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by Monique Flies , Insects. This post contains affiliate links: Full Disclosure. Flies usually get into houses when people open their doors or windows. But there are many other ways for flies to get in, such as through cracks in walls or tears in insect screens.
People and pets often carry flies or fly eggs in without knowing it. There are many types of flies, but if any of them think there is food or a better climate in your home, you will have a hard time keeping them out. Knowing why flies come into your house and all the ways they get in will help you to stop them from coming in and kill them if they do.
Most flies get into a house from the outside by flying in through an open window or door. The most common flies you will find in your house are house flies — click here to find out how to identify house flies. If you keep all your doors and windows closed but flies still get in, check to make sure that there are no tears in your insect screens, holes around the door or window frames, damaged weather stripping, or broken windows.
Flies, especially young flies and small fly breeds, can squeeze through tiny holes — even between the strands of fly screens. Flies sometimes get into houses through cracks and gaps , like openings around plumbing and pipes, vents, cracks in foundations, holes in air conditioner filters or cracks around the unit, damaged ceilings, or holes in the roof.
These flies usually find such an opening by chance : Because there are so many flies flying around outside, buzzing around your house for many hours of the day, at some point one or two will find their way in through a gap.
Once inside, these flies look for food or somewhere to lay eggs. Chances are they will never find the same gap where they came in, so they will either spend the next two to four weeks of their life in your house until they die or they will find another way out. This happens when adult flies lay their eggs in your house without you knowing, and the first sign you see of an infestation is crawling maggots or baby flies in your home.
Each day for four days, the female fly lays batches of eggs. By the end of the week, you could have up to hatched eggs in your house! So that gives you up to maggots in your house within a week, if all of them survive. These maggots become adult flies in five to six days, and the young females start laying their own eggs. This is how you end up with a lot of flies inside your house in a very short time.
If you think flies are laying eggs in your house, you need to find out where the eggs are being laid. Check dark, moist areas where there is food and moisture for the maggots to survive. Flies have been known to lay their eggs in:.
Sometimes you, your family members, visitors, or pets unknowingly bring flies into the house. A fly could be sitting on the person or pet, or be hiding in luggage, a backpack, a handbag, or in school bags. Flies, eggs and maggots fly larvae can also be carried into the house on shoes, clothing, food, fresh cut flowers, or the soil used for potted plants. Any pest that moves into your home, such as squirrels or rats , can bring flies with it. Flies catch a ride on pests or follow them into your garage , attic, or basement.
Female flies will hurry over to lay their eggs on the dead animal so their maggots have something to eat when they hatch. And many flies, including carnivorous blow flies that eat meat, will find a way in to eat the rotting meat. But you might also have carried in the flies unknowingly or let flies in through open doors and windows.
Remember that it only takes one female fly to find her way into your apartment and to start laying eggs for you to get a serious fly infestation in your apartment. Drain flies love to eat and breed in sewage , and they are attracted to a house that has stagnant water in pipes or organic matter growing on the inside of house drains and storm drains.
Drain flies follow the smell of organic matter and stagnant water, which is why they might be attracted to your house. Click here to find out how to identify drain flies and how to get rid of them. Some flies, especially fruit flies, enjoy eating and breeding in these types of foods.
You could find these flies on fruits and vegetables that you bought from chain stores, outdoor markets, or even those you grow and pick from your own garden. Once inside, these flies spread to other foods in your home and multiply very quickly. I'm Monique. I love gardening and spending time in my backyard growing things. Here's where I share what I know about backyard pests and what to do about them, so you can enjoy your yard too.
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Thank you for your support! Monique loves gardening and spending time in her backyard, where she grows flowers, succulents, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Monique spends a lot of time researching how to protect her backyard from harmful pests and trying to attract beneficial insects and animals. In short: Diatomaceous earth DE kills pests, such as ants, fleas, flies, and bed bugs, when they walk or crawl over it. But DE kills good insects that come into contact with it too, like bees, Bed bugs are becoming fairly common household pests these days, lurking in our beds and furniture.
But do they ever crawl from these items into our hair? com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
We also participate in other affiliate programs which compensate us for referring traffic. Flies get in houses through doors or windows.
These maggots hatched from fly eggs. If you see maggots in your house or on your property, it means that flies are laying eggs nearby. MONIQUE Monique loves gardening and spending time in her backyard, where she grows flowers, succulents, herbs, fruits, and vegetables.
She shares everything that she learns and tests here at Backyard Pests.
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