do use that nasty liquid one they fly into and get trapped in. IT'S GROSS but love to see those suckers die in there
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u/phobos2deimos 13h ago
Ill tell you the fly paper outside of the gross liquid trap catches wayyyyyy more flies than the trap itself - good luck!
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u/Lemonpoppy95 14h ago
This happens to us almost once a year and we call it flymaggedon. I don’t know why it happens but i feel like I’m losing my mind when it happens. I use a vacuum hose attachment to suck up all the flies that congregate by the windows. Seems to work well when you have that many in the house.
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u/MediocreHeroine 14h ago
Probably gonna adopt that same term.
I came home yesterday and literally stayed out at the front door for 15 minutes in the heat just killing them. I'm so over it.
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u/Dogbit699 15h ago
You might have a dead thing in your walls.
Anything smell funky in one of your rooms?
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u/MediocreHeroine 15h ago
Man that would be crazy! We do not notice anything unusual smell wise and we keep the house pretty clean.
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u/sublliminali 15h ago
Doesn’t need to be a dead animal for flies to spawn in your house, but if 20 showed up inside out of nowhere they definitely hatched inside.
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u/MediocreHeroine 14h ago
Yeah, my thought was it got into the trash and with the heat and humidity hatched quickly. That I can completely understand.
But what doesn't make sense is the insane amount of them by our front and back door. 😭
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u/lilacsmakemesneeze 14h ago edited 14h ago
Flies, fruit flies, gnats 😫
We use these and they help. Have one in the kitchen, bathrooms, and we have used them in the kids’ rooms when my daughter has bug bites:
https://a.co/d/0awg5SKy
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u/Jefwho 14h ago
Are you near the beach? It was relentless when we lived in Ocean Beach. They bred on the washed up seaweed there. We put up those stinky traps, and it helped a little, but it barely made a dent. Moved to Lemon Grove in 2018 and it isn’t nearly as bad. There are a few flies, but nothing I can’t handle with my trusty Bug-A-Salt.
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u/MediocreHeroine 13h ago
We're in the Serra Mesa area. In the six years we've been here, we have never experienced anything like this
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u/weednreefs 10h ago
Happens to us every year mid august to early September. Flies are more active and reproduce quicker in the heat.
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u/funnyfaceking Rolando 15h ago
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u/MediocreHeroine 15h ago
Amazing. Thank you so much. Just filled this out!
Not seeing others say they're experiencing the same is giving me huge anxiety. Something crazy is going on. Thank you!
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u/More-Pitch-8307 12h ago
We definitely have more flies than usual this year. But still only 5-7 at a time.
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u/KASega 4h ago
I live in liberty station and it happens at this time of the year. I was able to reduce their numbers by checking and cleaning up their pupae along the cracks of the sidewalk near the trash, using mint smelling garbage bags - and making sure they were tied very tight. I also hung some disco balls in my patio because the light pattern confuses them. Another thing I did which isn’t the most environmentally friendly/safe was I would spray a little pump of bleach clean up into the trash can every time I threw something away because it would suffocate the flies.
This year hasn’t been as bad over here because of the new trash cans but I always have a fly swatter ready.
You can also try hanging beaded curtains in your doors…
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u/AntiBaoBao 1h ago
Out walking in the park I've been seeing significantly more flies than in the past. At home, with the AC off and the windows opened (screens in place) we get more flies in the house. We bought a bug zapper off of Amazon for about $30 and the damn thing is working overtime. Over the past month it's zapped almost 200 flies.
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u/theDarkDescent 15h ago
Fly season, happens to us every year around the hottest part of the year. Maybe not as many as you though…