2011年9月26日月曜日

Serious Problem with an Outbreak of Flies

     June 29, 2011


Many disaster areas including Onagawa have a serious problem of an outbreak of large flies.  Did they spawn in dead fish?  I don’t know the cause, but it is terrible.
Several minutes after parking a car, it was covered with a swarm of flies all over although it depended on where you parked.
Click to enlarge the photo.  The black spots are all files.


I brought a gift of many mosquito repellents as the summer was arriving in earnest.  However, the flies were the problems, not mosquitoes.  I thought that the repellents hung at the front entrance might repel some flies, but not so many.  We could not catch up with the overwhelming number of flies.
There was an article in the Kahoku Shimpo newspaper about the extermination of flies.  It is a mixture of 100 g of sugar, 70 cc of Sake and 50 cc of vinegar.  The small amount of this mixture can be put into a 2-liter plastic bottle with holes being punched on the side.  The bottles can be placed around the house or be hung from the wash-line pole.  This was a nutshell of the article.  I saw many bottles hung from the poles from that day in Onagawa.  A bottle turned black with a swarm of flies overnight.  However, flies were born every day.

Depending on the location, some area had more files than the other.  The coast, Shimizu area, multipurpose gymnasium were the worst in terms of infestation.  Asahigaoka had a fewer.  During my stay in Onagawa from June 17 to 19, the areas where people are living were disinfected extensively.  I am hoping that the disinfection would work.

It was a lunch time when I visited the school and again the flies got in the way of setting the table at teachers’ room.  Was this somewhere in Asia?!  It was infestation of flies.  It will become even hotter this summer.  We really have to pay attention to sanitation.  The disaster areas face difficulty one after another.  Onagawa Disaster Measures Headquarters have been asking the goods to repel flies through Amazon.  I really hope that the situation will improve, even a little.

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