Small Flies In My Room
CommunistWithAGun
Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
First of all, the obvious. I had a plate from my dinner sitting on my desk for 3-4 days and suddenly now I've got like, 20 little black flies hanging around in my room. I thoughly cleaned my room and took out garbage yesterday (Removed the plate) but they are still here... If someone could tell me what they are and why I'd appreciate it... They are maybe 3 times larger than the period in this sentence.
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Anyone know what they are?
Get rid of all the food in your room, thoroughly clean and vacuum, then leave your window open for them to leave. If they don't leave after 2 hours with the window open, close the window, and get a bug zapper... Zap! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Throw out the food, open the windows and they'll be gone in a day <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
They're a bit like relatives: they appear the second you do something wrong. It's something that's beyond our comprehension. Just give it time, and keep your room as tidy as possible until they bog off.
They will be back.
I actually did that XD
Though you should get really some sort of bug zapper. Or vacuum them XD
EDIT : Or if you're teh l33t communist, you should get your sickle and cut off their wings, then smash em with a hammer.
Yes, only for teh l33ts XD
Er... What I meant was go out and buy a 6-pack of foggers. Once you use one of em for your room, you've got five more in case the sneaky bastards ever return. Or if you just want to toss one into the room of your enemy. Whatever.
That will only work if you don't fully cover it and they hop around.
Fruit covered completely in glue just smells like glue.
My killing method: Get a long neck bottle and put about a half inch of red/blush wine in the bottom. They're attracted by the smell, get stuck inside and then drown in the alcohol. Just like midgets and a circus.
Oh, leaving the room shortly after you do this would be a good idea.
Even if you can't find them, if you spray the whole room properly, they'll all be dead. And when you find the dead queen a few months later and think its a raisin and eat it, you will be unpleasantly suprised.
Especially funny on wasps (more than one) since sometimes they sting each other...
vacuum clean and then spray your walls with raid. that = fix.
We've got a ton of these things in work (kitchen, have to keep those lil mofos at bay). Most of the time it's just Zzzzzzz, dead fly, end of story. Not too long ago I heard the usual Zzzzzzz but it would not stop, I looked up and saw this poor fly was still getting shocked and it caught fire. I had to switch it off to stop the buzzing.
A half empty jam jar works well. They are lured to the jam and are they stuck by it.
General hygiene will keep them out of the way, but once they're in somewhere, they're in for a looong while. Sterilise your room and kill as many as you can, leave the door/window open and hopefully the little darlings will fly elsewhere.
I know a bar that had fruit flies and that went on for months because noone cleaned away the lemon/lime/orange slices properly at the end of the night.
If you keep ALL food sources out of their way then they'll either leave to find food, or spawn in smaller numbers until they're dead. So yeah, tidytidytidy and no food anywhere.
You fill a circus an inch full of wine and wait for midgets to come in and drown?
Vaccum the suckers up. Then take the vaccum bag and cover it in gasoline and burn it. Problem solved. My school had a similar problem to this during the winter. Swarms of huge black flies would gather by the windows, it was really nasty.
Thats the best option.