What are these little creatures and how do I get rid of them?
Hello my experts,
I moved into my own apartment for the first time 8 months ago, which means this is my first winter here. Since it got cold, around October/November, I've had a ton of little bugs (?!)
In my apartment, either dead on the windowsill as in the pictures, or they are flying around the apartment
At first I thought, okay, maybe the fruit I was getting regularly had started to rot, but that wasn't the case.
The three of us then spruced up the entire apartment, cleaning it thoroughly, including using disinfectant and insect killer spray.
Since that didn't help either, I thought I'd try here, maybe someone else has an idea.
I'd love to ignore it, but these things are flying everywhere these days. When I'm cooking fresh food, I have to expect to find them on my plate. They even fly into my water bottle if I leave it open for a moment, or into my office when I'm having coffee and cake.
I have already told my (private) landlord, who just said, yeah, it was the same with the previous tenants
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Unfortunately the details are difficult to recognize – my thought about the long legs:
Buckles
Please compare yourself:
https://www.google.de/search?q=buckelflies&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWrbK8y4n2AhWJ7rsIHeq_CBgQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1195&bih=650&dpr=136
When so many have been seen:
You should see that you get rid of them, because they are not entirely without. The seizure must be found and erased.
First, please look in and around the garbage bucket, under the sink, drain pipes…
https://schaedlingskunde.de/schaedlinge/steckbriefe/flying/buckelfliege-megaselia-scalaris/buckelfliege-megaselia-scalaris/
Otherwise, think about whether an animal has died somewhere in the immediate vicinity. This can be a mouse a bird.. That could also be a source.
Hard to see on the photo. Could be deposit flies.
Short-term recordings
Maybe bacon beetles, you know as well as nothing
I don’t think so. It could be butterfly mosquitoes/deposit flies.
Could you make a close-up of the animals?
In the pictures, you can’t see so much and only badly identify it:(
Close-ups made
Look like grief mosquitoes. I would, as it was the case with the pre-renter, ask your landlord to commission a pest fighter, as it is not in your responsibility to pay this, which was already a problem before ingestion.