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We still have a sell that we are fixing up between Sturgis and Deadwood in the Canyon and my dh just went there for a visit to check on it. The house is in good shape, just needs some brickwork outside and new carpet in the basement and other small cosmetic things. We also have friends in the area who check on it periodically--it's not ready to be on the market yet and we're still deciding if we will rent it or sell it or move back some day but anyway my dh said there were a zillion dead cluster flies in the house. Now we always had cluster flies in the Fall and I would sweep them up each day and I have never found a way to get rid of them. We have the house sprayed in the Fall but they still get in through the cracks (that's what County extension told me) they hibernate in the Fall but then when there is a warm day they wake up and come into the house through small cracks and then congregate in the sunny windows and they buzz around until they die. They don't come because of garbage or uncleanliness or anything like that. I really wish someone knew how to get rid of these flies!!! Does anyone have this problem? Is there a way to get rid of them?
Moderators--if this should go under another catergory like HOUSES, please move it! Not sure if it is just a SD problem or not!!
We still have a sell that we are fixing up between Sturgis and Deadwood in the Canyon and my dh just went there for a visit to check on it. The house is in good shape, just needs some brickwork outside and new carpet in the basement and other small cosmetic things. We also have friends in the area who check on it periodically--it's not ready to be on the market yet and we're still deciding if we will rent it or sell it or move back some day but anyway my dh said there were a zillion dead cluster flies in the house. Now we always had cluster flies in the Fall and I would sweep them up each day and I have never found a way to get rid of them. We have the house sprayed in the Fall but they still get in through the cracks (that's what County extension told me) they hibernate in the Fall but then when there is a warm day they wake up and come into the house through small cracks and then congregate in the sunny windows and they buzz around until they die. They don't come because of garbage or uncleanliness or anything like that. I really wish someone knew how to get rid of these flies!!! Does anyone have this problem? Is there a way to get rid of them?
Moderators--if this should go under another catergory like HOUSES, please move it! Not sure if it is just a SD problem or not!!
Pam
You can't get rid of them. But you can post a sign that says, "Keep Out". Just kidding.
Where I lived in the hills, we had a problem. So one spring my dad and I started around the house. Both of us armed with a caulking gun and a gazillion tubes of caulking silicone (actually less then $100 of caulk). We sealed every seam in the foundation. Around every door and window. Along the roof soffets, around plumbing going into or out of the house. We got on the roof and sealed around every vent pipe. We put new weather stripping on the door seals, on the window seals. We even put screens over top of the vents on the roof.
It really helped a lot. From that point on, the only fly's that got in the house came through the door with you. 4 or 5 a day and a fly swatter and careful aim took care of that. Of course, the one bad thing was, you couldn't open up the house unless you paid special attention to the window screens.
cluster flies come into home in fall, and wake up with heat lots of time it can be just a attic warming from the fall or winnter sun, then thhey try to make it outside so you find them by windows and doors, they use up all their energy and die trying, I know all this because I fight the battle and can never win, nasty little pests so I vacum everyday all the windows, wait till you side your house or bulding and pull old siding off that is a treat only halloween movies can recreate, gross like 10 million the wall was black, it looked like tar paper they were so tight....
Box elder bugs are about twice the size of a ladybug, more oval in shape, and can fly. They are dark brown, and their back has little orange stripes that kind of look like veins. They are harmless. I haven't seen a box elder tree for years, but they infest them. I haven't seen one here in central Sd in years, but we did have a box elder tree where I grew up and they were all over.
cluster flies come into home in fall, and wake up with heat lots of time it can be just a attic warming from the fall or winnter sun, then thhey try to make it outside so you find them by windows and doors, they use up all their energy and die trying, I know all this because I fight the battle and can never win, nasty little pests so I vacum everyday all the windows, wait till you side your house or bulding and pull old siding off that is a treat only halloween movies can recreate, gross like 10 million the wall was black, it looked like tar paper they were so tight....
I have same probelm and have been researching how to solve. I just read to use Permethrin, it is natural derived from chrysanthemum flowers. Im going to give it a try. I vacuum every other day and its just nasty, hundreds of them. Ill try anything at this point, dont like insecticides, but this sounds ok. Hope it works. dotdot1
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Just kidding.
cluster flies
