About a week ago we started getting these little flies/bugs around our house. Now there are hundreds of them. We're not sure what they are - they look like small flies but none of the descriptions we've found seem to match. Can anyone identify them?
What Are These Bugs Around Our House?
blitz on 20/06/2022 - 10:00
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My guess is cluster flies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIDLeADM1w
If I'm you, I will put fly trap (one that look like a lantern) or multiple those paper traps nearby asap. If this is indeed these flies, they may come into your house as the weather get colder outside.
Oh gross
Look like Brazilian flesh eating thrips.
Their breeding pattern sounds like it could account for the numbers in the photo, but they like decaying organic matter, so there would have to be some about for them to thrive.
A good guess, but these flies don't have red eyes. There's no decaying matter around the house, either. These flies are about 5mm in length, roughly.
If that were my place, they would be getting a visit from my mate Mortein.
Mortein?!?!
I'd be making that can a flamethrower!
Download the MyPestGuide Reporter App and submit photos, a taxonomist will get back to you with an answer
Hey thanks @marcusv! I've uploaded some pics to their web app.
Please update us with the outcome now that we’re all invested in your plight; we need closure. 🙂
I most definitely will!
Any dead bodies buried in you garden?
Fruit flies?
You could get an insect zapper and sit it outside. The same ones that butchers and bakeries have. I've got one and it zaps mozzies, fruit flies and flies. the odd ones that get inside.
OK, so WA MyPestGuide wrote back and said the bugs were likely from "the house fly group, possibly Calyptrate sp (Diptera: Calyptratae). The flies are probably using the plants as a meeting place in preparation to mate. It is also likely that the flies have recently emerged from pupation in the mulch and soil below the plants. Once they have hardened their wings and exoskeleton they will disperse away from the garden". What a great service! Thanks to @marcusv for that suggestion!
Wow that nasty. I thought stinky bugs was bad, this is worse.