Window Washing Time
@just4him (323168)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
July 26, 2018 2:35pm CST
I'm going to need to wash my office window. Not today though, when summer is over. After the flies have gone.
I don't know where they came from suddenly, but I feel like I'm being barraged by flies. I'm killing two at a time, and splatting guts all over my window. Yeah, I know, gross.
I'll be so glad when summer is over. My fruit fly population has multiplied overnight too. I'm so happy fall is only 7 weeks away now. The end is in sight for all those unseemly flies.
My aim is getting better. I'm really knocking off a lot of them, but just as many seem to take their place.
Are you seeing a lot of flies where you live? Are they just as annoying?
Thanks for reading.
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@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
27 Jul 18
@just4him - We don't have many flies, except when I go horseback riding. The horseflies are huge! Fall is only seven weeks away? Wow! Where did the summer go? LOL
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@DeborahDiane (40845)
• Laguna Woods, California
28 Jul 18
@just4him - I agree! I don't like flies, either!
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Jul 18
@DeborahDiane I found a solution. 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
26 Jul 18
there are quite a lot of flies here due to the heatwave
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
27 Jul 18
@just4him I think mine just like open windows so far
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@MsBooklover (3974)
• United States
26 Jul 18
We don't have a lot of flies here, but sometimes one or two will get in. I have never been able to kill two at one time. You get an award for that.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
30 Jul 18
@MsBooklover I haven't seen any dragonfly's this summer. I think they're a lovely insect.
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@MsBooklover (3974)
• United States
29 Jul 18
@just4him Wow! Four in one place. One insect we have here is the dragonfly. They fly right to you. Sometimes one is on top of another. They love to hang out by the pool. My Mother used to call them baby bats!
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@Kasjnak (4489)
• Romania
26 Jul 18
Not that many flies here, but I know what you mean. We used to kill hundreds of them at my old place, not to mention mosquitos 
. Also, temperatures used to be higher this time of year, near 100 degrees, but they are around 80. Still, we had a lot of rain and it's suffocating, it feels like breathing water 
. Maybe that's why we don't have that many flies now 
.
. Also, temperatures used to be higher this time of year, near 100 degrees, but they are around 80. Still, we had a lot of rain and it's suffocating, it feels like breathing water . Maybe that's why we don't have that many flies now .1 person likes this
@eliza_godinez12 (5783)
• Philippines
27 Jul 18
No, i haven't seen flies in place where we live now. But they're seems so annoying.
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@JESSY3236 (22247)
• United States
31 Jul 18
no. But I have been seeing alot of hummingbirds at my feeders and ants.
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
28 Jul 18
im actually really surprised we haven't had much of an insect problem this summer. as usually, we go through the same that you are right now.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
29 Jul 18
This morning there are almost no flies in the house, which is very good. Besides the lemon juice and cloves, I also bought fly paper. There weren't even any flies in my bedroom this morning, and only one in the office, and it ain't moving. I'm glad you don't have the problem.
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 Jul 18
Nope, not many flies. I go nuts to kill a fly in my house. I can`t live with flies.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Jul 18
I can't either, but I have no choice. They seem to be multiplying.
@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
27 Jul 18
This must be a year for flies, seems like I have a lot of them too
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Jul 18
I've seen a lot of butterflies this year compared to previous years.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Jul 18
That's great! The only pesticide I have is the fly swatter.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
27 Jul 18
Flies drops a lot of maggots specially if they get into your food, get RID of them as fast.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Jul 18
There's too many of them to get rid of them fast.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Jul 18
Ants are terrible too. Get some ground cloves and lay it around the edges of your counters and window sills. You won't see them anymore. They hate cloves, and I noticed it's like poison to them. It actually kills them.
@Juliaacv (56180)
• Canada
26 Jul 18
No, I haven't noticed many flies this year.
But we could be in store for them, I don't know.
I like this part of the summer, less hours in the day where there is the extreme heat, yet it is still warm.
And I do love the autumn.
My husband is counting down the weeks until pre-season starts-ugh!
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Jul 18
Yea! Preseason. It's not really weeks anymore here. We're having family night this weekend, and then there will be another night I think before preseason starts. The news is already starting to show the Packers in gear practicing.
It's not really weeks anymore here. We're having family night this weekend, and then there will be another night I think before preseason starts. The news is already starting to show the Packers in gear practicing.1 person likes this
@RasmaSandra (97954)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Jul 18
You know the only things that have bugged me in my apartment in Florida are pesky fruit flies and I don't even have any fruit. I have not seen any flies.
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