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How many flies are in my apartment?

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Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

#5

Is it better to leave windows open so flies can escape or closed so they never come in?

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

Not sure that answered the question properly

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

#6

Is it better to leave windows open so flies can escape or closed so they never come in?

Context. Which place (outdoors or indoors) is more attractive to the flies/insects? Temperature, Humidity, other attracting factors - depending on region and other related params, this may change with time of day etc

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

#8

Is it better to leave windows open so flies can escape or closed so they never come in?

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from.

But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

#10

This would be an interesting thing to prove with OpenCV

Flies are small... you'd need a lot of light, multiple angles and good cameras/lenses to decently illuminate the flies, which has the problem that all the light will only attract more flies.
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