Where have all the flies gone?!!

[Golfmmad]

No I'm not going mad.
They mentioned this on the radio this morning, and I thought, come to think of it, I've seen hardly any at all - even on hot days of late there hasn't been any. August usually brings out the wasps too, again, haven't seen any.

Can anyone suggest a reason?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We've a really annoying blue bottle flying around the living room and putting me right off the TV. Plenty of wasps down my way too

 

[SatchFan]

Plenty in my conservatory at the moment but fortunately my cat is a dab hand at catching them. To be fair there doesn't seem to be as many around and that also goes for the usual flying ant fest this time of year.

 

[Golfmmad]

We've a really annoying blue bottle flying around the living room and putting me right off the TV. Plenty of wasps down my way too

Must be the cleaner fresher air down here on the south coast!

 

[Golfmmad]

Plenty in my conservatory at the moment but fortunately my cat is a dab hand at catching them. To be fair there doesn't seem to be as many around and that also goes for the usual flying ant fest this time of year.

It's weird, there's none at all in my conservatory.

I'm a dab hand too with the fly swat and can usually be seen when I get home from work in the conservatory, swishing away - not this year though! :mmm:

 

[USER1999]

Late start due to the weather. Now got wasps in the loft, and flies in the green bin. Normality resumed. Happy days.

 

[Hobbit]

Rumour has it many of them have gone to Rio.

 

[SocketRocket]

Flyxit

 

[Doon frae Troon]

In my wee corner of SW Scotland.
No ants or wasps, very few bees, flies or butterflies.
Brexit?

Fantastic year for flowers and veg in the garden though.

 

[USER1999]

Loads of butterfly's in Dorset last week.

 

[Smiffy]

You should have been in our spare bedroom the other week.
Wife bought a new Ottoman to put at the bottom of the bed, with the intention of loading all my golf/casual shoes in there to tidy the place up a bit.
I plonked all of them in there, went to get a pair out the following week and there must have been a million flies flew out of there, like a scene from the Amityville Horror.
How was I to know that the cats had caught a mouse, mullered it to within a inch of it's life and it had crawled into one of my shoes to die.
Bloody hell.

 

[virtuocity]

How was I to know that the cats had caught a mouse, mullered it to within a inch of it's life and it had crawled into one of my shoes to die.

What a way to go. Coroner's report will read: death by stink.

 

[Doh]

It's weird, there's none at all in my conservatory.

I'm a dab hand too with the fly swat and can usually be seen when I get home from work in the conservatory, swishing away - not this year though! :mmm:

Where did you get fitted for it.

 

[Hobbit]

It's weird, there's none at all in my conservatory.

I'm a dab hand too with the fly swat and can usually be seen when I get home from work in the conservatory, swishing away - not this year though! :mmm:

Where did you get fitted for it.

Is it a left or right handed one?

 

[BesCumber]

Is it a left or right handed one?

I have one that can be used either handed.
I guess that makes it non-conforming. Oh blast.. :mmm:

 

[patricks148]

plenty of Cleggs about at the turn on Saturday... lets hope the wind blew them all down there on Sunday

 

[arnieboy]

Plenty of slugs and snails in the garden every day for weeks now.

 

[Golfmmad]

You should have been in our spare bedroom the other week.
Wife bought a new Ottoman to put at the bottom of the bed, with the intention of loading all my golf/casual shoes in there to tidy the place up a bit.
I plonked all of them in there, went to get a pair out the following week and there must have been a million flies flew out of there, like a scene from the Amityville Horror.
How was I to know that the cats had caught a mouse, mullered it to within a inch of it's life and it had crawled into one of my shoes to die.
Bloody hell.

That'll teach you to play 'cat and mouse'!

 

[Golfmmad]

Where did you get fitted for it.

I had my two Grandaughters in stitches when I got home tonight - when a large bluebottle came in the conservatory and me trying to swish it like mad and missing as it was too quick for me! To top it all, as I made one wild swish, and missed, the plastic head broke off!

I'm now swatless, thinking about buying a new one along with some lessons. oo:

 

[SocketRocket]

Where did you get fitted for it.

My swatter is 2% upright and I had a SuperStroke Fatso 5.0 grip fitted. it's great when I swing smooth