Getting rid of flies

janeawej

i brought a battery powered fly swat the other day! it looks a bit like a tennis raquet, you swat at the flies and it electrocutes them on contact! working well so far!! and great fun too for only £1.99

BargainHunterCat

Get a cat & have fun for hours watching it try to catch them!

LilacLillie

OMG! Noooooooooo
I ordered one of these last week and am waiting on delivery at the mo, only it cost £9.99 plus postage............Arhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Where did you buy your's???
LL

janeawej wrote: »

i brought a battery powered fly swat the other day! it looks a bit like a tennis raquet, you swat at the flies and it electrocutes them on contact! working well so far!! and great fun too for only £1.99

chardonnay_2

janeawej wrote: »

i brought a battery powered fly swat the other day! it looks a bit like a tennis raquet, you swat at the flies and it electrocutes them on contact! working well so far!! and great fun too for only £1.99

lol i got one of these other day in poundland - not had to try it out yet glad it works

Miss_Behaving

I was plagued by fruit files last year and used a tip I saw on 'How Clean is Your House'.

Basically put some cider or white wine vinegar in a jar, add a couple of drops of washing up liquid (for those who like the science bit this is apparently to break the surface tension), cover with cling film and make a couple of tiny holes. The flies are attracted to the vinegar, get in and drown! It works fantasically well.

HTH

cocalls

hello i read somewhere that flies dont like lavendar so i blagged a big bunch from my MIL last yr and i hang it in my kitchen and i top it up w/ lavendar oil. Haven't seen many flies since!!

jet44

Miss_Behaving wrote: »

I was plagued by fruit files last year and used a tip I saw on 'How Clean is Your House'.

Basically put some cider or white wine vinegar in a jar, add a couple of drops of washing up liquid (for those who like the science bit this is apparently to break the surface tension), cover with cling film and make a couple of tiny holes. The flies are attracted to the vinegar, get in and drown! It works fantasically well.

HTH

Will that work with ordinary white vinigar too please? They are driving me insane:D

mrbadexample

Mine doesn't need vinegar. :rotfl:

jet44

mrbadexample wrote: »

Mine doesn't need vinegar. :rotfl:

Go on tell me. I guess you do the same as me and go on a killing spree with a rolled up newspaper.
It makes such a mess though.:eek:

squeaky

Ha!



I have the answer to that one...

..the vacuum cleaner.

Use the bare hose without an attachment - wait until the fly settles somewhere.

You then slowly approach the fly from dead square on. The draft of air being sucked in by the hose prevents the fly from feeling the air current generated by something moving towards it and - swooch! there it goes!

There's a knack to it, of course, but once you get the trick of it you'll catch them first time at least eight out of ten. And no mess