Eileen wrote:


Thank you Harry for your informed and detailed reply I much appreciate
it, but to be honest I have been worried all morning since reading it.
It all just seemed so awesome.

I'm sure that your situation is less than what I experienced. After
my Hitchcock-like experience I became more sensitive to flies being
around me. Now, at the first sign, I'm out there screaming "Die fly,
DIE!" as I swat and set traps. :-)

Another thing I forgot to mention is that if a dead animal is the real
source, the flies will only last a limited amount of time.

What surprised me was that a few years ago I replied to a newspaper ad'
from a local farmer selling horse manure. I for some silly reason was
thinking that a trailer load of manure would be like a ton at the most.
You can imagine my horror when I came home from work that day to find
in excess of 6 tons of it dumped at the front of my house! The amazing
thing is despite it taking us weeks to shovel/wheelbarrow and spread the
manure in my garden we were never bothered with the flies as we are now.
(p.s my husband will never let me forget this episode, he says next time
I'm on my own!!)

LOL, we've all done something like that. DW and I decided to take FLP
up on the offer of free mulch from power line clearing. The load
completely filled our double car driveway. Worse yet, the molds from
the leaves and malleluca cuttings got into the air when I used my home
mulcher to reduce the size of the chips. It laid me flat on my back
for three months, and I'll NEVER get near mulch like that again.