Why do housefiles love people?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I’ve got one of those big end of the season flies buzzing around inside my house. I would think the kitchen and the half full trash can would provide him with far more entertainment than me , but no, he continues to buzz my head and tries to get close to me at the other end of the house.

I shave and shower and don’t think I smell like a good bet for fly (vs the trash can) , but still he persists. I will eventually get annoyed enough to stalk and kill him, but am letting him alone for now as my back is giving me trouble.

Why? Are flies lonely? Do they want company?

2

just the minutest odor of rot and decay can attack them, far less then you can notice. rot and they will come.

3

I don’t know the answer to your question, but I do know that when I have flies buzzing around in the kitchen, and I go get the flyswatter out so I can smack them, they will all mysteriously disappear. So maybe get the flyswatter and keep it nearby and they won’t bother you.

4

I think it wants to either eat you, drink your blood, or lay eggs under your skin. It’s nothing personal.

5

Because we are warm and are a source of protein, which they require to breed. They are like flying vacuum cleaners and can only suck up stuff off our skin or from our tears to help them along.

6

Nothing to add, but having the exact same experience. I feel like Pig-pen.

7

She wants to lay her eggs in you.

I suspect the flies that follow people indoors are different from the flies buzzing around the garbage. Every fly that I’ve squashed indoors has had… Go squash one and see for yourself, but make sure you have a strong stomach first.

8

I must know. I have no handy fly.

9

maggots crawl out

10

I’d say it’s because we’re all full of shit.

11

Seriously? I have never, in my entire life, had this happen. And I’m somewhat of an ace with a flyswatter.

12

If you are very quiet, I bet you can hear his high-pitched voice yelling, “Help mee!! Helllp mee!!”

13

Do you inspect the fly after it’s squashed? I’ll try and get a video the next time I kill one, but that may not happen for a while.

14

Flies lay eggs. What flies bear live maggots?

15

He may want salt from your sweat.

16

I don’t know about in-house flies, but I’ve gotten the vague impression that outdoor flies, encountered on the hiking trails, seem to be territorial. (Maybe even protecting their territory?)

What I’ve noticed is that a big horsefly-like critter will harass me by buzzing around, and following me along the trail for a ways. But after following me for a short way, they will leave (or maybe stay behind). I’ve gotten the impression that they stay within a short distance of their “home territory” and will be less likely to continue chasing you once you leave their turf.

The above is all just a rather vague impression I’ve often gotten from the behavior of flies in the wild. I don’t know if it would apply to your typical indoor domesticated pet houseflies.

17

I know, yet I’ve seen them crawling out. I can’t figure it out myself.

18

Flesh flies?

Quote taken from here: http://insectexpertphd.com/flies.aspx

19

On my jogging route is a field covered in cow pats with clouds of flies above them. As I run through, all of the flies chase after me, to the point where I will have a vast cloud of, certainly hundreds, possibly thousands, of flies chasing me. If I let them catch me they just buzz around me and don’t really do anything.
Evidently I must smell more like shit than a cow shit.