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JMH
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2013 08:30pm
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Hi,
We have a 16x20 cabin in the Canadian Rockies. We like to use it in the cooler months but we have one problem...flies. It seems like within 5 minutes of turning on the furnace black flies are buzzing the windows. It's a newer cabin and it seems to be sealed well so we have no idea where they come from. They get worse and worse during our stay. Does anyone else have this problem? They're not an issue in the summer.
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LakeSuperior5
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2013 09:29pm
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Cluster flies? We get them as we'll this time of year.
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Steve961
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2013 09:37pm
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I used to have major problems with them in my old cabin and resorted to keeping a no Pest Strip inside when I wasn't there. It didn't keep them from getting in, but it did kill them once they did. Whenever I showed up in late fall I'd find my floor covered in dead flies, which is a lot easier to deal with than chasing the live ones around when the cabin warmed up.
No Pest Strip
Just remember to move the No Pest Strip outside when you arrive and let the cabin air out a bit.
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justincasei812
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# Posted: 4 Oct 2013 08:58am
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I hunt in the western UP of Michigan and by the time we are up there it is cold and sometime snow on the ground (Mid to late November) and I always thought it was weird that the place we stayed had so many flies. Then realized it was "natural" for that time of year. We would go out and hunt come back and turn on the lights and they would buzz around the lights so we started to take the vaccuum hose and just suck them up. Works for a while but every day (once or twice) we just suck them up and the dead ones on the window sills.
I was at the cabin in Northern Michigan last weekend and I vaccuumed up about a 100 dead flies off the window sills and I hadn't been there in a few weeks. Better dead than alive I guess.
Maybe try a bug bomb when you leave, it will at least kill the ones that are still in the cabin and maybe leave enough stuff around to take care of anything that might get in or hatch while you are gone.
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SandyR
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# Posted: 4 Oct 2013 09:00am
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We had this problem growing in our cabin. It didn't bother us too much. After the place was heated up the flies came to life, or spun on their backs on the floor. We just used fly swatters until there wasn't anymore left.
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Rossman
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# Posted: 4 Oct 2013 12:53pm
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Get this at the RV every weekend. As soon as we warm it up, they are all over the place. They mostly seem interested in getting outside and all cluster around the door. I open it periodically and they all go rushing out 
They are pretty harmless tho, I would rather have them, than mozzies!
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Montanan
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2013 08:57pm
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Yep- we get them from time to time too- mostly around the window frames. We just open the windows and let them out...or the kids like to catch them in cups and fry them on the wood stove.
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JMH
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# Posted: 6 Oct 2013 09:31am
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I guess I'm glad we're not the only one with this problem! They actually got better as the weekend went on. We're closing up for the season so the next time we have to deal with them with be spring.
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brokeneck
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# Posted: 3 Nov 2013 11:32pm
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They come out all winter long as soon as the stove warms the place up place is really clean so not sure what the eat -- but it is amazing how cold they can hibernate through --
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SE Ohio
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# Posted: 4 Nov 2013 09:42am
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A few years back we had a lot of flies trapped in the cabin in early spring. I put better weather stripping up around doors and have not had many since.
Just used our fireplace (at home, not cabin) yesterday for first time this season. Opened the flue and it rained stink bugs! Lit fire quickly... They won't be overwintering in my chimney.
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kdrtk
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# Posted: 5 Nov 2013 10:51am
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Vacum them up. Works fantastic, I have the small 2.0 hp, 1.5 gallon shop vac. Carry the vacum in one hand and suck up flies with the other. Put a new bag on each fall for maximum suction.
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rayyy
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# Posted: 5 Nov 2013 06:19pm
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Cluster flies.Had them when I was a kid growing up.The upstairs windows would be covered with them.They are just a goofy bread of fly that get's in and hibernates for the winter in nooks and crannies, but being that your home is kept nice and warm keeps them active and moving towards the sun lighted windows.No real way of getting rid of them except vacuuming them up.
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old243
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# Posted: 30 Dec 2013 10:30pm
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It is my understanding that they hatch in the spring, in the ground , using earthworm burrows, or other openings. They mature over the summer . We see flocks of birds in the fall on our lawn chasing after them, or something. We used to have hens running around the yard, they had a field day. They then seem to all want to come to the house for the winter. My wife then has a field day with her vaccumcleaner. I tell her they are just crawling back out the hose, and there tomorrow again. Old 243
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Millman
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:11am
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yeah it is a common thing, try using odorless fly replants
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kittysmitty
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2014 05:40am
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I had them all the time when I first built my camp. Talked to an old guy one day. His solution was to find an old unused wasp/hornet/yellow jacket nest and put it inside. He had a large one in his place and had very few flies. I found these at my Canadian Tire, put up one inside and one outside. The outside one lasted a few years. The one inside, is still up and we have very few flies. Works for me!
Bee-Free Natural Wasp Deterrent
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TheWildMan
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2014 07:58am
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look up those homemade fly traps made from a 2 or 3 liter soda bottle, they don't cost much to make, put some kind of bait in them like sugary water or old fruit and flies and yellow jackets will fly in, cant find a way out, and are trapped. if you use a water based lure they fall in when they are too tired to fly and drown.
works good in my outhouse and outdoor kitchen for keeping the bugs in check
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:11pm
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We used to have the no-pest strips hanging in the cabin. I don’t know if I’d trust them today, even if I had aired out the cabin. I’d think that that stuff gets into all the fabrics (pillows, sheets, furniture, etc, plus settle on all the surfaces like utensils, plates, glasses...) )
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JavierRoussel
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# Posted: 26 Mar 2018 05:03am
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LakeSuperior5, we do have that.
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Wilbour
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# Posted: 30 Mar 2018 08:27pm
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Trusty car vac and Booster Battery from the trunk of my car.
More of a "Catch and Release" but no toxic fumes
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