Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 20:43     Subject: Re:Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Yes…best with Old El Paso hot salsa! Mmm!!
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 10:55     Subject: Re:Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a NOVA thing. No issues in MD.

lol
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 10:51     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
We have so many! It is so gross.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 09:11     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
SO many flies. The biting kind, too. Can’t sit outside peacefully. (Really no mosquitos, though!)
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 18:15     Subject: Re:Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Sounds like a NOVA thing. No issues in MD.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 17:59     Subject: Re:Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Yes! Lots of big flies! Glad I’m not the only one!
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 17:59     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Anonymous wrote:No. Just a surge of MOSQUITOES.
I hate them.


This. No big flies but a lot of those horrible tiger mosquitoes. The ones with the sharp stings and they itch forever once you're bitten.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 16:06     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
OP here - thanks for the confirmation that others are seeing this! Every time I go out the front door, I feel like I'm confronted by 10 big flies within the first 10 steps. I don't recall this the past couple of years.

They must have hatched somewhere, unfortunately. Ugh. No standing water, unless they found a home in the gutter downspout.

Gross! Shoo fly shoo!
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 09:50     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
No. Just a surge of MOSQUITOES.
I hate them.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2022 09:48     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Oh, happy to hear it's not just us!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2022 14:27     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Yep. Been killing a couple a day.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2022 14:20     Subject: Re:Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Yes. This happened last summer, too, and we chalked it up to cicadas (predators were feasting in cicadas, so other bugs were able to explode their populations). But here we are again!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2022 14:03     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Me too. A few have gotten inside too. So annoying.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2022 14:01     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
Yes! It's gross.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2022 13:58     Subject: Anyone have a surge of big flies around their house (external) this past week?
I don't know if it's the weather and all the rain, but in the past week there's been a surge of big black flies outside the house. I've looked for possible dead animals and don't see any. Is this just their time? Like they're in sync with all the crabgrass sprouting?