Lorry flies

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This is my first post, and I'm hoping there's someone out there with the same problem as we have with our lorry - a tidy but 20 year old Ford Cargo. We keep this lorry immaculately clean, both horse quarters and living, but we have a constant problem with flies in the living. They seem to appear from nowhere between the times we use the lorry, and despite determined attempts to eradicate them they keep coming back. Any ideas!?
 
We have a 25 year old Ford Cargo and guess what?.........we have the same problem but ours are in the cab! They seem to come from the roof, between the lining and the actual metal top. We spend most of our journey squashing and hitting them with various cloths or rolled up newspaper. We get rid of them briefly until the next lot hatch the next time! We even used to spray the cab with fly spray when we had finished for the day and leave it with all the windows up but it didn't really stop the problem.
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As a biologist I suspect that the flies are either overwintering/hibernating in the roof and then emerging as great big sleepy flies on the first warm days out in the cab when the vibrations of starting up the lorry awake them from their slumbers, ( they are often huge because because they are so old - hibernate year after year.) Or there could be a mouldering bird corpse up there or bird muck or even the remnants of horse manure in the floor that is attracting adults to lay eggs, which then pupate.
I remember my old lorry had a similar infestation, and I have also come across these horrible creatures in old houses where at the end of the summer they find warm nooks and crannies to hibernate 'til spring.
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We have the same thing except with those horrible lacewing green things. All our lorries have had the same prob & we're not *that* dirty...
 
We have this problem, and I have found them hidden overwinter in the following places.
The roller blinds
hundreds of the blighters hidden inside the metal compartment in the front where you fill the windscreen water.
Behind the seats.
I think as the lorry warms up when you drive they all fly out of their hiding places.
I now spray the inside periodically with fly killer leaving the windows and doors shut for a few days, there are always loads to clear up after this.
There is something herbal flies loathe, I think it's elderberry, so I'm going to make some juice this year and leave a cloth soaked in it to see if that works any better.
 
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