When you move to warmer climes, you expect to be bothered by bugs. There’s no Jack Frost to kill the critters off. Last night I was bothered by the fattest fly I have ever seen. Fat Freddie was the jumbo jet of flies and danced here and there but mostly danced around me. I’d always thought flies to be more of a nuisance than a menace until I looked up Wikipedia to discover that the humble house fly can carry over 100 pathogens. These include typhoid, cholera, salmonella, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, ophthalmia, and parasitic worms. Well, fancy that. ‘Don’t mess with me, Freddie,’ I warned. ‘I’m fatter than you and I have WMDs.‘ Fat Freddie took no heed. Fearing terminal consumption and a bad case of the runs, I zapped the feckless fat fly with Raid. That was the end of Freddie.
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OMG…I didn’t realise flies carried so many awful bugs…eeeew! I’m not happy about killing creatures but I hate files and mosquitoes so make an exception in their case.
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and the damn flies here in Türkey bite!! I have found that the best weapon against the little critters is a well aimed tea towel!!
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Yep…the tea towel works for me every time!
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I’ll get Liam to practice his swings!
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Well done!! Yes, the tea towel is a method perfected by my husband, if you should ever want a demonstration. Flies in our tropical home only seem to appear (out of nowhere) at meal times. Ugh. Mosquitoes are our constant plague, and they bring dengue fever etc…
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Pig Pen 2!
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If its in my house or garden it dies !
Although I did stop my car to let a snake cross the road infront of me.
i was severly reprimanded by locals who said it could bite a child .
My grandchild ! So, sorry snake never cross my path again .
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Flies, mozzies and cockroaches out, snakes in.
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ah the biting flies….I even have to spray the dog with “Off” to protect her from them!
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. . no problems with the ‘pathogens’ in ‘Raid’ then? d-Phenotrin; Tetramethrin; no specific antidotes offered there; even the propane propellant is toxic! Fit fly screens – and leave the snakes alone, they do an awful lot of good; certainly more than Johnson & Johnson (or whatever they call themselves these days).
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Clever clogs. Damn you environmental tree-hugging emikoys. So what’s in the stuff the council spray with streets with? (I think it’s mustard gas).
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Yep, tea towel.
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Aww..poor fat freddie. I hate flies! They are beastly and crawl on everything.
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Fat Freddie has a lot of relatives !
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