Damn Flies!!!

I haven’t noticed as many around.

VYBerlinaV8 said :

I tend to burn citronella candles when entertaining outside. Perhaps I’m just lucky, but they seem to work quite well.

Is it just me, or do we have fewer flies than normal for this time of year?

I tend to burn citronella candles when entertaining outside. Perhaps I’m just lucky, but they seem to work quite well.

And they get very bloody stinky very fast. Yuck.

I’ve been through about 5 of those fly traps – completely full of flies, this season already.

Went to Bunnings Fyshwick to pick up a trap… walked up and down the camping aisle, couldn’t find anything to do with flies, only mozzies. Started leaving and just as I got to the counter area, saw the big bargain bin full of fly traps sitting there. D’oh!

click on the mossie trap link and all will be revealed. I don’t think the cow here would like me to vacuum him, and he’s quite smelly, too.

That mossie trap is brilliant! And I have all the ingredients right here (except the plastic soft drink bottle). That trap, as well as producing carbon dioxide, will also end up as alcohol!

They seem to have you pitching the yeast rather warm though. I guess it’s bakers yeast, which likes warmer temperatures.

As for vacuuming the cow, no way.

Like ew… What do you do with the dead flies? Put them in the compost?

Your local hardware megastore has a selection. The commercial baits are quite effective.