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Midge attack. Episode one

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Yes, 20.09.2005 14:48

Moscow. New house of the P44-T series. On the upper floors, mainly from the sunny side (sun until 11.00), hordes of midges accumulate. Small ones like that, black ones. Do not bite like. If you open the window, they are perceived as an invitation to visit - they fly in and are placed on the ceiling. There are a lot of them, you have to clean them with a vacuum cleaner.

Who are they? Where can they breed? Moisture? Is it warm? How to deal with them?

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20.09.2005 14:56, Helene

It seems that we are talking about fruit flies (I can't be more precise). Do not bite, because they are herbivorous, rotten fruits prefer, etc. Multiply in the house in large numbers, if you do not take out the garbage for a long time. In favorable years (and this year is just like this: the summer is wet) they give a massive outbreak in nature, then they really fly from the street in hordes even to a completely clean apartment. In this case, it is probably necessary to fight with a vacuum cleaner (not counting clogging the windows completely). wink.gif
What I didn't think was that they could reach the upper floors of P44-T in large numbers. I have a second floor and trees under the window-got drosophila wink.gif

20.09.2005 19:35, sealor

If they are fruit flies, and they must be, then I have observed that they breed mainly in garbage cans, garbage bins, and similar places. So if there is a garbage chute-then probably they are from-there. And if not, then out of the trash cans. Well, or someone's culture broke smile.gif

20.09.2005 22:22, гость: y

I didn't see any trash cans on the windows. There is a version that on some floor work and live gastrobeiters on bags of potatoes in which this fruit fly originated. Or something in the attic.
They are very tenacious, on Monday night it was 0 degrees, I was already rubbing my hands, and they huddled together like penguins (I can see through the glass) and preserved the population. I'll try to hang out the garlic.

20.09.2005 23:19, sealor

Well, so that the drosophila goes on a squat, this is what a short one there is!! smile.gif
In general, this front sight is similar in size and appearance to the image?

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21.09.2005 8:35, Yes

Well, so that the drosophila goes on a squat, this is what a short one there is!! smile.gif
In general, this front sight is similar in size and appearance to the image?


Very similar. eek.gif One more question. Will chemical treatment of the window frame from the outside help? Will it scare you away?

21.09.2005 10:27, гость: s

Yes:
"Very similar."

Well, then exactly drosophila. I don't know how it is in Moscow, but we would hardly react to this in the SES. Just a little more and "it will pass by itself"!

21.09.2005 12:56, Helene

It is better to put something soaked in chemicals on the outside(on the windowsill, for example) and contact the SES.We need to find the source of the infection.

As for chemistry , then it's better not to open the windows. It's going to stink!
As for the SES - firstly, they really won't go to this, and secondly, it's not a fact that there is a removable source of infection. For example, we have apple trees growing under our windows - it looks like the fly agaric breeds on carrion. Well, then-SES should cut down the square? tongue.gif
It's better, I think, to be patient - to vacuum as it accumulateswink.gif, and in the fall the problem will resolve itself: we have already resolved it, the fruit flies have disappeared.

24.09.2005 11:22, Dmitrii Musolin

can't you put a grid on the window pane?

26.09.2005 11:24, Helene

can't you put a grid on the window pane?

Through the usual mosquito-crawl.

26.09.2005 11:26, Helene

We need to find the source of the infection.

Now should be the moment of truth. Drosophila in nature disappeared completely. If the fly agaric is still crawling, it means that something is in the house.

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