{"id":92707,"date":"2026-08-09T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92707"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:09:53","slug":"why-your-house-is-a-magnet-for-flies-horrified-brits-say-their-homes-are-crawling-with-insects-heres-whats-behind-the-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/09\/why-your-house-is-a-magnet-for-flies-horrified-brits-say-their-homes-are-crawling-with-insects-heres-whats-behind-the-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your house is a magnet for flies: Horrified Brits say their homes are crawling with insects \u2013 here&#8217;s what&#8217;s behind the invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/05\/15\/110456011-16030535-image-a-6_1785941244266.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018I feel like I\u2019m going mad,\u2019 one person said on TikTok. \u2018They\u2019re so jarring. I\u2019m trying to cook and you\u2019re swarmed by an army of them in your own home'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it feels like your home has suddenly become overrun with flies, you\u2019re not imagining it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-16030535\/house-magnet-flies-homes-crawling-insects.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>If it feels like your home has suddenly become overrun with flies, you\u2019re not imagining it. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/flies-this-summer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92709,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707\/revisions\/92709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}