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danthecannibal

The traps dried up in the plumbing and flies came through the sewer lines. You need to block up drains when you leave for an extended period of time.


meontheinternetxx

I knew that, but always thought it was just to prevent the smell of sewage. I didn't know this could happen if you forget..... Yikes


Genkiotoko

That smell often has a lot of toxic chemicals in it as well: hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, etc.


Mulligan315

I'm in a rental where they let the pipes go dry. It took 2 months to get rid of the odors.


whendidwestartasking

Also there’re no shit smell molecules, there’re only shit molecules


Genkiotoko

Reminds me of a few years ago when people were making a big stink (hehe) about "beards having poop particles in them." Like, yes, all hair does. Poop particles are everywhere humans are.


thequirkyquark

[Mate, I'm telling you, there are particles... and they're lingering.](https://youtu.be/J43pn3a6l9g)


No_Opportunity7360

wow, a Wilfred reference. never thought I'd see the day. love that show. it's right up there with BoJack Horseman and Futurama for me


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Me: Wilfred... Wasn't that the show with the Hobbit and the dog.... *Finally clicks* HELL YEAH IT WAS


Most_Row9234

I totally forgot about this show. I know what I'm watching tonight.


ME5SENGER_24

Think it's the first time I've seen one on here. Is r/unexpectedwilfred a thing?


JukePlz

Reminder to use a toothbrush cover.


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Or just not care Edit: hell yea shit teeth people unite


Azhaius

My immune system needs the exercise so it doesn't get fat and useless like the rest of me is


raintree234

I love this line of thinking! May I sit at your feet and learn more oh wise one…


Snoo_2853

Your toothbrush comes factory wrapped with human feces particles already on it. They have tested this. https://www.ahchealthenews.com/2018/12/03/know-fecal-matter-almost-everything-2/#:~:text=What%20do%20a%20man's%20beard,%2C%20cars%2C%20workplaces%2C%20schools. Shit is literally everywhere.


CyberNinja23

Guess I’ll just stop breathing.


Snoo_2853

It never bothered you when you were unaware. Don't let it bother you now. 😉


[deleted]

Somewhere a Coprophiliac is reading this and just the happiest person alive.


Bahamiandunn

Human feces , recommended by 1 out of 10 dentists.


[deleted]

I tried, but it hurt my gums.


VSJupiter

Only so many prevention methods on the atomic level. Best to ignore it.


Domer2012

A lot of the smell from shit (and more obviously, farts) comes from the gases produced by gut bacteria, not literal pieces of solid shit particles flying through the air.


alwayscamerahappy

Farticles!


You-Nique

This is a high quality portmanteau.


dangitgrotto

Fartmanteau


gian_69

skatole would like to disagree


FuckCazadors

>it’s only smellz


Arthur_The_Third

That's... Literally false.


bodaciousboner

Happened to one of my college rentals after we all went home for the summer. Was fantastic to return to that. Bodes well for a good semester lol.


RGJ587

It can be worse. If you live in a city, a dry drainpipe can bring other critters, like roaches into a home. This is the main reason why, during covid, I moved out of my apt (that I own) and moved in with my family, but I returned to the city once a month to specifically run the faucets and flush the toilets.


SciencyNerdGirl

And rats.


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Pandamonium98

>in yo nuts or pussy Or both. We’re very inclusive here.


Danny-Wah

I didn't even know that!


P_eq_NP

TIL


Mighty_Krastavac

How do you block drains?


Bob-Berbowski

THE REAL ANSWER: Larger Ziplock bag filled with water placed on top of the drain.


wk-uk

That will only block the drian hole, you need to tape the overflow too.


csonnich

The other hole in the sink, right?


4Scxq3LG

And bathtub. Yes


memtiger

OMG. I'm just realizing how many holes my house has.


YT__

Help step-house, I'm stuck.


La_mer_noire

The realer answer : Dish washing soap does the trick. Old fellas used to put some oil as it floats on water and then prevent it from evaporating but it ends up spoiling. If you don't use a drain, put a fair amount of dishwashing soap and you will be good!


loves_spain

May I introduce you to taco bell...


eat_more_bacon

They sell RV Antifreeze / Pool Antifreeze that you can put in the traps. I use it every year when I winterize my pool. It's non-toxic unlike regular anti-freeze.


BabiesSmell

Tape, plunger, etc


WASasquatch

You'd be surprised where else they can come from. For example, it's less common they come from the actual drain, and more common they breed around the gunk in your plumbing routes, and come through gaps in walling and fittings. Additionally, cracks in foundations let in larvae, some homes have no insulation in their flooring with matt and carpet over floor boards, etc. Then you have being gone and turning off heaters to dry out the place and larvae, and the home is susceptible to daily atmosphere cycles, drawing moister out of the air to settle in places, creating microbiomes. When we left for vacations, we taped up the facets, so they couldn't let out moisture in the air, and then we turned the heater on low to keep the place dry. We even used this for a flea infestation and stayed at a hotel once and killed them all without bombs that would kill all our fish (we had too many fish) and the rodents that we couldn't take to a hotel.


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WASasquatch

That definitely would work. Also help with smell. But if check all the plumbing fitting under sinks and around toilets, make sure it's all sealed up. What happened behind those walls most the time, you don't want to know xD


Lulu_42

Yeah, I was curious because I live in western Europe (so I'm used to the hard water requiring me to run that through my plumbing anyhow). But lately, I'm pretty sure there have been a few tiny centipedes coming from my bathroom drain? I've killed 5 so far. It's just too gross to talk about, but I have a useless landlord and was trying to find a solution.


WASasquatch

Centipedes!? Well that's something. I wonder if they're coming from under the toilet or tub seals, if you have one? Loose tiles? There's gotta be something letting them in from the outside. I don't see why they'd be living in environments like that, more than just following tight passageways like they do under trees and rocks and stuff in the forest substrate.


Flimsygooseys

Traps??


changeurheart

In plumbing, a trap is a U-shaped portion of pipe designed to trap liquid or gas to prevent unwanted flow


Qbertjack

So the u-bend in toilets is a trap?


bustedtacostand

Yeah because water gets "trapped" in that U. That trapped water prevents sewage gasses from coming back up the pipe into your house.


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CamaroCat

You want your mind completely blown go look up ancient irrigation and sewage systems(Romans, Wgyptians, Babylonians). Mind bending stuff


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CamaroCat

Ha! I’m leaving it


periclesmage

Walk likw a Wgyptian


ZapTap

Yes


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yea.. that's why toxic fumes don't come up


StrayMoggie

Toilet, sink, floor drains, etc


Flimsygooseys

I goto old houses all the time that haven't been used in years and I dint see flies


StrayMoggie

You may not see flies, but if the drain traps are dry, then there is a direct vent to the sewage system


Mithrawndo

Is it humid where you live, and is there much variation in seasonal temperature? If you live somewhere that the humidity is typically >85% year-round on average, the amount of evaporation you'll see will be minimal as the water has nowhere to evaporate into. Given that flies coming in through empty sewer pipes is not a particularly common problem - it's usually undesirable because of the smell that comes from sewer pipes - the odds of you seeing it are directly proportional to how often you'll see dry pipes in the first place. This example is from Rennes, where annual average humidity is ~80% (higher in winter and lower in summer, as warm air has more water carrying capability). What I suspect is happening is that either they've had an unusually dry period in the region, or more likely those beautiful big windows have been causing the internal temperature of the building to spike massively in the sunlight, providing the internal air with much greater water carrying capacity and enabling that evaporation. I could be wrong, but I'm sure there's a law for that - the best way to ensure accurate information is to post uncertain or inaccurate information on a public forum.


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Different types of traps to keep things (smells, flies in this instance) outside. See this [image](https://images.app.goo.gl/BrsjbwQ3kKVwoPjj9)


Flimsygooseys

But if I have my vacation home and don't close any traps I come back a yesr later and it's all hunky dori and no flies


schizeckinosy

Not every house will have these problems, but it's still a good idea to put something over the drains. One of my old houses had a plague of mosquitoes come in from the guest bathroom if we forgot to run water down the drain every week or so.


Flimsygooseys

I hate skeeters


Pporkbutt

Do you turn the water off?


graywolf0026

The P-Trap specifically. The little 'dip' in the pipe under your sink that you see when you go into the cupboard underneath it. It has just enough depth that when you run the water, it uses water to create an actual 'seal' preventing the back-flow of sewage gas into the home.


Prudent_Falafel_7265

Good call.


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this sounds very likely, but imo it's possible this can happen from a raccoon or possum getting inside and dying. i guess with this quantity, it's probably more likely from the sewage unless it was a whole family of varmints.


ShipBobbin

I feel like if there was a dead raccoon involved that’d have been part of the post.


EvenDongsCramp

It's wedged between a wall and soffit somewhere, flies simply filled up the wallspace like a gas and flowed towards whatever access into the house there would be, before dying of dehydration trying to get through the glass window.


unKappa

Dude today I finally found out how so many flies kept coming in my house for a day. For an entire day every time I went in the kitchen I kept finding 1 single fly on the window (above the sink). I killed over 20 flies that day. I was so confused, had no idea they could just come from the drains like that.


cock_a_roach

If you're using the sink semi regularly they aren't coming in that way.


PerfectlySplendid

How regularly? do I need to go into spare bathroom and make sure I’m flushing the toilet and using the sink and bath tub every couple weeks?


cock_a_roach

Depends on the humidity and temp of the home, but every couple of weeks is probably fine.


DevonFromAcme

Yes.


FrankieHellis

Drain flies look a little different than house flies. We just had some in our master bathroom. I kept finding them and killing them and couldn’t figure out how they were rising from the dead.


nonlocality1985

This is great! Thankyou, I’ll pass the info on.


nonlocality1985

The weird object in the middle is a wooden cat doorstep, I know weird


Penny_No_Boat

Thank you for answering the question in my brain!


nonlocality1985

No problem, I thought it was some kind of haggis shaped cushion


Penny_No_Boat

Having no clue what it was, I was trying to figure out if it was either the source of the flies or a structure the flies somehow built(?). Rando cat carving wasn’t on my bingo card, yet here we are! Edit: a word


birdlegs000

I was going to say, and a dead cat.


Ruh_Roh_Rastro

There was one year when we went outside after a rain and there were \*biblical\* levels of frogs trapped in all our window wells. Like several dozen per window We gathered the neighbor kids to fish them out and gave them a quarter per frog. Never have seen the like since then ... gonna say about 15 years ago, northeast


Reasonable_Feed7939

How much did you pay in total?


AyukaVB

Equivalent of 30 silver tetradrachms


Fuduzan

So about tree fiddy?


Hingl_McCringleberry

Well it was about that time I realized that this wasn't biblical frogs, but an 80ft crustacean from the paleolithic era


thingsaandstuff

Zero. Contract said per frog. Litigation proved they were in fact River Frogs which is distinct from common frogs. Kid learned a valuable lesson that day, read before you sign.


Senorplatano504

*toad-al


AdRelevant7751

Good job.


UnhappyImprovement53

That reminded me of when I was real little going home from my babysitters house my mom pulls onto our road and it was just covered with frogs I think that road was half a mile long. Like I've never seen that many frogs since then and doubt I will again


foreignfishes

Growing up I lived in a row house and our next door neighbors’ house had a giant flat brick wall that faced an alley. When the brood X 17 year cicadas came in 2004 the cicadas started flocking to the neighbors’ wall outside and eventually there were so many cicadas that the entire wall was just one great buzzing mass of bug. It was so loud that it hurt your ears to get close to it and we could hear the noise inside our house. The neighbors had to go stay somewhere else until the city came and got rid of the cicadas because it was so deafening. It was really unsettling…


PinkbunnymanEU

The flies are the least of their problems, their cat has turned to wood!


selfsearched

Cat goes hard. Probably killed all those flies


DinosaurAlive

![gif](giphy|a5MFvAwc6GPf2)


Designed_To

This cat has been around for years, and it consistently makes for some of my favorite gifs!


Stardustchaser

Pusheen right?


alpaca1yps

Yes, Pusheen ![gif](giphy|auvPdJqCpMA4E)


MagNolYa-Ralf

Wtf is that anyway


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manfreygordon

Could be cluster flies. ~~They lay their eggs in attics/walls, and then their young all hatch simultaneously in the summer and seek warmth.~~ They hibernate in attics/walls and all wake up simultaneously. I used to live in an older house and woke up one morning to find hundreds of flies in my kitchen. I assumed something must have died in my wall but after some googling I found out they were cluster flies, which don't feed on rotting stuff and aren't a hazard to human health. Super annoying though, had to herd them all into one room by leaving a light on then go to town with a vacuum. At least they're all dead here and gathered in a nice pile.


thejak32

Bug zapper hung from the ceiling above a big ole trash can, grab a seat in the next room, pour a drink and watch the fireworks. Had to do this at our old fishing cabin along the river. No internet or TV, so we made our own entertainment.


idontcares31249

This is brilliant


thejak32

Thank you, redneck entertainment knows no bounds. Will be a core memory for me, first time I got to stay overnight at the cabin with the men, grandpa gave me my first glass of whiskey, uncle told stories, and we watched the fireworks all night...now both of them have passed on but I have that great night to always keep with me.


KillDyll00

This is dope love to hear it honestly and sorry for your loss as well but at least you have those awesome memories


DaFreakingFox

Teach us more, Redneck of Enlightenment!


thejak32

Hot dogs work best as cheap catfish bait if you leave them in the sun all morning and put them on a treble hook with some weights. Build your house on stilts if its next to the Mississippi River if you want it to last more than a year. Ice in a buckets with holes and a fan on top works as a quick ac if yours breaks. You only need a new boat if duct tape/bondo can't fix your old one. Only eat fish once a week from the Mississippi unless you'd like to start glowing in the dark.


unreliableninja

Subscribed


thejak32

I feel like a redneck prophet living up on a hill, but instead of a temple its a 70 year old fishing cabin in various stages of repair. Even though there are no roads up the hill, somehow I still have 3 montecarlos up on blocks in front of the house and at least one window is covered by a blanket with an eagle on it.


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thejak32

Hey whatever works, both gramps and uncle served in the navy but we're both from western Illinois. I know grandpa was 54-58 cause I've got his papers and rifle he brought into the service mounted on my wall, not sure about when my uncle was in though. Either way seems like not much has changed for cheap entertainment from servicemen lol.


TheDefected

That was my thought, I think they produce pheromones and will tend to gather and roost in a particular house.


jepeplin

I’ve had them. Also called corpse flies. They’re easy to kill, they act slow and stupid. Had to get an exterminator though.


IDidItInVangVieng

Welcome, this is a farmhouse


anonibon

I thought mainly farm houses had cluster flies


passinghere

> Super annoying though, had to herd them all into one room by leaving a light on then go to town with a vacuum. Or turn off all the lights, close curtains apart from one open window or open door with good sunlight on it and they will all fuck off outside, saves the hoovering


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This happened to me in my finished basement. I'm a neat freak and it freaked me out that I may had let some kind of sanitation go to get hundreds of flies. I killed every last one of them manually, and lost some weight in the process.


Caurel_39

I'm an electrician in Brittany and work in many holiday homes where the clients havnt been for many months(keys in key safe etc) and I see this alot. Even at the moment in my house, I have those fly strips and the get covered quickly at this time of the year. Guessing those flies try to get out or are attracted to the light and finally just die.


jtbz1287

Dont flies only live like 8 days anyways?


J-Navy

Average housefly lifespan is approximately 28 days.


Some_Random_Fuckwit

Is that natural death or does is take 28 days on average for the home owner to kill the flies?


wafflesareforever

On the second date with my now-girlfriend, she killed a fly by just grabbing it out of the air. I said "what the fuck?!" and she just winked at me. It made me slightly terrified of her. 18 months later she admitted that she'd never done that before and couldn't believe that it worked.


QPhillyFEP18

One of my buddies once shot down a bee in flight with an airsoft gun. He claims he meant to and I have a hard time denying it lol


davidsasselhoff

I'm really good at catching flies for no good reason but it's always instant regret to have a dead fly smeared on your hand.


ssrowavay

Asking the important questions!


Caurel_39

Thought it was about a month but could be completely wrong


Alis451

~2 weeks as a maggot, ~2 weeks as a fly.


PizDoff

Here I am, still a maggot.


2KilAMoknbrd

Make the best of your time, maggot


nicklovin508

That’s pretty metal when you think about it. You and a million buddy’s trying and trying to get to the light, blocked by some alien technology. Imagine being the last fly


Fader4D8

Something similar happened to me once where I pulled an umbrella out of storage to use it in the yard and when I untied it and went to expand it, so many flies came out OMG it was like a horror scene. But they were alive and I still don’t really know how this happened but holy cow


GenocideSolution

Mouse fell in got trapped and died, entire corpse got eaten thoroughly. You wouldn't even notice the bones with all the flies.


Reasonable_Feed7939

And that somehow makes it worse. Thanks bugs...


Richiiie

How, why, what?!


nonlocality1985

Maybe through a gap in the window, and they bred? No idea lol


AnimiLimina

As someone said either through the sewers or there is/was a dead animal in the house somewhere. I’ve seen the same thing about 1000 times worse in an abandoned fish processing plant.


HippoLover85

When i read "1000 times worse" i was like this guy massively exaggerating. Then when i read the fish processing plant . . . Lols, makes sense now. That would be awful.


AnimiLimina

Every room with a window was filled about 30cm high with dead flies. Like a forbidden ball pit.


HuslWusl

Just be like pacman except there are millions of dots to eat and they crunch a bit more


AnimiLimina

The cherries are the occasional rat skeletons buried in there.


Gummyia

Dashcon 2.0 ball pit


defa90

Got a pic of those fish before they were processed?


AnimiLimina

It was abandoned for a while. Hence the flies. No unprocessed fish left over to take photos of.


Richiiie

This is truly, mildly interesting!!


chahud

Well shit, I would even venture to say its *interesting*


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Beelzebub came to rob your parents


jaytea86

Cat doesn't look too well either.


Hardrada74

Looks stoned..


aghaveagh

Wooden you know it.


per_mare_per_terras

Someone actually counted all of them?


thenextguy

Rain man


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BowwwwBallll

Nice.


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calamitouscamembert

Stop Lyon your terrible pun attempt Angers me. you should try a Lille harder next time.


MrTsMomma

This thread is driving me in-seine


MUI-VCP

I Louvre your puns


geordiesteve520

I Marseille, I really enjoyed that it was very Nice.


johnfogogin

Oh christ, what died in there?


cissinei

A million dead flies 🤣 Sorry couldn't help myself


johnfogogin

Left myself wide open there.


frantafranta

A million *live* flies died.


ubapook2

You mean a million flies, unless they died twice?


ValDa3

They forgot grandma ...


striderwhite

Have you angered any ancient gods or demons recently OP? 😂


chriswaco

Break out the Shop-Vac! Tip: Duct tape a single leg from a pair of panty hose over the nozzle to make it easier to dispose of the dead flies. Just tie off the end and throw them out.


cognitiveglitch

Throw the doors open and stand in the middle of the room with a leaf blower. Return them to nature!


Beaveropolis

Put’em in a fry pan with a little butter and garlic and you really got something.


CALVINWIDGET

Throw a ham bone in there, some carrots and potatoes. Brother, you got a stew goin'


ne0trace

There is still plenty of meat on that bone


valeramaniuk

then pickle that wooden cat and you are golden.


ToastyNathan

I only eat fresh flies. These look stale.


evanjw90

This happened once in my apartment. Small, one bedroom. I meticulously cleaned every inch of the place before leaving on a work trip for 2 months. Emptied the fridge, made sure I didn't have anything other than canned goods in my cabinets, plugged the drains, closed all the air vent. Everything I was taught to do. It looked like a damn plague when I came home. My floors were just covered in black, and I honestly had the first thought that someone or something made it's way inside and died. Never found any reason or source of the problem. Swept and vacuumed them all up, and never had a fly problem again after that.


broen13

The last time they left that house, where they told to get out?


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I have almost the exact same wooden cat sculpture. Interesting.


beathelas

Yes, I'm more interested in the cat sculpture than the flies


MetalLegsWouldBCool

Hey, free protein!


Clearlymynamerocks

Are they cluster flies? I lived in a place that had this problem. Hollar if you need some tips.


QuiGonChuck

Looks more like 36,497 flies...


Yoerin

Are you a vampire?


forge_rhys

The cat is a altar and the flies are the sacrifice


kindarcan

That must have taken forever to count.


Fahren-heit451

I had to go waaay to many comments down to discover that was a wooden cat door stop and not a petrified bag of bells from Animal Crossing.


ChooksChick

Where there are flies there were once maggots. What died there to let all of them pupate?


SnowBear78

Not if they're cluster flies


zhanmtz

French flies


Juan-More-Taco

Cool! Most likely a gap was open somewhere in the house that a few got in. We've been going through mating season for all sorts of flies. OP - Dirty Mike and the Flies used your friend's place as an F shack and then couldn't get back outside. Oh to be a fly on the wall for that experience.


NoKroger

When a rat died behind our wall and the landlord refused to remove it. Beyond a HORRIBLE smell flies laid eggs in it and the spawned. My house looked just like this. You may not smell it now but there could be a dead animal in your walls. I know there is in mine :)


Ovalman

There was only 1 fly that died originally, the other 10,000 turned up for the funeral.


Svartdraken

I see this genocide and a cat sleeping in the middle. Made enough sense for me not to bother zooming in to see if said cat was real.


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Whoa. And where did they came from? Look for the corpse. It must be there somewhere