OK, What are they!

Steveo · 06-06-2011, 11:38 AM

My camp has been invaded by insects that I can't identify. They are black, about the size of a small house fly and hundreds of them are crawling over everything. When disturbed they do fly but seems to be very short flights, they mostly crawl around. They don't seem to bite.

What is it?

ITD · 06-06-2011, 11:56 AM

Hmmmm, may be a sewer fly.

http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/b...tion/flies.stm

Make sure all your traps have water in them.

ApS · 06-06-2011, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ITD

Make sure all your traps have water in them.

Also, make sure your [sink-drain] traps don't have holes in them!

Dave R · 06-06-2011, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ITD

Hmmmm, may be a sewer fly.

http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/b...tion/flies.stm

Make sure all your traps have water in them.

That's exactly what I think too.

AC2717 · 06-06-2011, 01:02 PM

Oh, I was guessing the Tax man or the inlaws

granitebox · 06-06-2011, 02:14 PM

Also known as drain fly - more wing than body. Do you have any floor drains that my have had the water in the trap evaporate this spring?

Bear Island South · 06-06-2011, 09:01 PM

We had them at our place too, not positve but i think it is a species of the stone fly.

Steveo · 06-07-2011, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Bear Island South

We had them at our place too, not positve but i think it is a species of the stone fly.

That looks like it.

Not sewer fly. Also none in the house just outside

06-06-2011, 11:38 AM	#1
Steveo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 524 Thanks: 47 Thanked 123 Times in 63 Posts	OK, What are they! My camp has been invaded by insects that I can't identify. They are black, about the size of a small house fly and hundreds of them are crawling over everything. When disturbed they do fly but seems to be very short flights, they mostly crawl around. They don't seem to bite. What is it?

06-06-2011, 01:02 PM	#5
AC2717 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maynard, MA & Paugus Bay Posts: 2,573 Thanks: 753 Thanked 354 Times in 266 Posts	Oh, I was guessing the Tax man or the inlaws __________________ Capt. of the "No Worries"

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granitebox Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Steamboat Springs - Bear Island Posts: 157 Thanks: 145 Thanked 81 Times in 36 Posts	Drain Fly Also known as drain fly - more wing than body. Do you have any floor drains that my have had the water in the trap evaporate this spring?

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Bear Island South Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Southboro, MA Posts: 579 Thanks: 75 Thanked 384 Times in 170 Posts	StoneFly We had them at our place too, not positve but i think it is a species of the stone fly. Attached Images

06-06-2011, 11:56 AM	#2
ITD Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro, NH Posts: 2,925 Thanks: 476 Thanked 691 Times in 387 Posts	Hmmmm, may be a sewer fly. http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/b...tion/flies.stm Make sure all your traps have water in them.