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Wikipedia is not a housewife book - I love my drainflies, they are harmless and have learned to live in the shithole 100 times longer than humans and will so - please delete the drain fly control section, which is an ecologic hazard anyway.

While wikipedia is not a repository for instructions I feel one of the main draws to this page is information on removing these pests. As such the section on control should be removed and instead a link to an appropriate website with the same instructions should be provided. Darkwraith (talk) 16:53, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some of us do not want to live with these pests. I found this website to be helpful in removing the organic matter from our drains (their main food supply) and keeping our home free of them. Instead of using the drain cleaner, we used one of the bio-friendly mixes of baking soda, salt, and vinegar. If you do not keep up with cleaning your drains for up to 3 weeks, they will come back again. http://pests.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-drain-flies.htm --Sing2himprayz (talk) 21:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that source two for these creatures may be potentially false as exterminators have an obvious vested intrest in presenting various animals as hazardous, irregardless as to wether they are in order to keep their services in demand. As such a more scientific source should perhaps be used if possible, if indeed there is ANY danger whatsoever which there does not appear to be. [The saddest seal :] ) April,6,2016.The saddest seal. (talk) 21:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome to keep your own drain flies, but other readers still want to get rid of them from their residences. There are nontoxic methods of controlling their numbers. Reify-tech (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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IMHO, there should be separate articles about Psychodidae family and Clogmia albipunctata species, not mixed up as it currently is. --Djadjko (talk) 21:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree. The article is titled "Drain Fly", and the first section, about the Drain Fly, says that the DF is harmless. Then you come to the "Sand Fly" part, where it says the fly transmits a serious disease. It's very confusing. The "Sand Fly" section should not be in an article titled "Drain Fly". Patrican (talk) 21:51, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the material on "sand flies" is confusing, and does not belong here. Before deleting it, somebody should check whether it duplicates content in the Sandfly article. If it is not duplicated, it should be copied to Talk:Sandfly so that editors there can salvage any useful content. Reify-tech (talk) 23:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Having heard no objections, I have moved the irrelevant and confusing material on sandflies to Talk:Sandfly for consideration of adding it to the article there. Reify-tech (talk) 15:35, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 25 May 2020, Move to Psychodidae

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 22:19, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Drain fly → Psychodidae – The most commonly used name for the family is Psychodidae, with a myriad of vernacular names for the subfamilies and genera. Only certain taxa are called drain flies Kev min § 18:12, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Shyamal (talk) 04:27, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:AT. Scientific names are more CONSISTENTly used than vernacular names for the titles of articles about insects. Psychodidae is a more PRECISE term for this family of insects, only some of which are known as drain flies. CONCISEness is pretty much a wash; 11 characters, 1 word vs. 9 characters, 2 words. I suppose drain fly is a more RECOGNIZABLE and NATURAL name for something (flies that live in drains, I guess), but it so badly fails precision to be a workable title for the family. If somebody wants to start an article about flies that live in drains, that might be worthwhile, but the history of this page should be associated with Psychodidae (which was the title from 2005-2015, when it was moved without discussion to "drain fly" by a user who is now blocked). Plantdrew (talk) 01:41, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

also, regarding article history, for awhile in 2015, moth fly was forked out as the article on the family, with a half-assed attempt to make drain fly about one particular drain inhabiting species. Plantdrew (talk) 01:46, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.