where do house flies go in the winter?
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cluster flies sometimes hide out in the nooks and crannies of a warm house or barn over the winter, venturing out to fly around only on milder winter afternoons.\n\nOutdoors, the house fly will die with the onset of colder weather. However, it can over winter indoors if a source of food is available.
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Kill them on a cool night or before dawn when it is coldest.  They are least active at that time and will all be in the nest.  You should be able to find an aerosol or at the home supply and hardware stores specifically for wasps.  Don't dispose of the paper hive during a hot time of the day because there is no guarantee that they will all be dead.
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they hide in places you never look in.  flies, like many other bugs, are active during daytime when it is warm. at night, when it is cool, they rest in sheltered areas like under the roof, in pipes, on the walls.  moths and other night bugs do the opposite.
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They group together within their nest/mound and go into something called "diapause," which is the insect equivalent of hibernation. Their bodies freeze and they just shut down and become active again once the temperatures reach a warm enough level.
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There are very big differences depending upon species.\nMonarch and Red Admiral butterflies live long enough to migrate.\nSome butterflies hibernate, e.g. Red Admiral.\nThere are many species that can only survive the Winter as dormant pupae.\nSometimes there can be two or three complete life cycles within a season.\nOccasionally the life span of the imago (the 'butterfly') is indeed very short but remember that insect life cycles involve:\negg - larva (caterpillar) - pupa (crysallis) - imago.\nGenerally, only the pupal stage overwinters.
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I have lived in MANY places.  Insects were always most prevalent in hot and wet places, followed by warm and wet, followed by warm and dry/wet.  Most cold places had few insects whether wet or dry.   Deserts cold at night, hot in day and very dry have very few insects, often blown there by winds and dying.\n\nConclusion:  Insects like warm and wet.  Either colder or dryer detracts from this, but cold is the worst.\n\nSO, that is why more insects during summer, EXCEPT that there will be fewer in places that are drier.  Yes?\n\nPlants which they eat grow best during summer.  Not all insects eat plants.\n\nSome insects are very adaptable.  There are zillions ! of mosquitos in Alaska, but they are causing trouble after the snow has thawed and there are many pockets of water being warmed by extended summer daylight.  One more proof of warm and wet, this time for a non-plant eater.\n\nAlaskan mosquitos attack herds of carribou and moose and people driving everyone absolutely nuts!
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They can go anywhere they won't get wet. This includes places like the bark and leaves of trees, porches, grass, or anywhere else. But I suspect many just die, and it is the babies that live on. Flies don't live very long anyways, and the larva grow up fast. If a generation of flies die, the next will be around in a little bit.
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Yes they do. Look out below.\n\n*edit* I grew up in Wyoming along a migration root for Canadian Geese. There were some species that would winter in our lakes as well so we had geese year round.\n\nI can tell you that they poop in flight because through the years many of my friends and myself had our cars dive bombed while driving. A few had the misfortune to get hit themselves.\n\nIt doesn't hurt, goose poopie is soft, like a grey green pudding. It's just embarassing, especially when it's 10 degrees outside and it literally becomes a "steaming pile" on your head.\n\nElaborate enough for ya?
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One common bug with that colour pattern is called the box elder bug.\n\nThey feed on the leaves of maple trees (also called box elders), and can become minor nuisances when they start moving into people's houses in the late summer and fall, looking for a place to spend the winter.\n\nThey'll bunch up in big masses in crawl spaces, attics, behind the walls, or in unused rooms and closets.  \n\nSometimes, if it gets warm enough in winter, they'll wake up and go for a wander.  For some reason, they usually wait until company is over, and then they go slowly buzzing across the room before landing on your bosses' wife's hair.\n\nThe best way to take care of them is actually a vacuum cleaner.  They're perfectly harmless, and can be sucked up and disposed of with ease.\n\nHere's some pictures http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/bugsfaq/boxeld.htm\n\nhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/images/boxelderbug.jpg
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It depends on the insect. Some die off leaving eggs behind to hatch next season (like the Praying Mantis). I have heard some critters replace the water in their bodies with glycerin so they don't freeze during the cold months.
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All flies are potential carriers of disease. Too many of them in a home suggests poor hygene. \nLook for magots (fly larve') they will show you where their food source is, that's what you'll need to clean up in order to get rid of them.
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Catch it in the WINTERs>>>>>
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Mosquitoes, and all insects, are like cold blooded animals even though they do not actually have blood. They are usually whatever temperature the surrounding air is. At lower temperatures, insects will become inactive because they can no longer use their legs or wings. This is why if you go for an early morning walk when it's still chilly but the sun is up, you'll see bees "waiting" inside flowers, as if they're dead, and you'll see flies and dragonflies sitting on stems and rocks motionless as they absorb heat from the sun so that they can move quickly again. It's actually quite funny to watch since they are moving so sluggishly!
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No. People get sick more in winter because they're indoors more and breathing the same air with sick people.
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A fly. Whats the point, The just buzz about all day and Poop everywhere (although there poop is too small for the human eye)\nPlus!\n\nThey land on dog poo, then they fly into your house and land on all kinda things like your chopping board and dinner table! Urgh!\nTheve gotta be the worlds most useless animal!
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They are likely following air currents-Flies dont think about where they are going-they dont really "think" at all, in terms of making decisions.  THey just have simple reactions to ari currents, heat, light, and chemical sensations (food)-If they are circling, its because there are air current moving in a circular motion, and they are following those.
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It's too cold for them up north. We get all the birds down here, in the Winter time. Actually we have birds all year round. Just different ones in the Winter.