Our Campervan Is INFESTED! Worst Week Of Vanlife
This USA vanlife vlog is a little different from what we intended to be sharing this week – because our campervan got INFESTED with flies! It was easily the worst week of vanlife we’ve ever experienced.
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Maggots somewhere, commiserations from Australia 😱
Please mind your cussing it lowers the quality of your video
Funny as, I would of thrown up in your fly situation.
Spam can be fried and put in a sandwich and it is good. They created it during WWII, for the soldiers. It could be shipped and never spoil.
Obv the mouse died somewhere in the van and the flies are emerging from his carcas. Find the dead mouse. You havent found the maggot shells yet. Clean your vents.
Im sure this could translate into a Horror movie lol THE FLIES lol
Yep a cricket infestation ,in the millions ,horrible. And that was in a house.
Hang a sign above the van door "Work will set you Free Flies" the last traveling gas vans I've heard about was WW2 lol Alex the Gas man lol
Fly paper roll is better. Less cleaning up, also less toxic. Maybe have to steam clean the van, esp carpet. One fly can lay hundreds of eggs. Hang fly paper spirals.
You've got something dead in your van. It's nature's way if consuming carcuses
They leave larvae and produce more flies
The maggots eat all the flesh then the more you kill the flues the longer it will take to get rid off the flesh of what ever carcuse dead critter in your van
Yes I had to live in a house after rentakill put poison in my loft OK killed the rats as I lived near a river and neighbour leaving drain cover up amongst rubbish but went months with rotting carcases and blue bottles the smell was horrendous never want to experience it again.
There's something that the flies are laying their eggs on and the flies are the maggots that have come from this. You need to find the food source, which I suspect will be a dead mouse, and remove it before the flies will stop. I'm surprised you haven't noticed any weird smells. The flies aren't finding they're way in, they're homegrown.
Wow that's horrific, you guys must be the most unluckiest van couple on the road lol great videos both awesome. 🤘🤘🏴🏴🏴
We have cluster flies in Georgia and Florida. I see them in August allover our windows. Your bug zapper is a game changer. Cant let even one in our home can get 50 a day just breeding. Feels like war for sure thankfully they are slow and easy to catch.
Somewhere out there is a raccoon waiting to hitch a ride in your van! 🙂
this is just strange…….
Your not having much luck in the USA 🙂 keep going though
So I live in Michigan in the lower peninsula where we can be pretty buggy in the summer but the upper peninsula is the land of bugs. If you visit in the very early spring or late fall there will not be as many bugs or winter if you like to do that kind of thing. Sorry if you got the bugs in Michigan there's a reason only 300,000 people live in the upper peninsula.
That spray worries me. Those things can cause cancer. Be careful you guys!
Deets for some weird reason works for fly's and mosquitoes 🦟
I wonder where the dead mouse is.. Somewhere in your van providing free food for flies maybe? what comes after the fly infestation ? Spider infestation feeds on the flies mm yum yum! Ahh the cycle of life dont you just love it 🙂
A plague of locusts maybe next… Get yoursleves a couple of geckos to sort them out 😂
There in between the Walls I had worse then you guys when I lived in the Log house. We had 1 big window in the basement that was infested every spring .. I just wet vacced daily . Luckily none came to the upper levels or anywhere else in the house so I understand your frustrations.UI swear I vaccuumed up at least a thousand daily, most were dead but some were kinda disoriented . Open up the Walls if you can prolly the only solution.
We had a similar thing happen something died next to our generator under our RV the flies kept coming in the cracks. I found the spot and cleaned with a lot of bleach and fixed the problem.
The little critter coming back is you. Haha
I was in the porkies last week and got like 100s of flys in my camper as well. More then ever seen.
What you needed was a few big spiders to eat the flies lol. Must say did giggle because it looks like a normal summer in Australia.
I am in London, chuckling away, until suddenly, a really fat lazy fly just landed on my lamp before slipping down the back of my bed. But I’m soo clean 😮
If it has a waste water system you need to check tanks.
The Van must have so sort of adhesive that would invite flies and besides once every so years there is a year where you be invaded by then,,, just like cicadas
Cluster Flies – so Jeff Goldblum is no longer a suspect 😊🪰
What would gross me out is ALL of the fly poop after ALL of those fly's. 🤢
To answer your last questions, Yes, Yes and Yes! Loved it, Awesome/Horrible experience.
Used to live next to a cattle ranch. Flies were terrible. We used to hang up those sticky fly strips and they worked great.
Very funny!
Actually, seriously, do try to remove the fly spay if you can – I lived in a rented place that had had fleas and the landlord sprayed liberally with.. well, I think it was a permethrin type spray, so should have been ok, but anyway I had years of ill health and strange symptoms such as face swelling (!) which disappeared when I moved out. Maybe a coincidence, but…
They look like what I suspect are cluster flies. They leave a sent that attacts MORE DAMM FLIES!!! You are now heading into winter, a time where these little "buggers" look for a warm place to have a mass fly conferance!! So I can confirm your research….sadly.
I have seen them dead in a house ceiling so deep they completely covered to pink insulation batts!!!! good luck.
I've been doing alot of research on van builds and such because I'm about to build one myself and try this living this lifestyle. You two are so hysterically funny I couldn't stop laughing. I don't think I would have been able to laugh through all of that the way you did. Instead I could see myself declaring war and breaking out the flame thrower! LOL Really enjoyed your video I'll have to check out the rest of your channel. Hope the rest of your trip is a good one.
Honestly, the flies have been horrendous in Yorkshire this year. We still have 1 that just doesn't want to leave. We have killed dozens of them!
This is the horror film we need for the Halloween season
LOOK UNDER FRIDGE?? WET PLACES?
You got dead field mice in the walls of your van. They will keep coming in and just wait untill the maggets start to grawl
Spam is for the apocalypse
Now for the 2 days of cleaning of EVERYTHING in the van…. WITHOUT flies!!!!
I cannot believe how many times you've sprayed and how many are just literally appearing, seemingly, endlessly! I'm so glad the numbers finally dwindled. And I'm also glad these probably didn't lay eggs. I just hate your American experience has had so many hiccups! Thank you for not giving up. Sending good vibes for all the future adventures
They are laying eggs my friends. I’m sorry but they are probably in nooks and crannies you cannot see. I would go to a professional honestly.
Have you flushed out your wastewater tanks? That'd be my next move
Please tell me you ran everything through a launderette after all that insecticide! Looked super unhealthy – not least for the flies!
I kept thinking, leave the doors open for a couple of hours (in a place that doesn't have a lot of flies!) and most of them will be attracted out into the light?
Really feel for you, though you smiled through it, not fun. Thanks for sharing another adventure!
Flies and other insects are attracted to light colors and especially white.
You leave a light on at night and you have many insects flying around it outside.
During the day white reflects the sun light and it attracts them. Then when you open your door they come in and stay by the droves.
My sons house is out in the country and he gets so many in his house and it is white also.
My ex wife’s house is like 200 ft away but it is red brick and she don’t have much trouble with flies.