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anyone know what the little "Carion Fly" is called so i can research and possibly eradicate them.
They seem to love melted pinkies and snake poop,and have now moved into my kitchen

I have used blue fly bait in a beer can with a little brew(word of advice Crush the beer can so it aint accidently sipped

or a bread bag with a melted pinky or 2 .Let sit overnight open in the snake room then quickly close the bag and tie it

any other ideas will be greatly appreciated...........Chris

sorry for the dbl post but appearantly ,my first try was temporarily lost in hyberspace.so i tried it again

they are a pain in the cloaca!

I use a yellow sticky trap called EZ trap--it works.

Shop around online--the prices vary greatly.
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Mark

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I don't know what they are called - but they sure have a knack at finding eggs that have gone bad ...
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I decided my old sig was too big.

I guess everybody knows about using a small chunk cut from a no pest strip. We use to put it into one of those 35mm film Tupperware-like containers with a few holes punched in. Now with all the digital cameras, who’d have imagined the day you wouldn’t have half a dozen of those things laying around. They will be hard to find soon!

Thanks, does the pest strip have an attractant?C

No, I don't know about the film containers. Just any pest strip? The sticky kind? Also do you put the film container into the snake enclosure or just set them around? Please, details! Thanks.
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Kevin
www.harrellandsonsherps.com

I’m so old I remember when they were called “Shell” no pest strips. All I remember is they had vapona as the bug killer and it is carcinogenic. I think you can still get them, but they are from Mexico or something. They are like a stiff rubber that you have to cut with a hacksaw or some heavy duty cutters. I use to cut a postage stamp sized piece and put that into the film container. Punch a few air holes like you would a deli cup, and the chemical will retard (probably literally!) mites, flies and all sort of bugs. The whole pest strip is too potent to use in a herp room, you could kill hatchlings with them- they are a little wicked. I never had a problem just using the little piece. The film container prevents contact with it. Wear disposable gloves when cutting it and try not to breath the stuff. Keep the extra in a zip lock baggie. I am maybe showing my age with this, but I’ll bet a lot of people did this very regularly in the old days. It did work.

The easiest way to get rid of them is to do some cleaning... Wash any used dishes laying around, clean up any garbage, pop cans, etc. were they might be breeding... if you have any fruit laying out thats starting to go bad, get rid of it... mainly, the cleaner your house is, the less likely you are to see them...
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
1.1 Cal Kings
1.0 Brooksi
0.1 Red Belly Piranha
1.0 Australian Shepherd

I hate those darn things with a passion but was able to get rid of them. First it took some really dilliegent effort to maintain the room in an almost completely spotless condition for a long period. This meant checking every cage twice a day and removing anything that the gnats could breed in for at least a month. As I was doing this I baited the little bastards with a "melted" pink in the center of a deli cup that was completely sprayed over with provent-a-mite. After this intensive effort they have been gone for several years now.

Thanks Tony,I have been in the snake room most of the day cleaning and of coarse feeding f/t(Oh No).Chris

Swap out substrate and use newspaper

Use long fiber spaghum moss as incubation medium and remove dead eggs immediately. Long fiber moss has an acid that the flies don't like but that is not harmful to your eggs.

Clean....clean...clean

Use the tacky fly strips on your snake room windows...this helps if you've already got them....

If you have them, there is a really good chance...like 99.99% you'll have them for the rest of the egg laying/hatching season

There is always next year to implement the above recommended methods. "Results may vary" but the work pretty good for me.

Russ Bates

I think the key is to be festidiously clean till you've broken theri reproductive cycle. Agree that this isn't likely to happen if you're actively hatching eggs!