Flies

[Creamer]

Somewhat random question: is anyone else seeing crazy amounts of flies outside? Is it possibly related to the EHD outbreak (large number of carcasses leading to large amounts of flies)? I am in Athens County. We have two disposable bag fly traps on our back deck and in about 4 days they are nearly FULL of flies already. I've never seen the amount of flies outdoors that I'm seeing right now.

 

[Creamer]

This is one of the traps. They’re both this full.

 

[finelyshedded]

Flies were everywhere while we were repairing fence yesterday.

 

[Sauger]

I dont know about you, but this happens at my house every time this year. We get a cool off and when it warms back up we get them all over the siding of the house

 

[Curran]

I was just noticing the same thing on Sunday. Just seems like there were more flies around... enough to make me question why?

 

[Creamer]

I dont know about you, but this happens at my house every time this year. We get a cool off and when it warms back up we get them all over the siding of the house

This is our first year at this house, but the last house was only about 8-9 miles away so it's not like a really new area. We had one random year at the last house that was similar to this. Now I wish I could remember if it was a bad EHD year.

 

[giles]

Just like the midge, this summer was perfect storm for all flies.