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There is something dead in my shower!

On a recent inspection I found this little fellow in the Master Bathroom shower. In case you don’t recognize him, it is a bottle fly----or blow fly. When you find these critters around you can anticipate that there is something dead around.

Blue Bottle Fly It was no surprise later when, in the attic, I found two sticky traps with recently caught----but very dead----mice in them. It was even less of a surprise when I weaseled my way into a section of the crawl space that no one had been in since construction, and found a dead rabbit. How the heck does a rabbit get into a crawl space? I could find no entry points big enough for a rabbit---but there must be one somewhere. I was willing to let the Licensed Pest Control Operator figure that one out.

Perhaps a gravity-drain hidden somewhere under the vapor barrier.

While the colors of the blow fly are spectacular---what these flies do for a living is not an image I like to think about-----and you my poor reader most likely do not as well.

So, from this same house, I will leave you with a more pleasant image----and yet still an image of death and dying.

More Colorful Herb Henry

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Posted by Charles Buell, Seattle, WA, Home Inspector on 10/10/2009 10:10 PM

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30 Comments on There is something dead in my shower!

OCT

Charles, that is one ugly looking fly. It was interesting information, though. Thanks for sharing.

I forgot. What does a blow fly do? Sounds to me like you need to have a home inspector come in and check your abode. A good one would find the crawl space access. I have a friend to suggest and recommend. His name is Nutsy Wallenda but he charges quite a bit.

Lina, thanks

Barbara, Nutsy would be a blow fly magnet if he came around.

Charles:

All I've got to say is Ick!!! I hate finding anything dead.

Charles,

Interesting, sounds like CSI. It was interesting nevertheless, gross but interesting!

Charles, but you DO need a home inspector. This is your own home that your talking about. A Nutsy Wallenda could cure your ills.

Carol, don't much like it myself except as an opportunity to gross out all my fans:)

Sara----or how about "Bones?"

Barbara, first of all this is not ME saying the title and it was at a house I inspected. Nutsy cannot even cure his own frills!:)

Sorry, Charlie, I misread. I would have sworn it was your home shower. Embarrassed me.....saying goodnight.

Ewwww!

Thanks Charles!

Barbara---better check your shower:)

Craig, just what you needed on a Saturday evening, right?:)

Mr Charles,

Godmother Barbara, I read it the same way. In fact, I am really surprised that Mr Charles found all those things at his home. While he is a confirmed slob, Ms Julie seems very tidy, if not so charmingly friendly. I remember when I was running his firm, she tried to sweep me outside with the trash. What a case of a big misunderstanding.

Nutsy

OCT

Charles: I'll never be the same again when I step into a shower! LOL I can tell you it is for sure that this gal will not be going into any crawl spaces.

Godson Nutsy,

I'm glad I'm not alone here. When someone says, "There is something dead in my shower," I take it that "my" means me, and where me takes a shower. Remember when the obscene picture that he said was you had his name clearly underneath?

One other weakness here. He never found the spot where the now-deceased rabbit entered his house. But don't you go volunteer to do his job this time. Just let dead-rabbits lie.

Godmoma Barbara

Missing ears. The blow fly had a good dinner.

Nutsy, what is with the ice boring equipment----are you going fly fishing again?

Donna, but they are so much fun!

Barbara, how do you explain that my house doesn't have a crawl space?:)

Kate---nice thought:)

Godmother Barbara,

Ears: Mrs Kate is so goofy that she does not understand that, to keep them warm, I tuck them up under my hats. I guess she thinks that all of us are like the naked home inspector who, as everyone online knows, likes to share his extremities with his Shoreline clientele. Tell these rats to leave my ears alone. I have a right to keep them warm. Mr Charles, you silly, I am drilling for oil. This was taken a year or so ago. I think it was when I was near Miami beach.

Nutsy

Nutsy is too polite to say it, but this might be the root of the problem as to why I notice that when I have lunch with Charlie, we always have flies buzzing overhead. I always thought it was part of his comedy club attitude and a propensity for clowing around.

Nutsy,

Mr. Charles gets mixed up. How would I know about a crawl space at his house?

You might know since you've been there. I think regarding your ears, you've found a bully or two. Mr. C and Ms K, knowing that you are much more intelligent and successful than they, are trying hard to get you by their bullying techniques. When I went to school the kids called me Rudolph because when I walked to school in the cold my nose got red. I wanted to cry because their teasing bullying hurt so much. Now I don't care. So just hang in there.

Godmoma Ms Barbara

P. S. You know I hate that hog dot suit................

Barbara I agree about the hog dot suit----especially with the mus-turd running down the front:)

Mr Charles and Mrs Kate,

I am really steaming. You are making fun of my Godmother. How dare you. I am wearing my hot dog outfit Godmother because it is the suit that most closely resembles rocketman and, when I rage like Mount Etna, I need my hot dog suit. I am now molten over the fact that they made fun of you, my Godmother.

Nutsy