How do you track down where flies are breeding?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Friend is having some issues with lots of flies, but doesn't know how to find out where they are breeding.

Any advice? I tried Google, but didn't find anything much at all other than some articles that acknowledge it has to be done. Do you just look around for where you see them most?

 

[MrPickins]

Houseflies? Just look for trash/carcasses.

Edit: That and maggots. :barf; You'll see them crawling.

 

[shortylickens]

When I first read this I thought you said "files".
First thing I would have suggested is check for viruses.

Anywho, I would clear the family out of the house and utilize a bug bomb.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Indoors or Outdoors?

 

[BoomerD]

We live in dairy country...flies are our state bird...

 

[djheater]

1. Catch them
2. Carefully glue them to a gps unit.
3. Follow them to their secret breeding grounds
4. Profit

 

[randay]

look for the dead body.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Stop hiding corpses under the stairs.

 

[iamwiz82]

I'd follow the Isaac Hayes music and the scent of KY.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Indoors or Outdoors?

Indoor.

For this question, I guess I'm more curious than it is an issue. Besides the density of flies, is there any other way to detect the location? If we kill a few, and can determine the species, does that help at all?

 

[Anubis]

if they are fruit flies - get rid of rotten fruit
big ass house flies - trash inside or outside can breed them, or say a dead mouse in the wall

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I'd follow the Isaac Hayes music and the scent of KY.

listen for the tiny moans.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Anyway to determine if it's coming from a particular room? If yes, then I would look for any cracks in the baseboards, window frames or any place they might be able to come thru.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Anywho, I would clear the family out of the house and utilize an H-bomb.

Fixed.

That's nasty. I'd burn it down and move.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I'd follow the Isaac Hayes music and the scent of KY.

QFT...get a sexy fly costume and the fly sex will find you.