But I thought I'd at least throw something up on my blog. We walked in around 3 am on Wednesday morning from the airport and found our home was overtaken by flies. Well, maybe not overtaken. But there were a lot of them. And they were BIG. Like almost an inch long. Gross. In the first 15 minutes of being home, Braden killed about 20 of them. Throughout the course of that day and onto Thursday, he killed another dozen more or so.
I did a lot of reading to find out what these were and where they were coming from. I learned they are called flesh flies. That was enough to turn my stomach. But then when I read they were flies the thrive off the decomposing flesh of dead animals, I wanted to run and...you know. They had to originate in the house which meant there was a dead animal in the house. The only cure for them was to locate said animal and remove it. We went on a little search and found a dead mouse under the AC/heater in the basement.
6 comments:
gross. but at least you found the source of the problem... blechh
Blech! That's awful! What a terrible thing to have to come home to. Glad you got rid of the problem. (i'm still gagging over the maggots. so gross!)
that's just plain ole gross. thanks for sharing, though. it was also funny...glad it wasn't me. :)
Seriously gross. We've had a ton of flies here in Cali. and I've had to clean maggots out of our outside garbage can two weeks in a row. Nasty! But a dead mouse?? Flesh eating flies?? You've got me beat.
EW! CO is out of the question, but how about CHI? Fly free? But our mosquitos have west nile...toss up?
so I had a similar experience today but it was a bird and we hadn't got yet to the fly stage. Still Totally Gross.
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