Pupae Station

Continuing the tradition of Gnarly Fridays, here we have a close up of a rodent bait station and some fly pupae.

The black plastic is the rodent bait station, the bright blue stuff is the rodenticide, aka rat poison, and the little brown things are empty fly pupae, which were once larvae, aka maggots, but are now flies, aka flies.

This is a good reminder how that flies can and will breed anywhere they can, and that your anti-pest measures may be effective in one way and counter productive in another way.

You can treat your rodent bait stations with an insecticide to reduce this sort of thing from happening, but you want to be careful that it is not repelling the rodents from the bait.

The best thing to do is keep the bait stations maintained regularly.

Another thing to keep in mind is that these flies will feed on the rotting rodent corpses, so nature knows exactly what its doing.

All right, get out of here.  Have a good weekend.