Off Topic Flies in your firewood ?

[Old Cut LongPointer]

Is it just me or what ? Every time I bring in a fresh load of firewood ( Ash of course ) for a couple of days I get flies in the house. Do they lay eggs in the bark ? I knock the wood around pretty good to get rid of loose bark and dirt but not all of the bark falls off.

 

[Wildfire]

Emerald ash borer?

 

[Lpgar]

Cluster flys under the bark

 

[Extra Virgin]

I've had flys, ladybugs and stinkbugs all hitchhike inside this winter. Keeps the cats entertained

 

[can't miss]

Put away a few cords of standing dead ash this season, there's was a few bugs but nothing out of the ordinary. Because of my overly ambitious work habits here, rounds sat piled for a while begore split and piled?

 

[mooner]

Circle flies?

 

[Derkd9]

When the temperature drops outside the adult flies hide in the wood, likely get deep in a tight crack or something like that and go into a state of diapause (similar to hibernation) when you bring the wood inside they warm up and wake up.
just like on a warm winter day all of a sudden see them flying around the outside wall of the house

Set up a few different fly traps near the wood trap them when they wake up hungry! probably your best bet to take care of them

 

[done working]

When I lived in Manitoba I used to get mosquitoes (the provincial bird) coming in on the firewood at -40C. I would have preferred flies.

 

[Old Cut LongPointer]

They look like common house flies to me. Oh well... they only last a couple of days then die. Don't recall seeing them last year. My firewood rack in the house holds approx. 3/4 face cord and depending on how cold it is I get pretty good mileage out of my i2400 Regency insert.

 

[Speedy Turtle]

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[ch312]

They look like common house flies to me. Oh well... they only last a couple of days then die. Don't recall seeing them last year. My firewood rack in the house holds approx. 3/4 face cord and depending on how cold it is I get pretty good mileage out of my i2400 Regency insert.

Of the 4 years I have been burning wood we’ve had housefly size flies every winter I bring in wood. The odd spider and stink but too. The bugs like the insulating properties of the wood

 

[anonymoose]

We get a variety of bees, moths and western conifer seed bug (stink bug) in ours.