What flies are these in my house?

 

They're black and smaller than house flies. We're getting a lot in the
garden, they seem to fly/hover aimlessly underneath the washing on the line
(like gnats), but never seem to land on anything.

Same indoors, they congregate in the middle of the room, sometimes a dozen
or two, just moving around underneath the ceiling fan, never seeming to land
on anything. They're coming in through an open door (although an almost
full-lenght curtain is across it, the breeze lifts it at times and we
seriously need the fresh air)

I'll try and get a photo later on, but does anyone have any ideas what they
are, and how to get rid of them? I'm getting tired zapping them with my
electronic fly-swat

 

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:12:01 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:


Window screens are the answer, well that is what my American friends keep
telling me!
--
Two people can look at the exact same thing
and see something totally different.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/valerie.copeland

 



It's an option, but they are annoying in the garden, too. They seem to like
hovering at around head-height along the path underneath the washing line,
but I'm wondering where they are coming from and what they eat... as I said
before, they never seem to land on anything like house flies do. There is a
"cloud" of anything between 1 and 2 dozen in the garden and around 10
indoors... but no matter how many I kill, there always seems to be the same
number inside and out!

 

On 01/07/10 13:24, AriesVal wrote:

We have screens, but they don't stop fruit flies.

 



Here's two that I zapped earlier:

http://tinypic.com/r/33mbr75/6