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

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

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

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

I've seen that on Facebook and it sounds ridikewless

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

Priscus mine are like the ones they have in cake shops

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.

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

Bought mine from Amazon about £50 each

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.

Have you replaced the bulbs yearly ?

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.

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

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

Everybody knows what attracts flies

Just buy a tin of fly spray. zzz gone

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

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.!

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

Yes Minder, they never learn.

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

Just seen the first flying ant on patio

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

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.

Yuk momac,how awful it must have been.

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

Well don't forget to close yours BB.

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.

Best idea I have heard so far .