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.
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- Thread starter Creamer
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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.
Just like the midge, this summer was perfect storm for all flies.
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With having livestock, I'm pretty in tune with the bugs and can tell you we've never seen the # of flies in our barn/coops like we did this year. It was wild how bad they were in the barn peak EHD outbreak. The cool mornings we had a few weeks ago seemed to help, in addition to catching a few thousand!