The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on September 19, 2012, 02:59:43 pm
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Has anyone ever been bitten by a house fly? I didn't think they bit people but there is one in my sitting room which keeps landing on my feet. The first I knows of it is when I get a sharp pain. You can see it's a bite and it gradually goes red over about an inch.
I don't use fly spray as it affects my asthma but I'm going to have to send OH in to spray the room.
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No, never been bitten by a house fly. In fact i didn't even know they did bite. Horse flys were a problem a month or so ago but they seem to have gone now.
Sally
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I didn't think that houseflies could bite but my mum swears that they bite her! :o She says exactly the same as you MGM. She always gets really badly bitten by all the more usual biting crawlies too.
You must be very tasty. ;D
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I didn't think that houseflies could bite but my mum swears that they bite her! :o She says exactly the same as you MGM. She always gets really badly bitten by all the more usual biting crawlies too.
You must be very tasty. ;D
So I've been told. :roflanim:
It certainly looks like a house fly in shape but slightly smaller and seems to have a whitish head. I tend to have nasty reactions to bites. Horse flies can cause quite an infection if they bite me. This one isn't so bad but still hurts for a while. I'm now keeping anti-histamine cream to hand.
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It certainly looks like a house fly in shape but slightly smaller and seems to have a whitish head.
So you haven't squished the mean old blighter yet? You're toooooo nice MGM. ;D ;D
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Thank god its not just me. I thought house flies did not bite, but now I get a sharp pain when one lands on me. This has only happened since I was ill a few years ago. I have never mentioned it to any one in case they think I'm mad
Rose
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They do bite but, I find, only as the weather gets cooler.
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We have these at the moment, vicious little b***ds too quick to kill but still get ya when your watching telly
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I'm glad it's not just me. Well, not glad exactly because I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt but glad that my experience has been confirmed by others. My OH is under strict instructions to bring fly spray back with him from tomorrow's shopping trip (he forgot last week) or I will be looking for husband killer spray.
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In our house, it seems to be the tiny little black flies that are everywhere and bite like hell
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Allergic to spray, what about fly papers? Ugly but effective.
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Mgwm :bouquet: get some natural aloe Vera sap onto it. It feels such a relief :sunshine:
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Have you tried washing your feet ? :innocent: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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I find that year on year, fly spray is totall ineffctive. Even Raid which used to be good, doesnt work. Im sure the flies are getting an inbuilt immunity from it. Ive gone through tins of the bloomin' stuff this year, none has worked unless Ive been able to get so near to the fly that Ive been able to drown the little bugger. I have more luck swatting them with a tea towel if I get one in the kitchen , plus I have those sticky fly papers hanging down.
I used to have one of those "Red Top" fly catcher thingies that smell like rotting flesh, it did work up to a fashion but you have to have it so far from the house and from animals. It was okay for bluebottles, but the normal house flies still came in, plus you had the stink!!!
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Yes, Tiz, I have washed my feet so don't be so cheeky. :huff:
Mammyshaz, I'll try that.
OH has just gone shopping. I reminded him about fly spray so he'd BETTER NOT COME BACK WITHOUT ANY.
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Please do remember, though, that what kills flies is poisoning you :(
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A friend of mine has been having problems with deer flies recently - which I'd never heard about; says they look a bit like blue bottles. And she )and her husband) had very nasty reactions to them - ill for several days. Mind you, that was in Ireland - maybe they are a local variety?
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No, there were deer flies in Arran - nasty vicious brutes bigger than horse flies and I had to have anti-histamines at all times to take if I was bitten because of the reaction.
OH is still alive as he remembered the fly spray ;D . The fly appeared soon after and landed on my slippers so I gave it a good squirt, asthma or no asthma. It flew off but I haven't seen it since. Hopefully it is now dead.
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A friend of mine has a battery powered electric tennis racquet! by pressing the button,they stick to it,fry a little,and fall off when the button is released.quite amazing really-and it works :thumbsup:
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leghorn, I have one of those and they are as you say brilliant, but you still have to hit the buggers
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That would be a problem for me. I can't move that fast. Sounds good though.
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No, there were deer flies in Arran - nasty vicious brutes bigger than horse flies and I had to have anti-histamines at all times to take if I was bitten because of the reaction.
Ah - maybe they are more a thing of the west, then. If we did have any here in the NE, I'm sure they would have found me by now. I've recently been bitten a lot by something or other - never saw the beasties - but anything that likes blood seems to like me...