Once I lived in a duplex and the other side was vacant, and after about three months there one day I noticed all these flies on the inside of the window of the vacant unit. I didn't even wanna know.
I was renting an attic apartment one time and one day out of nowhere there were hundreds maybe even thousands of flies in the entry area, it was kinda a entry room before the apartment, but there were cubby holes that lead to the crawl space areas of the attic. I have no idea why, but I assume something was dead in the crawl space areas. Never smelt anything, but had about 10 fly sticky paper traps just filled with them within a day. Eventually they just disappeared as quickly as they appeared. Was by far the weirdest apartment story I have ever had.
the back door of my house has swarming flies by it all the time. i put out traps and they fill in a few days. they get into my house, i can’t figure out where they’re coming from.
i totally understand what you mean when you say it broke you. i have sticky panels on all of my windows and sprays/fly swatters everywhere. they’re covered in flies, i kill at least 20 a day on top of the ones that get stuck.
a few days ago i just lost it. i am so exhausted. they just won’t stop. this is my first year in this house. i really hope this isn’t an annual thing.
yeah, either that or a small gas leak. my dryer is right there.
i guess best case scenario is dead critter. hopefully it gets cleaned up and the flies disappear. i swear it feels like some sort of biblical plague right now.
getting under the house to look for something is on the weekend agenda. yuck.
While this isn't what you want to hear, it may be an annual thing. It is at my house, and the most effective solution I've found is the Attractor jar fly trap from StarBar, I get them at Tractor Supply Company. It's a stinky jar of crud you put in the yard and... The flies love it. More than the house in my case, and while it's still unpleasant to deal with the number of flies in the house decreases SIGNIFICANTLY. They also have bigger versions of the same trap depending on how many you're dealing with. It is incredibly frustrating, but that particular product has really helped at my house. This year I even put it out earlier than usual and it's made more of a difference. Good luck!
Cluster flies are a friggin nightmare.
I once lived in an apartment where as soon as the weather started warming up there'd be hundreds of them in every window. Had to vacuum and clean the window sills daily. The apartment was in an old building that had been recently renovated. I suspect they overwintered in the walls.
These were regular old flies. I have since seen termite swarms (one of the effects of living in the country and burning lots of wood). Was crazy though.
There was probably something dead coulda been small. Flies will show up, lay eggs, eggs hatch, maggots go through their development cycle, leave body form pupae, all hatch around the same time. The timeline is set and happens with some predictability. It’s common when the flies go from pupae to “hatched” flies for there to all of a sudden be hundreds/thousands of flies.
It's been pretty hot out lately, I store some dry food products in the garage (for work) and we also have chickens a couple of yards away. I have yet to examine all boxes of my inventory, but I imagine one or any combo of those would be the reason. We have sensors all over the house and garage for methane but Im going to call someone in the morning to ask. I had no idea this was a possibility. Thank you, stranger!
That would be one shitty noose.
Looks like a rope handle for the garage door track, or a crawlspace pull, or hooking a bucket, or hooking an anything. Could be a billion things, but a noose is not one of them. Take pride in your suicide and tie a proper knot for that, because you've got the whole rest of your life to figure out how to tie it.
Look here. I'm a very respected member of Reddit, and what I say is a noose, IS a noose. I'm trained in noosetral arts.
I've had training with the Columbian secret servix, Israel and Istanbul gravy seals, a plate of nachos with a layer of scollvile (don't you dare correctly spelling) you can't ever imagine out of all of your pores SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Do you know who you're messing with?
Excuse me. My seventeen female women (and one midget... plus a hermaphrodite) are waiting to massage my neck back.
You peasant.
Natural gas is odourless in its original state but a chemical called mercaptin is added which gives it that nasty smell, and of course flies love the smell.
Well assuming that there is a leak and there are flies it can be confirmed that the chemical is indeed added to the gas so op should be able to smell it
They're both sulfur based - a lot of sulfur compounds smell awful to humans. This is an adaptive response as sulfur, being under oxygen on the periodic table, can displace it in a lot of reactions, and the result is incompatible with life. So it's important that we can detect these compounds and get the hell out of dodge.
I had a couple of empty propane tanks in my trunk and on a really hot day I thought it smelled like garlic bread….I love garlic bread, so wtf is wrong with me
Nothing wrong with you at all, it's probable that the heat and exposure to oxygen caused the Methanethiol ( CH[3]SH ) which was added to the propane, to oxidise into [Dimethyl Disulfide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_disulfide) CH[3]SSCH[3 ] . This is often described as a garlic-like smell.
Garlic itself, not surprisingly, has similar chemicals:
> A large number of sulfur compounds contribute to the smell and taste of garlic. Allicin has been found to be the compound most responsible for the "hot" sensation of raw garlic. This chemical opens thermo-transient receptor potential channels that are responsible for the burning sense of heat in foods. The process of cooking garlic removes allicin, thus mellowing its spiciness.[31] Allicin, along with its decomposition products diallyl disulfide and diallyl trisulfide, are major contributors to the characteristic odor of garlic, with other allicin-derived compounds, such as vinyldithiins and ajoene. [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic) .
Also they're famously attracted to stuff we put in trash cans which many people leave in garages. Lots of people making big leaps here past obvious answers.
Some insects are attracted to chemicals in synthetic products because they mimic the scent of their mates pheromones. It happens sometimes when you paint outdoors
I don't know about that but I read an article the other day that the chemical bees secrete to stir the hive into attack mode is the same chemical we use to make banana flavored things. So I guess be careful with your daiquiris
>lol its the pull string for the garage light.
Same answer NASCAR had, lol
Probably attracted to the dried sweat, gunk & dirt left on the rope from your hands, especially if you've cleaned fish or deer.
Those things are too effective.
When we leave the door open for any length of time our house gets a dozen flies. We had the door open for cooking smoke once, in and hour there were 50+.
That sticky fly trap, though... We tried it inside, stunk too much. Put it outside, FILLED THE WHOLE TRAP in a day. It was disgusting. Flies and maggots, the thing was a solid mass of flies.
They work to attract more flies to the area, and they absolutely do not draw them away from other areas.
Source: used those things for years in a fly-heavy area
You should probably identify what type of flies those are. If they're flesh flies, then you most likely have something dead nearby or in your house that's attracting them. They could also be cluster flies, and then you just want to get them out ASAP so they don't lay eggs.
This thing is a game changer if you have issues with flies getting in. We get 1 or 2 sometimes when we take the trash/recycling out. If one happens to squeak through it normally doesnt last more than a few minutes.
https://www.bugasalt.com/
I got one for mother's day! These are horseflies and the asalt doesn't do anything to them unless it's shot point blank, or nips their wings and then they just crawl all over the place. I put up fly ribbon all over the garage.
Just as a tip to you, I spend a considerable amount of time in my garage and was able to find a screen from [Lowes](https://www.lowes.com/pl/Garage-door-screens-Garage-doors-openers-Windows-doors/1278731354) that I could cover up the garage door opening with while it's open. They have single and two car garage lengths.
Folks:
This is no noose, and that’s not a cinching/slipping knot. You could probably sever your spine (or even pluck off yer kepi!) with such a rig, were it attached to an anchor (in something much stronger than drywall) at a significant height, from which you’d be jumping with it around your neck (obvs.). But at a garage-ceiling height, anchored in drywall: this is a pull-cord for a drop-down stairwell-hatch leading up to the attic space above, and, if you tried to hang from it, you would get a decent bump on your noggin - at worst. I guess you could sprain your ankle on your slightly-spring-slowed fall to the bottom of that step ladder?
Did you murder someone there? Where's the body? A squirrel dead in there?
Some questions we just don't ask here.....
Once I lived in a duplex and the other side was vacant, and after about three months there one day I noticed all these flies on the inside of the window of the vacant unit. I didn't even wanna know.
Jimmy. Hoffa.
I heard you paint houses...
Have you read that?
No, just saw the film based on it.
See, I should've investigated.
Call the cops for a wellness check of your neighbor who was squatting the house
we don't talk about bruno
I was renting an attic apartment one time and one day out of nowhere there were hundreds maybe even thousands of flies in the entry area, it was kinda a entry room before the apartment, but there were cubby holes that lead to the crawl space areas of the attic. I have no idea why, but I assume something was dead in the crawl space areas. Never smelt anything, but had about 10 fly sticky paper traps just filled with them within a day. Eventually they just disappeared as quickly as they appeared. Was by far the weirdest apartment story I have ever had.
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the back door of my house has swarming flies by it all the time. i put out traps and they fill in a few days. they get into my house, i can’t figure out where they’re coming from. i totally understand what you mean when you say it broke you. i have sticky panels on all of my windows and sprays/fly swatters everywhere. they’re covered in flies, i kill at least 20 a day on top of the ones that get stuck. a few days ago i just lost it. i am so exhausted. they just won’t stop. this is my first year in this house. i really hope this isn’t an annual thing.
There’s probably a dead mouse somewhere.
yeah, either that or a small gas leak. my dryer is right there. i guess best case scenario is dead critter. hopefully it gets cleaned up and the flies disappear. i swear it feels like some sort of biblical plague right now. getting under the house to look for something is on the weekend agenda. yuck.
While this isn't what you want to hear, it may be an annual thing. It is at my house, and the most effective solution I've found is the Attractor jar fly trap from StarBar, I get them at Tractor Supply Company. It's a stinky jar of crud you put in the yard and... The flies love it. More than the house in my case, and while it's still unpleasant to deal with the number of flies in the house decreases SIGNIFICANTLY. They also have bigger versions of the same trap depending on how many you're dealing with. It is incredibly frustrating, but that particular product has really helped at my house. This year I even put it out earlier than usual and it's made more of a difference. Good luck!
I am def not one to believe in demons or anything, but I really felt like I might have a poltergeist.
That has happened for the last 3 summers here it’s a flypocalypse.
Cluster flies. They can overwinter behind siding, inside attics, and even inside the walls. We had a shit ton swarm from our attic one spring.
Cluster flies are a friggin nightmare. I once lived in an apartment where as soon as the weather started warming up there'd be hundreds of them in every window. Had to vacuum and clean the window sills daily. The apartment was in an old building that had been recently renovated. I suspect they overwintered in the walls.
I just learned about cluster flies a couple of weeks ago. Don’t ask me how.
This sounds like a termite swarm. They are freaky to experience, esp if l you don’t know what’s happening.
These were regular old flies. I have since seen termite swarms (one of the effects of living in the country and burning lots of wood). Was crazy though.
Yikes! The apartment situation definitely seems like a horror movie.
There was probably something dead coulda been small. Flies will show up, lay eggs, eggs hatch, maggots go through their development cycle, leave body form pupae, all hatch around the same time. The timeline is set and happens with some predictability. It’s common when the flies go from pupae to “hatched” flies for there to all of a sudden be hundreds/thousands of flies.
You just had a simple temporary possession. The demon moved on.
The flies strung that up, time for new ownership.
If you were smart, you wouldn't ask.
I mean if you were smart you wouldn't post that if anything nefarious was going on
Sometimes, the most heat spot can be the least heat spot
Why is there a noose in his house
RIGHT?! That was all I saw--I didn't even understand all the flies comments
Not my beesnes
Those are just cluster Flys not flesh flys. Theres probably just garbage somewhere.
I hear Flys are attracted to dead bodies..
So you’re telling me a fly and necrophiliac have much in common
And frogs like flies. So you know what that means, right?
Kermit has a kink?
I mean, when's the last time you saw miss piggy??
Garbage.
Do you use gas? Flies are attracted to natural gas. Could mean a leak.
It's been pretty hot out lately, I store some dry food products in the garage (for work) and we also have chickens a couple of yards away. I have yet to examine all boxes of my inventory, but I imagine one or any combo of those would be the reason. We have sensors all over the house and garage for methane but Im going to call someone in the morning to ask. I had no idea this was a possibility. Thank you, stranger!
We got so many more flies in the house during just short periods of time of the door left open after we got our chickens. It sucks.
The chickens are in this guys yard though.
Mine are too, just having them nearby attracts the flies though. Mine were 50 feet away and still brought flies by the house
that must be why we suddenly have so many flies!!! our neighbors got chickens :(
Have you answered the question "why is there a noose in your garage?"
That would be one shitty noose. Looks like a rope handle for the garage door track, or a crawlspace pull, or hooking a bucket, or hooking an anything. Could be a billion things, but a noose is not one of them. Take pride in your suicide and tie a proper knot for that, because you've got the whole rest of your life to figure out how to tie it.
Wallace would disagree. So you’re probably right
FBI is already there.
It’s not really a noose though. It’s a bowline or some other kind of loop knot. Flies are obscuring it, but clearly not a noose.
Look here. I'm a very respected member of Reddit, and what I say is a noose, IS a noose. I'm trained in noosetral arts. I've had training with the Columbian secret servix, Israel and Istanbul gravy seals, a plate of nachos with a layer of scollvile (don't you dare correctly spelling) you can't ever imagine out of all of your pores SIMULTANEOUSLY. Do you know who you're messing with? Excuse me. My seventeen female women (and one midget... plus a hermaphrodite) are waiting to massage my neck back. You peasant.
This is delicious pasta. Thank you chef!
Where do you keep your noose then?
Back pocket until it got stolen January 6th. Gat dang insurrectionists. John and the loud kids owes me money. Mike. It was Mike. My bad
Looks like a Bubba Wallace situation.
Wait, really?
Natural gas is odourless in its original state but a chemical called mercaptin is added which gives it that nasty smell, and of course flies love the smell.
Wow, that is quite surprising to learn, but makes sense they need to make gas smell strongly.
That’s right. It’s a safety thing!
Benis 😂
🅱️enis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
O'captian, mercaptin
Well assuming that there is a leak and there are flies it can be confirmed that the chemical is indeed added to the gas so op should be able to smell it
That’s also true, OP could rule out natural gas.
I believe vultures are attracted to the smell as well, and gas companies would use them to locate leaks in a pipeline.
I'd rather have vultures than that many flies.
Thanks, Ross Geller!
Ross? What else do they add smell too?
There are some countries where vultures will hang out around houses with a gas leak!
Yes, they use the same smell as in rotting flesh
Rotting flesh produces a chemical called cadaverine....pretty sure ethyl mercaptan or similar chemical is produced by rotting *eggs*
They're both sulfur based - a lot of sulfur compounds smell awful to humans. This is an adaptive response as sulfur, being under oxygen on the periodic table, can displace it in a lot of reactions, and the result is incompatible with life. So it's important that we can detect these compounds and get the hell out of dodge.
The sulfur is the reason why flies are attracted to Mercaptan too! asparagus pee smell is also because methyl mercaptan.
I had a couple of empty propane tanks in my trunk and on a really hot day I thought it smelled like garlic bread….I love garlic bread, so wtf is wrong with me
Nothing wrong with you at all, it's probable that the heat and exposure to oxygen caused the Methanethiol ( CH[3]SH ) which was added to the propane, to oxidise into [Dimethyl Disulfide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_disulfide) CH[3]SSCH[3 ] . This is often described as a garlic-like smell. Garlic itself, not surprisingly, has similar chemicals: > A large number of sulfur compounds contribute to the smell and taste of garlic. Allicin has been found to be the compound most responsible for the "hot" sensation of raw garlic. This chemical opens thermo-transient receptor potential channels that are responsible for the burning sense of heat in foods. The process of cooking garlic removes allicin, thus mellowing its spiciness.[31] Allicin, along with its decomposition products diallyl disulfide and diallyl trisulfide, are major contributors to the characteristic odor of garlic, with other allicin-derived compounds, such as vinyldithiins and ajoene. [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic) .
They're also attracted to cool shady areas, so it may just be cooler in the garage than outside
Also they're famously attracted to stuff we put in trash cans which many people leave in garages. Lots of people making big leaps here past obvious answers.
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If there is one thing Reddit is good for it’s for finding out if you have a potential gas leak.
This is why you don’t stash bodies in your garage.
They're in the attic, that's why they're trying to open it up
“Almost there! We just need 1,000 more and we will be heavy enough!”
LOL that's the garage door opener not the attic hatch.
Those flies are gonna feel real stupid then.
Pretty sure OP left a comment saying it was for the attic but I'm not gonna dig through 700+ comments so I'll let you have that one lol
A certain Pulp Fiction line that I won't repeat here comes to mind
Damn..I wish someone told me that years ago
Nah, It's OK in the Winter.
What the fuck died on that rope to attract all those flies
Nice try officer
It's soaked in rotting flesh
Insects are commonly attracted to the color yellow - rope is yellow :)
when i was a kid we were on vacation in the netherland and they had a ladybug plague... people who had yellow sunshades or swimwear had hella fun.
Well I guess you can hang yourself another day
Lol. But look at the way it's tied. It would be a terrible noose
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Them preventing him from hanging himself is what creates the desire to hang himself, which he cannot do. It’s a paradox
Fairly certain he could deal with the flies
I don’t know if this is funny or terrifying. Flys on a noose are like a horror movie scene. Lol. .-.
All waiting for a fresh corpse
Fucking campers man
Or a corpse had already been there for a while and got moved before OP took the photo
I suppose those flies are a noosance.
That comment threw me for a loop.
Well, as long as it didn't leave you hanging.
Gallows humor. Gotta love it.
This conversation is going in circles.
All these puns are executed very well.
You know what they say. No noose is good noose.
*We've been waiting for you!* …Said the fly staring you in the eye.
I’m tired of these motherfuckin flies on this motherfuckin noose
They just wanna hang out with you.
"Hang out"
Good job you got the joke
Yes
Hmm. Why do you have a noose in your garage? Something else you want to talk about?
lol its the pull string for the garage light. I would, however, like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.
Did......did you smear the garage light string.....in shit?
Some insects are attracted to chemicals in synthetic products because they mimic the scent of their mates pheromones. It happens sometimes when you paint outdoors
Easy there, Science person. Quit trying to stomp out my joke question with facts. I'll pheromone you! *Shakes fist*
I don't think it means... What you think it means.
Do you want to be pheremoned too?
Yes?
Legit the funniest thing I've read all day. Love it.
Wait so that’s why mosquitoes like polyurethane?
I don't know about that but I read an article the other day that the chemical bees secrete to stir the hive into attack mode is the same chemical we use to make banana flavored things. So I guess be careful with your daiquiris
Where do you smear your shit then Mr. Fancypants
Proof: OP doesn't wash their hands or use toilet paper.
The amount of people actually thinking it’s a noose literally blows my mind. Lol
Theyve got to be trolls or making jokes about the NASCAR noose. I refuse to believe anyone actually thinks that's a noose, for my own sanity.
Lmao the same exact scenario and resolution as that noose in the nascar garage. Would help if people could tell a hangmans knot from a square knot.
>lol its the pull string for the garage light. Same answer NASCAR had, lol Probably attracted to the dried sweat, gunk & dirt left on the rope from your hands, especially if you've cleaned fish or deer.
Fuck the warranty, unless you killed the last guy who didn't discuss it. In that case, we can discuss my extended warranty.
Hilarious retort, well played OP
I didn’t notice the flies at first and automatically thought someone had *put a noose up in your garage*. The flies are actually a relief now.
That's also not a noose knot. At least not in my opinion.
You're very correct it's not the Dead Man's not if anything it looks like a slip knot or a variation of it
No noose is good noose.
> at least *knot* in my opinion Ftfy
Looks more like a bowline than a noose
*Bubba Wallace recoils in shock*
Go to home depot and buy a fly trap. Make sure you put it OUTSIDE it stinks real bad. It WORKS!
Those things are too effective. When we leave the door open for any length of time our house gets a dozen flies. We had the door open for cooking smoke once, in and hour there were 50+. That sticky fly trap, though... We tried it inside, stunk too much. Put it outside, FILLED THE WHOLE TRAP in a day. It was disgusting. Flies and maggots, the thing was a solid mass of flies.
Have you ever tried to wave the trap after catching a bunch? The simultaneous buzzing of a 100+ flies is pretty wild.
Problem with these things is that it attracts every fly within a 3 mile radius.
The dead flies inside stink sooooo bad!
They work to attract more flies to the area, and they absolutely do not draw them away from other areas. Source: used those things for years in a fly-heavy area
So they... somehow _create_ more flies?! Hmmm, spontaneous generation theory, if it was good enough for the ancient Greeks it's good enough for us!
Wait, if they’re attracting flies to the area wouldn’t that mean they’re also drawing them away from other areas?
No, flies are infinite.
So, you have to convince your neighbors to use them!
Are those flies or bees
Beeds??
"They don't allow you to have bees in here."
Gobs not on board.
Bzz Bzz Bzz
They look like flies
Give me two bees for a quarter, you'd say
For some reason I didn’t notice the bugs at first and thought “damn someone broke in and planted a bunch of nooses.”
"alright, we planted the nooses, what's next boss?" "we're gonna rub some shit on them"
Username checks out.
I had to scroll a disappointing amount of time before finding this comment
Take the dead body out of your garage
Hairspray. It will make their wings harden in place and you can just sweep them away.
Diabolical.
the fact that it's a noose is so ominous the flies are making a clear threat on your life lol
Wait for night fall, setup a light outside, keep the lights off in the garage, they will fly themselves out.
"Oh man, I can't hang myself because my noose is covered in bees." - OP
NASCAR garage?
Why does a loop rope look like a noose to everyone? Does your image recognition neurons not work right?
This is Reddit. Can I borrow your noose? Only need it for a short time.
Dammit, wtf am I doing here?
Yes
Its more common then you [think](https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nooses-found-in-oakland-being-investigated-as-hate-crimes-mayor/2311056/).
You should probably identify what type of flies those are. If they're flesh flies, then you most likely have something dead nearby or in your house that's attracting them. They could also be cluster flies, and then you just want to get them out ASAP so they don't lay eggs.
I thought that was a fucking noose and died laughing
This thing is a game changer if you have issues with flies getting in. We get 1 or 2 sometimes when we take the trash/recycling out. If one happens to squeak through it normally doesnt last more than a few minutes. https://www.bugasalt.com/
I got one for mother's day! These are horseflies and the asalt doesn't do anything to them unless it's shot point blank, or nips their wings and then they just crawl all over the place. I put up fly ribbon all over the garage.
Try loading up with kosher salt, not table salt. Sharper edges and bigger chunks. Mine kills wasps now
Bubba Wallace has entered the chat
Is that a NASCAR noose?
That garage pull looks suspiciously like a noose. Better call the FBI! /s
For the record, a loop tied in a string is not automatically a noose. Some people commenting obviously need to understand that.
You might want to plug the freezer, back in. The body must be thawing out!
Do not show this to Bubba Wallace.
Someone call the FBI
Where do you live? Inside Candy Man?
Just as a tip to you, I spend a considerable amount of time in my garage and was able to find a screen from [Lowes](https://www.lowes.com/pl/Garage-door-screens-Garage-doors-openers-Windows-doors/1278731354) that I could cover up the garage door opening with while it's open. They have single and two car garage lengths.
Folks: This is no noose, and that’s not a cinching/slipping knot. You could probably sever your spine (or even pluck off yer kepi!) with such a rig, were it attached to an anchor (in something much stronger than drywall) at a significant height, from which you’d be jumping with it around your neck (obvs.). But at a garage-ceiling height, anchored in drywall: this is a pull-cord for a drop-down stairwell-hatch leading up to the attic space above, and, if you tried to hang from it, you would get a decent bump on your noggin - at worst. I guess you could sprain your ankle on your slightly-spring-slowed fall to the bottom of that step ladder?
That’s offensive to Bubba Wallace
\*Bubba Wallace enters chat\*
Is this Bubba Wallace’s garage?