BORED OF THE FLIES
Seems I have a wasp nest inside one of my walls. This is contrary to my initial theory that the late night scratching noises were mice. Also there is a weirdly large number of flies associated with it. I am not familiar with "flies' nest." Hopefully there is a "good" explanation for this.
EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE
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I have emptied a few cans of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into likely holes/crevices/cracks. I now have a uncomfortably large number of houseflies with their neurotransmitters messed up ricocheting drunkenly around the inside of my cabin. Hopefully they will soon be supine on the floor and windowsills where they can be conveniently delivered into the inner recesses of the ShopVac. Meanwhile I think I'll go crack open yet another can of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas.
I think "wasp nest" should probably read "fly nests." ?!???!
I am still not sure where all the flies are coming from. They seem to appear indoors rather than by flying in through openings like windows and doors et cetera. It's as if they are in the walls but ... I don't smell a bunch of dead squirrels, you know. In fact I don't smell anything that smells like fly food at all. I'm frankly afraid to speculate. Of course, I have to take the siding off the cabin sometime to redo the insulation, so I'll be learning the grim and likely macabre truth soon enough. Ewww.
Ewww.
Did I mention ewww?
For the record I would just like to say ewww.
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Some things you should just not get into mid-evening. They drag on, and then it is no longer evening. It is the wee hours and things are more desperate, not less. I seem to have a friendly and very large legion of blue bottle flies hanging out in my walls for no obvious reason.
I emptied another can of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into the cracks of my siding outdoors as well as some of another can of Won't Harm Plants! (But That Isn't the Point) Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into some interior crevices. I think this brought forth more flies, not fewer. It is strange to spray Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into a crack where wasps should be and instead see half dead flies cascade forth. Well, for some blood curdling alternate definition of "strange."
Two hours, two Goldschlager miniatures and a carefully measured portion of Tanqueray vodka later, the flies are mostly in the supine silent twitching state and I am not so worried about the rest.
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Days Later
So the flies are abated.
I moved my extension ladder to the offending side of the cabin. Not knowing exactly where the flies were coming from, I first drilled some holes into the upper part of the siding (there is no insulation up there, just voids in the walls - have to fix that before winter) and poured in Sevin dust and followed with a good blast of more Fresh Scent Nerve Gas.
Then I started spraying around the window and eave trim. That was interesting. Flies began staggering/falling/buzzing out just like wasps from a gassed nest. I sprayed more. Much more.
When the outflux of afflicted flies had slowed sufficiently, I pried off the offending trim. Ewww. Many fly and wasp carcasses. And still more drunken buzzing staggering dying flies. Ewww. There's that word again.
I pried off some more trim and applied follow-up doses of my friend, Fresh Scent Nerve Gas, over the next few days. The flies were in the trim, not the walls. That is a Good Thing(TM).
Now, there is only the occasional fly. Not ten of them buzzing around inside at the same time with seemingly endless reinforcements streaming in from the rear.
Yay.
Seems I have a wasp nest inside one of my walls. This is contrary to my initial theory that the late night scratching noises were mice. Also there is a weirdly large number of flies associated with it. I am not familiar with "flies' nest." Hopefully there is a "good" explanation for this.
EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE
* * * * *
I have emptied a few cans of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into likely holes/crevices/cracks. I now have a uncomfortably large number of houseflies with their neurotransmitters messed up ricocheting drunkenly around the inside of my cabin. Hopefully they will soon be supine on the floor and windowsills where they can be conveniently delivered into the inner recesses of the ShopVac. Meanwhile I think I'll go crack open yet another can of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas.
I think "wasp nest" should probably read "fly nests." ?!???!
I am still not sure where all the flies are coming from. They seem to appear indoors rather than by flying in through openings like windows and doors et cetera. It's as if they are in the walls but ... I don't smell a bunch of dead squirrels, you know. In fact I don't smell anything that smells like fly food at all. I'm frankly afraid to speculate. Of course, I have to take the siding off the cabin sometime to redo the insulation, so I'll be learning the grim and likely macabre truth soon enough. Ewww.
Ewww.
Did I mention ewww?
For the record I would just like to say ewww.
* * * * *
Some things you should just not get into mid-evening. They drag on, and then it is no longer evening. It is the wee hours and things are more desperate, not less. I seem to have a friendly and very large legion of blue bottle flies hanging out in my walls for no obvious reason.
I emptied another can of Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into the cracks of my siding outdoors as well as some of another can of Won't Harm Plants! (But That Isn't the Point) Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into some interior crevices. I think this brought forth more flies, not fewer. It is strange to spray Fresh Scent Nerve Gas into a crack where wasps should be and instead see half dead flies cascade forth. Well, for some blood curdling alternate definition of "strange."
Two hours, two Goldschlager miniatures and a carefully measured portion of Tanqueray vodka later, the flies are mostly in the supine silent twitching state and I am not so worried about the rest.
* * * * *
Days Later
So the flies are abated.
I moved my extension ladder to the offending side of the cabin. Not knowing exactly where the flies were coming from, I first drilled some holes into the upper part of the siding (there is no insulation up there, just voids in the walls - have to fix that before winter) and poured in Sevin dust and followed with a good blast of more Fresh Scent Nerve Gas.
Then I started spraying around the window and eave trim. That was interesting. Flies began staggering/falling/buzzing out just like wasps from a gassed nest. I sprayed more. Much more.
When the outflux of afflicted flies had slowed sufficiently, I pried off the offending trim. Ewww. Many fly and wasp carcasses. And still more drunken buzzing staggering dying flies. Ewww. There's that word again.
I pried off some more trim and applied follow-up doses of my friend, Fresh Scent Nerve Gas, over the next few days. The flies were in the trim, not the walls. That is a Good Thing(TM).
Now, there is only the occasional fly. Not ten of them buzzing around inside at the same time with seemingly endless reinforcements streaming in from the rear.
Yay.