Flies All Over House Siding

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Flies all over house siding.

The most common reason for flies swarming all over your house is an infestation inside or nearby your home. Overwintering insects generally stay in secluded areas until the warming and lengthening days of spring pull them from hiding. Cluster flies come from the calliphoridae family. This is the same family to which bottle or blow flies belong.

Those large flies in your home in winter are probably cluster flies which overwinter in the protected areas between the inside and outside walls of your home or in the attic or basement. If i go outside they are clinging to the siding vinyl and buzzing around hitting me in the face. Unlike brick or wood homes the sugar particles which may not be detectable to the human eye stick to the vinyl siding causing flies to gather. The source is likely inside your house garage attic or garden.

By james clark insects such as flies are naturally drawn to vinyl siding because vinyl siding attracts build up of airborne sugar particles from nearby trees plants and brush. While there are thousands of species of flies musca domestica is the variety most likely to bug you both inside and outside of your home found as they are on every continent inhabited by humans. House flies are about inch long and gray. Houseflies are found almost everywhere people live.

Cluster flies are large black coloured flies with the scientific name pollenia rudis they show up in homes from late fall through early spring. Seal cracks around windows and doors where flies may enter. Use well fitted small mesh well maintained screens on all doors and windows. A cluster fly is very much similar to a house fly.

In the past week i ve noticed thousands of flies randomly all over the side of my house all 4 sides actually. If it is cool or cold out the flies will land on the siding to get warm if the sun is shining on it. If you re suffering a large swarm of flies in the house save yourself the cardio of whipping your flyswatter about and first see if you can get the majority of them to leave willingly. I have flies all over the outside of my house.

They lay their eggs on animal feces garbage and in rotting organic material. I think a few even bit me it feels like.