Tuesday, July 19, 2022

“They’re landing everywhere”: Albuquerque seeing uptick in flies

  If you have been outside recently, you’ve probably noticed how bad the flies are right now. The City of Albuquerque says this season they’re buzzing around more than usual. “There were like flies, like the annoying ones, just everywhere.”

The flies usually come out during the rainy season, but this year, they came out earlier than normal and in swarms.

...The city says it has seen the increase too, with more people reporting the bugs than in previous years. Certain bug sprays are even hard to come by right now at stores around the city. “Unfortunately if people feel like they’re bad now, wait until the end of August, beginning of September when they really typically get bad, they’re going to probably be even worse than we are seeing right now, unfortunately,” Dr. Mark DiMenna, the Deputy Director for the Environmental Health Department said...MORE

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