kphil24
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Two weeks ago, when I went to check on my rig, i noticed several bugs flying and crawling along the inside rim of my toilet. I sprayed, and killed them, wiped them out. Came back last night and several more again in the same area. Any ideas why?
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travelwithwhippets
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Are they tiny little gnat-type bugs? We had the same thing happen this summer while camping at Prophetstown State Park in Indiana. When we moved locations, no more bugs. I never did figure out why we had them, so I'll be interested to see other responses.
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kphil24
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Yes, tiny little knat type critters.
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Dennis Henderson
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Do a Google search on "sewer flies" and you will find out all about them.
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ddreisbach
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Dennis Henderson wrote:Do a Google search on "sewer flies" and you will find out all about them.
Also known as "drain flies".
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KD4AO
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I had the same thing a while back when we were in a grass covered storage yard. I finally solved the problem by removing the cap on the roof vent and placing a rather fine bug screen over the end of the vent pipe then replaced the cap over it. No more little bugs.
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jjtx22
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Being from South Texas, we refer to them as piss flies. I changed my toilet and they disappeared. Before R&R of commode, I took my toilet apart and cleaned it. Re-installed only to have the piss flies come back. Apparently there are crevices where fecal material can accumulate inside the base of the toilet that will sustain piss flies.
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sowego
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Yup, yucky problem. Our toilet was inop for a couple of weeks while we order and replaced the water valve, in that time we had skeeters lay eggs somewhere, we think inside the rim so guess what -- we had skeeter larve hatching and crawling around. All we could do was clean the toilet well with bleach water, spraying up into the rim. In a few days they either all hatched and got killed off or the bleach killed them.
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J Walker
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Some toilets like older Thetford have an overflow that is supposed to have a one way valve but it doesn't work. That could allow critters from the black tank into your MH. I plugged my overflow mainly to keep odors out. Newer Thetford toilets don't have an overflow. BTW mine is a 2000 Aqua Magic. I believe that 2-3 years after mine the overflow disappeared.
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kphil24
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Kinda makes me think twice before sittin down on the thrown 
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