Every two weeks or so, almost on schedule, my apartment's been getting an infestation of those large noisy fat houseflies. I don't understand where they're coming from because they're most definitely not breeding in my place. One theory is that they've got a big infestation down on the street several floors below my windows, and they're flying up, but it's not clear how much water the proposition holds. Like, how are they getting in, and why are they bothering me of all people? And also, and this is the most important question of all, how the fuck are they so effing fat like what the heck could they be consuming to gain so much mass?
We've been swatting them regularly for a day or two when the infestation happens and they go away, or die out, whatever may be the case and then come back two weeks later. And then we think we're done with them for a while but no they make a comeback soon enough. It's confounding, because this is the first time it's happened in my three-month stay and I'm lost as to what may have triggered this situation. Is it the weather, which is not too hot now that the heatwave has passed away and the cold season has not arrived, that's ideal for their incubation? Is it possible we brought the starter eggs from somewhere bad and they're hidden somewhere we can't find? Might it be that I accidentally dropped some goop for those pests in a place we don't know about and they've decided to make their villain HQ? Is it the case that we've been opening up our windows a lot more recently, and that is why they've gotten the opportunity to enter the apartment, more so than previously? Or is it possible that somebody is dead or really gross on my floor and nobody knows about it except the sudden fly infestation and the smell's not seemed out it's just the flies until this point?
Who even knows. It's annoying as fuck, and I'm seriously considering getting those anti-bug grenades that I used in my previous apartments to get rid of these critters. Boom, boom boom. Toxic sprays that'll mess the fuck with their nervous systems, spray directly on their bodies. It's not great, environmentally speaking, or from human health perspective but the improvement in peace of mind might be worth the number of days we lose in our life expectancy through the use of those toxic chemicals.
It's a work in progress, as much as I hate to admit it...
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