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Posted by Charlie Morgan on July 21, 2006, 11:57 am
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:47:45 +0000 (UTC), Ignoramus5766
>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:41:07 +0000 (UTC), Ignoramus5766
>>
>>>On 21 Jul 2006 10:25:24 -0400, Philip Lewis
>>>>>I will indeed buy fly paper. I am thinking of making some "fly
>>>>>attractant", by, say, wrapping a jar with fly paper and putting a
>>>>>small light bulb inside, or some such.
>>>>
>>>> You can also make a funnel trap with a 2l plastic bottle.
>>>> cut the bottle off just below where the flare at the top ends.
>>>> Remove the top. Which should look like a funnel.
>>>> (works well as one, btw. ;)
>>>> Place some sort of attractant in the bottle.
>>>> Place the top back on the bottle, with the narrow part "inside".
>>>>
>>>> here are instructions for a fruit fly trap:
>>>> http://www.smm.org/sln/tf/t/2literbottle/2literbottle.html
>>>> only they cut the bottom off and use a butter container.
>>>> Perhaps easier to empty.
>>>>
>>>
>>>You know, it sounds very interesting and educational and I think that
>>>I will do it for my son's education, but it seems to be geared for
>>>fruit flies, not house flies. Good idea though, thanks.
>>>
>>>i
>>
>> I've used soda botle traps such as that for houseflies (omit the cap
>> completely) and it worked okay. It won't usually catch them by the
>> hundreds, though. If you put something like pig poop in it, it would
>> attract more business, but I don't think that would be so good for
>> indoor use! I put sugar mixed with fruit juice in them and they worked
>> okay to keep the fly population at bay after I got rid of the masses.
>> Cluster flies are a big problem in the northeast for vacation homes.
>> When you arrive and turn the heat up after the house has been cold for
>> a while, the flies come to life and hundreds come out. It has nothing
>> to do with leaving food out, or how clean you keep things.
>>
>> The reason the bottle trap traps the flies is that they are unable to
>> take off going straight up. They can only take off at an angle.
>
>OK, I have nothing to lose and will make a bottle trap today! I will
>put some juice there etc.
>
>i
You can skip the whole part of the instructions about fitting a butter
tub anbd film can on the bottom. That's not needed for catching flies.
Place the trap near a sunny window, or hang it beneath a skylight.
Flies always try to fly towards sunlight. If you put it in a dark
corner, you probably won't catch much.
Happy Hunting!
CWM
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