This has been happening for several years, and happened in my parents' house too. Flies will gravitate towards me and buzz around the room I'm in, and then drop dead. I used to hear them plop on the carpet in my old bedroom where there were no animals. I don't have food, or empty food bowls/plates with me for more than ten minutes at a time. I'm crazy about dishes, so they never sit.
Now in my own apartment, I spend most of my time in the bird room/office and I always hear flies spazzing out as they drop, but I don't always see them. If I do and they're still kicking, I scoop them up in a little box and take them out to the cats in the other room to play with. The flies are literally NOWHERE else in the entire apartment, all year round. Yet all year round, they're with ME.
I decided to do some extra cleaning in the bird room today and when I took my beach towel down from the window (held there to keep drafts out during the winter), no less than 50 flies were there, stuck in the towel, on the window sill, on the floor, and in the fold of my curtain. There are legs everywhere. Some little fruit flies, which I could understand because my birds get moist food that's made of pureed fruits and vegetables and I have a few houseplants in here. A large amount of them are houseflies though!
I wish it was as easy as asking how to kill them, but apparently I'm good enough at that because they come to me to die. Do I just have a freaky aura of death or can anyone else sympathize? lol
Gross dead fly pictures! This was after I swept up a bunch. I need to vacuum the guys stuck in the window cracks. I don't want to try and sweep in there and have the legs break off and fly bits popping out at my face.
After I opened and shook out that one curtain.
Now in my own apartment, I spend most of my time in the bird room/office and I always hear flies spazzing out as they drop, but I don't always see them. If I do and they're still kicking, I scoop them up in a little box and take them out to the cats in the other room to play with. The flies are literally NOWHERE else in the entire apartment, all year round. Yet all year round, they're with ME.
I decided to do some extra cleaning in the bird room today and when I took my beach towel down from the window (held there to keep drafts out during the winter), no less than 50 flies were there, stuck in the towel, on the window sill, on the floor, and in the fold of my curtain. There are legs everywhere. Some little fruit flies, which I could understand because my birds get moist food that's made of pureed fruits and vegetables and I have a few houseplants in here. A large amount of them are houseflies though!
I wish it was as easy as asking how to kill them, but apparently I'm good enough at that because they come to me to die. Do I just have a freaky aura of death or can anyone else sympathize? lol
Gross dead fly pictures! This was after I swept up a bunch. I need to vacuum the guys stuck in the window cracks. I don't want to try and sweep in there and have the legs break off and fly bits popping out at my face.
After I opened and shook out that one curtain.