29 Apr 2022

Warm, humid Canterbury suffering with plagues of flies

From First Up, 5:17 am on 29 April 2022

The unusually humid and long summer has created perfect conditioins for flies to breed and thrive ... and in parts of Canterbury they're reaching plague proportions. In fact, there are so many flies being hoovered up by rattled residents that they're causing their vaccum cleaners to break down. Daniel Highman from North Canterbury-based Guaranteed Pest Control told our producer Matthew Theunissen he's never seen anything like it.