# Those flies in here really suck

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 23, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803 "2005-07-23T15:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803/1 "2005-07-23T15:40:23Z")

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A few weeks ago I ate a pineapple in my room and dumped the waste into my wastebin. Then, not having made this experience before, I forgot about that until yesterday when I started wondering about why there were so many flies in here. Seems a fly laid her eggs into the pineapple, and bingo - hundreds of tiny little young flies. I dropped the garbage bag out (most of the flies were in there), but at least a few dozen of those little beasts remained in my room. I swatted maybe a dozen of them with a newspaper (resulting in my window being blotched with reddish-black spots now). That really sucks.

Trying to get rid of them by hanging up glue strips in here now. Seems to work.

Oh, it’s so annoying.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803/2 "2005-07-23T15:48:14Z")

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What do you call a fly with no wings?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803/3 "2005-07-23T15:51:25Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> What do you call a fly with no wings?

A walk?

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-flies-in-here-really-suck/313803/4 "2005-07-23T15:55:23Z")

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> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> A walk?

Don’t mind if I do.