Today I was sitting in my office – decorated in post-modern warehouse – with pretty blue walls, a rather comfortable wicker chair and a fabulous flat-screen monitor and who walks in but the Terminex guy. I’ve heard good things about the Terminex guy from those who have worked here longer than I. He hates bugs, doesn’t mind mice, despises rats. An exterminator who has a passion for his job – you don’t see many of those these days.
Our Terminex man was called because my boss thought he smelled dead mice in the ceiling and walls. I just thought the smell was normal as I haven’t been here that long and who’s to say what’s normal here? As Mr. Terminex examines our drop ceilings for ‘droppings’ he asked if I had seen any flies. What a question! I respond with a ‘Yes!’ and say in fact, I have noticed a few flies the last couple of weeks and the day they annoyed me most was Thursday, August 4th. He says, and this is where it gets gross, that the flies show up when the carcass of the mice are decomposing, hence the reason he does not see mice carcasses in the walls and ceilings.
So not only was I bothered by ridiculously large flies for about 2 weeks, I was actually sitting below the dead carcasses of mice.
Lord Have Mercy….I don’t know where this Terminex guy is from, but I think he needs to go back to extermination school. I had a mouse or rat die in my walls and you cannot miss the odor. It is like smelling pot….you never forget the smell. (Not that pot smells like a dead mouse…just that it has a distinctive odor.)
As for the flies, they do lay eggs on the carcass. That is where maggets come from, but he should have been able to find some remains of the little critter. I pulled the attic stairs down one time and the hairy remains of a rat fell out. That is why I do not go in the attic any more.
Get a good can of Bengal roach spray and all your fly, roach, and crawlly problems will be gone for good. Home Depot sells a great mouse and rat bait too.
Got to love the South.