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Sick of all the fly's?

Started by: laughing gravy (inactive)

fill a thin white carrier bag or similar with water put a few pennys or summat in and hang near your door, the flys think its a bees nest and wont come in

Started: 7th Jul 2018 at 11:35

Posted by: chatty (9774)

Wondered why you'd been hounding me for pennys for over a year!

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 11:51

Posted by: momac (12575) 

I did mine this morning,so we'll see.

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 11:53

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Best things I've ever bought are three electric fly zappers,if they come in they go straight for the bright blue lights & get zapped

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 12:25

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (16559)

I've seen that on Facebook and it sounds ridikewless

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 12:34

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

I am pleased that yours work nana. I have had one for many years, and it has never caught a fly!

It did once electrocute a moth.

not so much big game hunting, I know, but when I see a fly, I go after it with these.

I have one in almost every room

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 12:39

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Priscus mine are like the ones they have in cake shops

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 13:26

Posted by: ayrefield (4465)

Surely you mean a wasp nest, bees don't make hives that hang from buildings etc. they prefer hollows, anyhow a wasp nest is brownish in colour as it's made from chewed up wood not white. It's maybe the bag swaying in a breeze that scares off the flies.


Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 13:44
Last edited by ayrefield: 7th Jul 2018 at 13:47:58

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

So is mine, though I remember that it came from the 'Bettaware', or is it 'Betterware'? catalogue, so that might explain!

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 13:45

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Bought mine from Amazon about £50 each

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 13:55

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Perhaps I should replace mine. It cost thirty, though that was twenty years ago. That is a lot just to kill one moth.

Originally got it because I had animals, and did not want to use poisonous sprays. Given the precarious state of my kidneys, it is now imperative that I keep away from such toxins. Have been using those Doff sticky window stickers to good effect.

Unfortunately, folk round here overfill, and hence do not close their bins, so fly problem is bad.

Thanks for posting of your experience with the devices, nana. I will try the ones from Amazon.

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 14:09

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Have you replaced the bulbs yearly ?

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 14:26

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Not yearly, though they have been replaced from time to time.

Not had heavy usage, it gets unplugged when I want to use socket for summut else, and given its lack of performance, never any great hurry to plug it back in.

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 14:45

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

I turn mine off when I go to bed & I'm sure there are none to catch,so I only replace tubes every 2 years

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 14:50

Posted by: ayrefield (4465)

Nisbets have some on reduced price offer if you want to take a look, delivery under £50 is a fiver though it is next day delivery.

Fly Killers

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 14:58

Posted by: upthetims (6591)





Everybody knows what attracts flies

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 17:04

Posted by: mindar (1334)

Just buy a tin of fly spray. zzz gone

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 18:45

Posted by: stars (432) 

We used to use a flit spray; do they still make them

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 19:05

Posted by: Platty (2107)

Ha ha. Paul Disley has just posted on Bromley Cross Notice Board that he left a bag with small change hanging from his light outside his back door while he went to the Flag to watch the footy. When he came back it was gone and his CCTV shows a small person has taken it and bought an ice cream from Creamy Treat's van at 3.50 p.m.!

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 19:28

Posted by: mindar (1334)

Ah Bolton. That explains it. Leave nothing outside in Bolton.

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 20:30
Last edited by mindar: 7th Jul 2018 at 20:57:57

Posted by: Platty (2107)

Yes Minder, they never learn.

Replied: 7th Jul 2018 at 21:16

Posted by: kathpressey (5706) 

stars - I remember the flit fly spray with the pump gun! I remember the fly papers too hanging from the ceiling with all the dead flies stuck to them

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 08:55

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Just seen the first flying ant on patio

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 09:24

Posted by: ayrefield (4465)

When the weather gets humid we'll be inundated with flying ants, still the house martins shall have a good feast.

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 16:13

Posted by: momac (12575) 

Some years ago I heard a lot of noise in the chimney breastt..thousands of
flying ants came tumbling out from under the gas fire..they flew straight to
the window which they covered until it looked like black glass..cutting a
very long story short I hoovered them up emptied them into black bags (two
big black bags) threw them into back garden until....
Chap who came down after I reported them said they saw the window and
thought it was the open air where they would mate ...it was a nightmare,I
shudder when I see one now.

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 17:45

Posted by: nanajacqui (4363) 

Yuk momac,how awful it must have been.

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 17:50

Posted by: baker boy (15758)

everybody knows what attracts flies ,yeah idiots leaving their doors and windows open.

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 18:56

Posted by: momac (12575) 

Well don't forget to close yours BB.

Replied: 9th Jul 2018 at 19:09

Posted by: baker boy (15758)

momac
you wished them on me ,just started peeling the spuds for tea and i have two of the little sods going up and down the downstairs .where's yesterdays paper ,i'll give em a headache.

Replied: 10th Jul 2018 at 14:27

Posted by: ann-spam (3470) 

Best idea I have heard so far .

Replied: 10th Jul 2018 at 17:06

 

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