"meme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:32:02 +0100, "Mentalguy2k8"
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"Mentalguy2k8" wrote in message
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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

Here's two that I zapped earlier:

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

OMG run their highly dangerous and will kill you if they bite you.

I wish they would, they're irritating me to death!


They are just harmless hoverflies.

I'm not sure, they look more "wasp-ish" coloured in the pictures than my
little friends do.