The Blowflies.

[issatree]

Hi To You All,
Just wondering about this.
Bought one of those Yellow Top Fly Catchers from Bunnings a good while ago.
You get 3 Pkts. of what ever is in the Pkt. & neither of us having a smelling sense, it doesn't bother us, but apparently it really is a very smelly Gadget.
This one had been refilled about 16 Days ago, & there is about 35mm. deep of Flies in it at this time.
I usually wait a few more days & then empty the whole lot out & start again.
In fact as I write there are about 8 walking around in the Clear Bottle.
It was only 19Deg. here today, but this stuff just seems to attract them.

Question is : Does anybody else have as many Flies as we do here, or don't they worry you.

We have just this week put our beautiful Toy Poodle " Beau " Down after 17½ terrific Years, so not sure if He attracted a few more than wood be normal.

[Tonyz]

Flies what flies? Mind you we tend to keep our place clean.....:D

[Boringgeoff]

We had an onslaught of blowies a couple of weeks ago and filled two of those fly catchers in no time, I tend to think the attractant in the bottles may increase the number of blowies around. On the hot days they like to congregate in the dark recesses of my shed, but opening all the windows seems to get rid of them.
Saw an interesting thing recently and I've posted a couple of photos. I get a lot of daddy long leg spiders hanging out in the shed and the other day one caught a blowie in her web. This is fairly unusual as their web is pretty flimsey and a blowie can generally struggle free but not this time. Three spiders tried to aproach the fly to wrap it up and the biggest would stop when it felt the others get too close and hunt them away. When she had eventually wrapped the blowie up all three proceeded to suck its juices, I've not noticed this communal behaviour before and I do apologise for the poor quality of the photos which supposedly show three spiders at the smorgasbord. Count the legs!
Cheers,
Geoff.