One of the cats tore a hole in the screen today and was window was open all day. Got a binch of houseflies buzzy around. Cat said I’m done for the day and I’m not chasing any flies. Don’t feel like swatting flies. Anyobdy know of extremely unstrenuous way to catch and kill flies? Remember reading something about beer in a bowl with dishsoap in it.
Any suggestions?
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Well, of course there is the whole reproduction thing.
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Well I got the one tube of fly tape out, man that sh$t is a pain to roll out. Cat is asleep, tired from watching the flies tonight.
Guess I better be shopping for fly condoms then. Oh wait, I'll just find a local (hr ein Kansas) to preach abstinence.
Three samurai are getting their final exam... Their master approaches them with three small wooden boxes. He steps in fron the the first samurai, quickly flicks the box open and closed and a fly buzzes out.
Wooshhh... the first swordsman makes a lightening swipe through the air and the fly falls to the ground, neatly cut in half.
Then the second samurai gets his fly... swwwoooosh... and again. The fly falls to earth, cut into quarters.
Now the third samurai...he steps towards his fly, swipes the air with his sword, and yet the fly continues buzzing around the room.
His master frowns and says "Your fly, it still flys?"
"Yes Master", replies the samurai, "but he will no longer reproduce"PaulB
I have one of those harbor freight electric fly swatters. Not labor free, but the brilliant spark as a fly moves on to the other side is somehow satisfying and addictive. DO NOT TEST THE FLY SWATTER WITH YOUR FINGERS!
OH, I do have a Boston Terrier that snaps flies from the air, and eats them.
Turn of all the inside lights. Draw the curtains. Open one window and they fly out because they are attracted to the light of either the sun or the brightest light you can put outside the window.
Edited 7/15/2008 9:14 pm ET by sisyphus
Spiders get them. I would find a couple spiders, give them free room (and included lodging) and then politely scoop them up to be set outside again.
By the way... killing spiders is bad luck. Killing flies is not.
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Have two active spiderwebs in top of laundry room, has 10" ceiling. Can't let wife know they're there or I'll br spider trapping too.
Oh that is good. Yeah, at any rate the spiders don't really eat flies fast enough to reduce their numbers unless it has been a couple days.I remember that rubber bands were always handy for blasting flies when they land.Handyman, painter, wood floor refinisher, property maintenance in Tulsa, OK
for onw at a time catching, you can supposedly raise you hands 6" above the fly and clap, flys always take off straight up
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shop vac, works for mosquitos too!
If you have a forced air furnace, get a few of these. Put them on the air filter and turn the fan on. Leave the house for the weekend and all will be DEAD!!! works on fleas as well.
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Yeah, think what it may be doing to you.
got a little story about that. You remember (maybe not) those Shell no-pest -strips, you would hang in a room and the vapors that came off that would kill all flies? It was about 35-40 years ago. Hung one in my bunker room to get rid of the flies on the Montana ranch, I was almost taken to the hospital. Woke up couldn't breathe. This went on for 3-4 days, finally I aired out the place and got rid of the hanging fly killer. You guess it....I could breath again.
I did say leave for the weekend.
I omitted to say remove upon return. My BAD!!