Is there anywhere in Australia where there are few 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.

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!!!

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!

No.

Mawson is renowned for the year round absence of 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 .

Yep, here in South Tassie we don't have a problem with them, the odd mozzies in the evening only. Just a bit cooler than the rest of Oz!



Sam

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

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!!!)

"Garçon, le mouche dans ma soupe!"

"Non, monsieur, la mouche"

"Mon Dieu, you really have wonderful eyesight!"

Try going for a walk a few miles out of town and then come and tell us that.

Try going inland a bit.....you will find plenty.

Give 'em time, the Brisbane ones are still plannin thei campaign

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...