Where did the flies come from?

[Jacobson]

My wife got a lovely bouquet of flowers from our daughter on her birthday last week. It was delivered by a local florist and immediately put in a vase with water and the liquid feed supplied. A few days later when she picked up the vase to change the water, a cloud of tiny flies rose from the flowers. We haven't had particularly warm weather so have had doors and windows closed so where did they come from?

 

[McKitch]

From the flowers

They were probably brought in with the flowers. I am going to guess that they were fruit fly's. This year was a very bad year for flies with numbers far above what they normally are. No really explanation though.

 

[sukie]

Yes they sound like fruit flies to me also. It's strange but every time my husband has a bourbon and coke in the evening, one of these little blighters always ends up swimming around in it! They seem to come from nowhere but I have read that they lay eggs on any decaying vegetable or fruit matter and they are so small they are around all the time.