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This is aimed at the UK only, i'm afraid.!!!!

Has anyone noticed the infestation of HoverFlies lately.
Last night, I blasted my conservatory, with RAID, and ended up sweeping over 30 of the damn things.

Looked in the back garden this morning and they're everywhere.
All over the flowers, all over the pool, the garden furniture. It's like a scene from some movie :-)

Does anyone know if there is something you can spray around that wipes these little annoying ******s off the face of the earth.???

I can handle a few but this is almost intimidating. :lol:
 
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Your conservatory may get over run with aphids as aphids, are a food source for hoverflies and the larva of hoverflies eat aphids also
 
Darnun said:
This is aimed at the UK only, i'm afraid.!!!!

Has anyone noticed the infestation of HoverFlies lately.
Last night, I blasted my conservatory, with RAID, and ended up sweeping over 30 of the damn things.

Looked in the back garden this morning and they're everywhere.
All over the flowers, all over the pool, the garden furniture. It's like a scene from some movie :-)

Does anyone know if there is something you can spray around that wipes these little annoying ******s off the face of the earth.???

I can handle a few but this is almost intimidating. :lol:
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That`s right get another can of sheeite out of the cupboard and spray it into the atmosphere :shake::shake: :cuckoo: A bit of education dont do no harm ;) http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-28_hover_or_syrphid_flies.htm
 
:shake::shake: they do no harm whatsoever.............. much less annoying than many people!

They also make great subjects for a camera lens..........
 
Not seen a increase of hoverflies up here but Bloody ants YES!! was standing at the end of my path near garden gate talking to someone on the street, thought to myself midges are out in force tonight thinking I can feel midges up my trouser legs. Looked down and my feet were covered in ants and loads had crawled up inside my trouser legs, cleared them all now but still feeling bloody itchy, looks like a visit to the garden centre tonight.
 
We're the same , and I blast them also ,the kept landing on my granddaughter ...
 
Yeah I knew I would get some people coming back from the hoverfly conservation society and I respect your views but when I have a 4 year old and a newborn, it isn't funny.
Our main dining table is in the conservatory....we eat in there!!!!!!!

A few I wouldn't mind but there were loads. I know they do no harm but that many flying around your main eating area is too much.
I did try using a tea towel first to help them out the doors but they weren't having any of it.

Rich, I appreciate you obviously have your views on aerosols and insect life but I didn't want to get in to an argument about that. I don't appreciate you suggesting I am stupid and uninformed. I am sure, if you had rats around your kids you'd soon do something about it.
If your only option was to poison them you would......Anyway, I don't want to get in to that sort of talk. That wasn't what the thread was about.
 
So you sprayed nasty chemical insect killer all over the room your kids eat in? That'll do way more harm than a hundred hoverflies.
 
Rather than killing everything that causes a minor inconvenience why not put up a bead curtain at the door and netting over the windows.

Also think about what the RAID is doing to your four year old and newborn. A wee bit of dirt from a hoverfly is going to be a lot less harmful than a lung full of insecticide.

If you really must kill all the insects that enter your home look at getting an insectecutor like they have in butchers shops etc.
 
Sigh!!!!! Here we go.......
Not quite Dean. This was last night, so I left them for a while and then went in, swept them up and cleaned down the whole place with Antibac.
My concern was the next morning, when the kids actually did eat in there but, of course they wouldn't have done, if they were still flying around in there.

Mike, fair point but I have nothing against the odd few insects. I don't normally go round killing everything that enters my house. I'm not that bad but this was like an infestation. That's different to me.
 
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I still wouldn't use any form of aerosol insecticide. I nearly ended up hospitalized when my wife decided to try and kill a wasp with it when I was in the same room. It felt like I was having an asthma attack.
 
Hahaha Mike, I feel for you there. As much as I hate the thought of an infestation, I would never go as far as to cause harm to any of my family.
I was the only one in there and kept the doors closed, so it was ok.

OK I think this thread needs to stop before it becomes more about individual ethics and morals than how to get rid of something for me :-)
Thanks for everyones input though, even if it is anti what I did. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. :-)
 
not a member of the hoverfly conversation society, but I do understand the importance insects have in well pretty much the entire food chain............ and the threat against the honeybee has potentially devastating consequences.........

Rats though - completely different example...........

So, if you're getting annoyed at us saying "noooooooo" just what was the point of your OP, as I read it as "I've got lots of beasties, so I killed them all. Mwhaaa haaa haaaa. does anyone else have beasties?"
 
Apologies Darren as I did not really mean to insult you :thumbs: But whilst I am not from any Hover or any other protection society I am against spraying stuff in the air. I too do not want to make an arguement of it but on a serious note aerosols are not the answer and do no good to the respiratory system of you or your children, same as the smelly things that plug into your wall sockets a give a breath of Pine Forest " Yeh Right! " Rats, well yes I have lived a brought up three healthy kids where rats were in the area. On average there are Rats livin within 3mtrs of where you or anybody else live.

Ants :thinking: Ants are the ones to watch out for, I reckon they are preparing for Doomsday :rules: The total number of ants on Earth has been estimated as at least one quadrillion.
This is 1 x 1015, or one thousand million million. The total biomass of ants has been said to exceed that of all other macroscopic animal species combined. Who am I to argue that :shrug: The thing is Darren different people are either scared of or detest different things when it comes to creepy crawlies and I wonder what would happen if we all decided to wipe out those things which we do not like for whatever reason. Another example of Man exterminating something simply because he either does not understand or does not really care :shrug:
 
Hoverflies - a great way to hone your macro focusing skills...unless they're dead, then it's too easy :lol:
 
Hey lay off the hoverflies, you could at least have packed them off to Scotland. They seem to have arrived late this year and after several days of rain they have disappeared again. I could have done with your 30!!
 
Bloody loads of them getting trapped in my conservatory this year. Really cute things though I think, I usually manage to catch them by hand and release them outside.
 
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