I swear I've had this one fly buzzing around my apartment for the past week. It's one of those clingy little beggars that follows you around, flying around your head, buzzing past your ear, landing on your neck and arms. It checks out everything I eat and crawls around my desk to the left and right of me so that I keep seeing it in the corner of my eye. I've tried swatting it, flicking elastic bands at it, flicking it. I've even tried trapping it in a trash bag but its super fast fly reflexes mean it reacts almost as soon as the thought pops into my head. 
 
I use screens so usually I'm good about keeping the little douchebags out but I guess I was leaning out of the window the other night to watch a hobo fight and he must have scooted in then. I don't want to leave the window open for him in case his fly buddies get any ideas about joining the party, and besides flies have an annoying tendency of flying in every direction except the exit so he probably wouldn't go outside anyway. So I'm thinking I'm just going to have to endure its lifespan. How long do the little bastards live? 

An easy way to get rid of the fly is to spray him with some water (like in an old windex spray bottle ) 
The fly will not be able to fly , then you do what you want to do after that ….
 
 
Kenny 

Dunno about New York flies, but the ones in Scotland can fly in the rain.
 
It'll be coming to the end of it's days, but kept alive longer by the nice warmth of your apartment. Got a clear plastic ruler or similar? They make the best fly swatters, the fly can't see it coming. Learned that when I was signmaker, with plenty of clear perspex lying around.

 
 

jamesg1213
Dunno about New York flies, but the ones in Scotland can fly in the rain.
 
 

 
 
James,  I bet the flies in Scotland can also ride a horse a lot better than I can ..
 
I got into squirting them with water back in the day because it worked pretty good on them New York flies ..
 
Kenny
 

Man who catch fly with chopstick , accomplish anything .
 
 
 
Kenny

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jamesg1213
Dunno about New York flies, but the ones in Scotland can fly in the rain.
 
 

 
 
James,  I bet the flies in Scotland can also ride a horse a lot better than I can ..
 
I got into squirting them with water back in the day because it worked pretty good on them New York flies ..
 
Kenny
 

Yeah, you can see 'em, riding bareback in the rain, holding little tartan umbrellas .
 
End of June till end of September the grass flies are the worst for me. They love it when I'm mowing grass, following me like seagulls after a fishing trawler. I can stand the dreaded midgies, but not those things. I spray my cap with Raid which keeps 'em at bay for a couple of hours. Luckily I don't smoke...

Not something I'm generally proud of talking about (other than after a few beers with my buddies), but I became very proficient in taking out fly's and other flying insects with rubber bands. I suppose it's from doing this a lot in my teenage years and all the rubber band fights we had with friends.  
 
It does splatter the insect to bits though....oh, and probably not a good idea to shoot it while it's on someone's face.     

Hi,
 
Every now and then there is a funny one ... and on a show about 15 years ago, it was about commercials from Europe, and this French one was too much ... it had a big muscle guy talking about this spray that took care of all bugs, including flying bugs, and what a great product it is. Towards the end, a fly is starting to interrupt his delivery, and he takes the can in his hand, and whacks it on the counter and kills the fly!
 
End of commercial.

I had one of those little bas-tards torture me for 3 days last week