What distinguishes the Cluster Fly from the regular verminous varieties? Are they easier to catch with chopsticks?

I think a fly couple lives in my house. every now and then I hear them and sure enough 2 flies zoom by and land on the wall. then they fly off together to who knows where. those crazy flies.

Cluster-Fuck Flies are even worse.

Yuck!

Btw, I finished Omivore's Dilemma finally and it is the single most life-changing book I've ever read. Thank you for the suggestion. Hope all is well in Twwly Country!

cluster flies are probably less scary than brundle flies!


how's the pregnancy going? are you having a boy or a girl this time?

Simply fascinating! I can certainly see how they'd be far more disgusting than the regular variety. Ah, the nuances of farm life, no? We have a similar problem here around campus, seeing as we're so close to the hills. Soon as the days get warm, all the buildings get absolutely swarmed by millions of Box Elder bugs, which are red and black beetles about the size of a large sunflower seed. Trying to go into a building is like walking through a New York cloud of pigeons. You find them for hours after you've gone inside. They'll crawl out right from behind your ear. Good times.

We call them horse flies over here. They're ridiculous!

That sucks Just saw ( and almost stepped on ) my first rattlesnake of the year Skipped spring and headed right into summer. It was almost 90 today

Ewwww! I hope they aren't any bigger than a horse fly!

I've heard cluster flies are absolutely horrible! Hope they don't cause you too much trouble this year!

When does the growing season start and end where you are? I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to plant my outside garden but I feel like I'd be starting so late and may wind up not beating the fall frosts.
I Googled cluster flies. Wow, those are gross.

Well, look at it as a trade off. In the country you have cluster flies...in the city, you'd have Cockroaches!

I wish you good luck bat farming then.