The flies
Nov 18th 2009, 6:59 am
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The flies
Is there anywhere in Australia where there are few flies?
Nov 18th 2009, 7:04 am
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Re: The flies
Relatively few here - it's too cold for too much of the year. We didn't put the crummy flyscreens up that were supplied with the windows and don't miss them.
Mind you, Australian flies are bloody persistent - they don't take no for an answer and find every orifice you have to crawl into/up.
Mind you, Australian flies are bloody persistent - they don't take no for an answer and find every orifice you have to crawl into/up.
Nov 18th 2009, 7:05 am
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Re: The flies
Unfortunately I think flies are something you just have to get used to.... thing is you always forget how bloody annoying they are until they start coming back!!!
Nov 18th 2009, 7:07 am
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Re: The flies
Robocan's are good!
I find towns less fly blown, likewise coast .... here we've got about 2000000 each but you get used to them!
Mozzies and tiny ants drive me more mad when we're in Cairns!
I find towns less fly blown, likewise coast .... here we've got about 2000000 each but you get used to them!
Mozzies and tiny ants drive me more mad when we're in Cairns!
Nov 18th 2009, 7:32 am
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Nov 18th 2009, 7:41 am
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Re: The flies
Mawson is renowned for the year round absence of flies.
Nov 18th 2009, 7:52 am
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Re: The flies
Hardly any around here (halfway up the hill from Coogee Beach, Sydney).
We might get a week or so of annoying flies around Christmas time - but the rest of the year, none at all.
As a rule, this area of Sydney doesn't suffer from flies much. None of the houses I've lived in around here (eastern suburbs) have ever had fly screens fitted
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We might get a week or so of annoying flies around Christmas time - but the rest of the year, none at all.
As a rule, this area of Sydney doesn't suffer from flies much. None of the houses I've lived in around here (eastern suburbs) have ever had fly screens fitted
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Nov 18th 2009, 8:51 am
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Re: The flies
Not many here, providing you stay away from waterways but then it's not flies it's midges. I've never noticed loads of them anyway, maybe it's just my parallel world, or me being unobservant 
Nov 18th 2009, 9:12 am
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Re: The flies
I've only been here (Brisbane) a couple of months, but there are far fewer flies here than we had in the UK during the summer. Altho' the few flies that I have seen were big ones which bite 
(as I was informed by an aussie colleague, with an evil grin on his face .. you know the grin caused by winding up an innocent UK import about all things spider, snake, shark and croc related!!!) 
(as I was informed by an aussie colleague, with an evil grin on his face .. you know the grin caused by winding up an innocent UK import about all things spider, snake, shark and croc related!!!)
Nov 18th 2009, 9:15 am
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Re: The flies
"Garçon, le mouche dans ma soupe!"
"Non, monsieur, la mouche"
"Mon Dieu, you really have wonderful eyesight!"
"Non, monsieur, la mouche"
"Mon Dieu, you really have wonderful eyesight!"
Nov 18th 2009, 9:32 am
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Re: The flies
Nov 18th 2009, 9:40 am
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Re: The flies
It's the little black ones - possibly blow flys? That do my nut. They are attracted to sweet (I think), so just have a glass of white wine...
