I had forgotten how they worked.
Yesterday I met my downstairs neighbor by the stairwell. We chatted about a few things. She was nice enough to give me an extra flyswatter, as we'd both had recurring problems with the little things and she'd bought two.
Today I saw a housefly hovering in my bathroom. It flew up to the window over the shower and I swatted at it. Since I hadn't made contact with it, I assumed that it had escaped. But a second later, its body fell into the tub.
I don't enjoy killing flies, and I wish them a peaceful life wherever their natural environment is. However, neither am I going to let it pass as they invade my space, and this is at least a less stressful way of getting rid of them.
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You forgot how they worked, eh? It sounds like you must have figured it out unless the thing died of fright.
It was nice of the neighbor to give you her extra fly swatter. Anyway, I had to do a google search to see how it is that both of you have houseflies in winter. It turns out they're not all that uncommon per the pest control sites that showed up. Here's one that has a very sprightly music video as well as a brief explanation.
https://plunketts.net/blog/flies-winter
As far as I'm concerned any insect that shows up in my house has already lost the will to live.
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