Flys

[bigpaul]

(24 May 2013, 11:30)Scythe13 Wrote:

(24 May 2013, 11:27)bigpaul Wrote: so we're looking at an infestation of about 6 weeks or so?? until the flies die and the maggots take over.

Or as long as it takes for the bodies to be consumed.

yeah, but at least maggots don't fly! safe to move around then just be careful where you put your feet!

[Scythe13]

Considering a corpse will rot for a long time, and it only properly starts minging-out (technical term haha) after around 5 days (temp dependent) then it could be from 2-4 months!!! Unless it's winter, then you'll be waiting until summer for it to vanish!!!

Yes, but maggots turn into flies.

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It'd be faster to use wild animals or zoo animals to dispose of the bodies.

You'd have to get rid of as many as you possibly could. Otherwise you'll end up with billions of flies all over the place. Trying to stop them coming to your house is like trying to stop the sea.....not impossible, but damned if you think you're going to be able to do it alone.

[bigpaul]

what if we had access to bags of lime?, I believe that stops or slows down the rotting process, that would stop the smell but would it put off the flies?? its probably better just to bug out to somewhere where there are no corpses.

[Skean Dhude]

Kurt Saxon did an article of keeping flys primarily to feed chickens and fish. I think I have it in paper format but it basically was a shed over a pond where the flies couldn't get out and they landed on the pond to exit the shed where they thrashed around and got eaten by the chickens and fish.

Plus as NR says they do a good job cleaning wounds and bleach and antibiotics will only last so long.

[Digger]

Letting nature take care of flies:

We are very lucky in having nesting swallows in the outbuildings.

Early season we sometimes suffer from swarms of flies from animal sheds

As soon as the swallows come home to nest, flies disappeared almost entirely.

[NorthernRaider]

Equally in many northern areas where various species of bat are encouraged the numbers of sabre toothed bastard midges is reduced.

[Tarrel]

(24 May 2013, 15:53)NorthernRaider Wrote: Equally in many northern areas where various species of bat are encouraged the numbers of sabre toothed bastard midges is reduced.

[bigpaul]

when we had "Foot & Mouth" back in the 60s they buried the corpses in LIME PITS.

[Steve]

Flies, birds, foxes, cats, dogs, badgers, rats and ants will soon pick bodies clean. Perhaps the best thing urban dwellers can do is carry the bodies out of town and leave them in hedgerows.

[bigpaul]

(25 May 2013, 09:53)Steve Wrote: Flies, birds, foxes, cats, dogs, badgers, rats and ants will soon pick bodies clean. Perhaps the best thing urban dwellers can do is carry the bodies out of town and leave them in hedgerows.

yeah right, do that and the animals will get a taste for human flesh-what you gonna do then?? best thing you can do is put all the bodies in one house and set fire to it.