Muckle Oxters Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Onybody else haein budder we flies dis past twartree days? We’re plagued by da peerie lippers efter I had da windows tae da back we da fine day yesterday. And does onybody hae ony remedies for an infestation o dem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Traditional fly papers seem to be moderately successful, but fly sprays seem to be ineffective. Might as well try and hit them with the tin... I tend to wait until they settle(?) and whack them with a traditional rolled up newspaper. Only problem with this approach is that, although it's good excercise, the wife gets a little 'excited' by the mess I leave on walls and the rather coarse expressions of jubilation when I get one.. I have an electronic fly killer, but that doesn't seem to work as well as it might. One or two have suffered an excruciatingly painful death as they get 'zapped', but it seems that most of them tend to avoid it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Fly-Bye - Insect Killer 20W UV Light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 The little feckers moved in to ours just yesterday - and they're worse today. Fly papers have nailed a load of them, as has my trusty rolled-up tea towel. I had to resort to more drastic measures afore spending any quality time in the bog this morning and broke out the portable vacuum; this took some time and effort (emptied it outside straight away too) but proved fruitful in the end with a big wide nozzle on the end of it. The highlight of last nights tea towel assault was whacking a pair of them seamingly in mid sexy-time. What a way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckle Oxters Posted July 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Roachmill said: The highlight of last nights tea towel assault was whacking a pair of them seamingly in mid sexy-time. What a way to go Actually, dat soonds lik a no too bad wye tae go! Dirs a fly on my screen as a type dis... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckle Oxters Posted July 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Here's a rumour for wis tae start if it hasna started already.. I'm sure folk will find a wye tae blame da windfartsm for da flys so we might as well get goin, so.. I heard aa da flys hiv come up in containers we windfarm parts and/or dey are da result o diggin up da paet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 57 minutes ago, Muckle Oxters said: Actually, dat soonds lik a no too bad wye tae go! Yes, go out with a bang so to speak. Sorry. 52 minutes ago, Muckle Oxters said: Here's a rumour for wis tae start if it hasna started already... I'm not sure if I'm minding this right, but there was a similar plague of flies a few years back and Orkney got the blame for that IIRC - something to do with some of their waste getting shipped up here to burn. But yeah, windfarm this time for sure I heard [from the voices in my head] they removed the parts from the containers just so's they could fit in even more flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckle Oxters Posted July 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 21 minutes ago, Roachmill said: I'm not sure if I'm minding this right, but there was a similar plague of flies a few years back and Orkney got the blame for that IIRC - something to do with some of their waste getting shipped up here to burn. But yeah, windfarm this time for sure I heard [from the voices in my head] they removed the parts from the containers just so's they could fit in even more flies. Oh my mercy, dat wis right. I'd forgotten aboot the Orcadians. They must be in cahoots with the windfarm folk. So yis, I agree @Roachmill. I heard dat last week da containers bound fur Shetland stopped aff in Orkney, and da windfarm folk smuggled turbine parts oot o da containers tae sell tae da Orcadians, and den replaced da parts we tonne bags full o Orcadian flies. A man I ken kens anidder man whaa wis dare when dey opened da containers. Dey wir expectin boxes o bearings but got a facefull o bluebottles we up-and-doon pitched Orcadian buzzes instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Flees, whit flees, dis is da time o' year we ey deludedly, bit optimistically caa simmer......Dir ey flees ony antrin time da sun does glinder furt, den dey dee o' hypothermia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeesh Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 This might work, might need to scale it up a bit for flies though. George. and Colin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 11 hours ago, George. said: Fly-Bye - Insect Killer 20W UV Light I got one like that after the infestation we had a couple of years ago. The only fly it killed is one I found resting on thet bars enjoying the heat and when I pinged the grid he flew off into the zapper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 ^It worked then. It got a wee fly to sit and wait for the job to be done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) Its all very simple this, its the fault of all the fly tipping thats been going on since the Council took away skips, you can't just tip them where you like and expect them not to come back, so its all the Councils fault. ..........I'm getting my coat. Edited July 2, 2021 by Ghostrider Muckle Oxters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckle Oxters Posted July 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 Weel done @Ghostrider. I aye feel satisfied when folk find a wye to blame da cooncil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davie P Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 It's getting serious! https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2021/07/02/popular-cafe-closes-after-plague-of-flies/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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