• Baku
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    2 days ago

    The flies recently have been absolutely insane. Since that coincides with the end of TheStench™️, I’m going to assume that either they ate TheStench, or they flies I killed laid their eggs in TheStench, and now they’ve run out of food

    There’s a gap in the skylight in the laundry that I can’t put back myself because when I tried the entire thing fell out and it was a bitch and a half to put back in. The flies have been escaping from there. I went in and absolutely doused it with fly spray last night, and there are at least a hundred dead flies everywhere now. There’s a few dozen on the floor that escaped the gap, and I counted about 90 in the skylight. Ugh

    On the double downside, all the flys have brought a number of spider out of hiding. There’s at least 2 living in my fruit bowl, and I’ve seen a bunch of others around. Thankfully not gigantic ones, but I’m still scared of spiders so it isn’t exactly ideal

    Next weekend I reckon I’m doing bug bombs. This house was empty for a fair while before I moved in, so it’ll probably do good. Gonna buy a cobweb thingy too

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        2 days ago

        Sleeping, probably

        They did send that dude who tried to find it but couldn’t. But the slight gap in the skylight was deemed a non issue, and pest control in places I can get to is my responsibility 🤷‍♂️

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          If flies are coming in through that skylight, it’s pretty silly of them to deem it a non issue. Sorry you have to put with this.

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            2 days ago

            Technically it’s not that much of an issue because it’s kind of double layered. As in - there’s one at the top/roof level, then a big space, then a second one at indoor ceiling height. The space is surrounded by plaster, etc

            The gap is just in the 2nd indoor/ceiling height one. I’m not 100% sure how the flies are getting in, but there must be a hole or something in that space that’s letting them in from wherever they’re spawning from in the roof