Thread: FLY'S

Why the apostrophe? One never uses an apostrophe for plurals - the apostrophe is only used for possessive case, e.g., "I hate the greengrocer's apostrophe." or contraction, e.g., "It's a great car."

The plural is flies.

Beause every time I wright flys with out the apostrophe the spell check highlights that it is incorrect & I need to put one in. so get off your un like some.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

In the last week we have had hundreds of large fly's (not blow fly's) in our house & it has got me beat how they are getting in. The house is fully screened . Yesterday morning when we left home at 8am there were no fly's but when we arrived home around 7pm there were around 50 on the kitchen & rumpus room blinds . It took 4 sprays of a very well known fly spray ( in a red can) that says FAST KNOCKDOWN on the can. About an hour later there were about another 20 & that continued through the night until I went to bed around 11.30pm. On waking this morning around 5am there were about another 50 & I am still killing them two & a half hr's later. The strange thing is there dose not seam to be any out side the house so I am thinking they are hatching some were in the house but can't for the life of me work out were.
AS I AM TYPING THIS THERE IS ONE FLYING ACROSS THE COMPUTER SCREEN.

I remember my daughter had this problem a couple of years back & I bought her one of those automatic sprays that that you could set how many times per hour it sprayed seamed to work well so may head off to Woolworths to day & buy one. The fly's are really getting to me.

Have you done a family and pets head count?

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Beause every time I wright flys with out the apostrophe the spell check highlights that it is incorrect & I need to put one in. so get off your

Well, don't write "flys", write "flies" and spell check will leave it alone. (Spell check didn't attempt to change "flys" when I typed this. )

Dead possum in the roof?

We get them every time the slow cooker gets put on
Not in the numbers you have only 2 or 3 (enough to **** you off) and there bloody cunning ******, they see the fly swat and zig zag around the place so you can’t get them
I end up giving up and leave the kids too it

Same deal we can’t work out where the hell they get in, they just magically appear

I reckon your right
Something dead in the roof

Gav

Yep, dead animal in a dark place in the wall or roof. The inside of your house has the only opening that is a source of light to which they are attracted to. That is why they are ending up inside.

Originally Posted by Gav 110

We get them every time the slow cooker gets put on
Not in the numbers you have only 2 or 3 (enough to **** you off) and there bloody cunning ******, they see the fly swat and zig zag around the place so you can’t get them
I end up giving up and leave the kids too it

Same deal we can’t work out where the hell they get in, they just magically appear

I reckon your right
Something dead in the roof

Gav

High viz swatter?