I woke up to about 50 flies in my front window. How could this be? I have no food out or anything like that?

Question

Could there be something dead outside? Can they get in through the air conditioner?

Answer 1

Well, this is an educational opportunity to remind ourselves of things we had forgotten in grade 5. Lol.

They may have come from your neighbors, and if you live in a farm or where there is uncovered garbage containers outside, etc, this occurence can be explained by this article.

One female fly can give birth to 500 flies in 4-5 days. Read on.
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The House Fly - Life Cycle
# These are the four distinct stages in an average house fly's life: Egg: Depending on the size of a female house fly, she can lay up to 500 eggs in a three to four day period. Eggs are white in color and are usually less than half and inch in size.
# Larvae: Larvae are commonly referred to as maggots. Maggots emerge from the eggs within eight to 20 hours of being laid. Larvae begin eating whatever they can find in the area they were laid. They prefer warm, moist environments to grow in.
# Pupa: After about four to 10 days, a maggot will move to higher, drier ground to move into the pupa stage of its life. This process take about three to six days and is where the maggot encases inself in a reddish-brown skin where the final stages of development take place.
# Adult: Once the adult house fly hatches from the pupal stage, it has an approximate life span of 15 to 30 days. Females are able to start producing eggs after two days of life and will continue to lay eggs for about a month. Female house flys are usually larger than the males.

The House Fly - A Day in the Life
You will find house flies pretty much everywhere there are humans or animals. Flies love things like garbage, manure and anything else that left out in a warm environment (like the chicken you left thawing on your counter all day). House flies don't feed off of human flesh - they get their nutrients from spitting saliva on their food, which liquifies it so they can suck it up with their sponge-like mouths.

The House Fly - Did U Know?
# House flies can travel up to six miles in 24 hours, but they usually prefer to stay close by their breeding ground.
# The easiest way to keep flies out of your home is to keep things clean. Don't leave food lying around, make sure you take out the garbage on a regular basis and wipe up messes right away.
# Fly investations are often found on farms because it is hard to keep them from breeding in the readily available manure.
# House flies like to perch on things like wire or string.
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And no they cannot get through air conditioning unit filters.

Answer 2

OK...SO weird!!!!!!
Yesterday morning, when I woke up and opened the blinds around my home, I noticed that I had about FIFTY flies on the window near my dining room table!
1) We do not eat at this table...we eat in the kitchen.
2) They were all adult flies
3) The weather stripping and caulking is all in tact.

Needless to say, I was extremely grossed out, and commenced to vacuuming the flies. They were very sluggish and didn't put up a fight. I released them a couple blocks away so they wouldn't come back "home."
Tonight when I went to close my blinds, there were another TWENTY flies!

WHAT DO I DO?????
I am so grossed out, I could be sick!
My home is clean, I do not have houseplants, there is no standing water inside or out, and there is no trash or messes on my counters.
AND, something else that is weird, is that these flies are strictly in this dining room window...they aren't flying around the house, nor are they in any other windows????

ANY clues OR remedies???

(By the way...SO freaky that someone else has this problem! I feel for you! I, like you, feel like I am in some horror movie experiencing the plague!)
I live in Texas...where do you live Sharon?

Answer 3

You must have a dog or cat leaving generous deposits out there. Put up a fly strip or two and clean it up and you should be good to go.

If they're in the house, then a fly depositing eggs somewhere and they hatched. Again, find the source, possibly something in your kitchen cupboard.

Answer 4

I have actually encountered that a couple of times (not recently--whew!). It *was* like a horror movie. My theory at the time was that they somehow hatched out of a houseplant, maybe one that had been outside for a while and brought back in.

Answer 5

Do you live in the country? If you do they probable came from some nearby barnyard. Or mabye it was cold last night and they wanted a warm place to come into.

Answer 6

If you have any Propane appliances, then check you propane tank, if it is low on propane then the mercapiten that is put in propane to give it smell will attract flies.The flies will smell it long before you do, also ckeck all your pilots.

Answer 7

wow, sounds like something out of a horror flick.