Comments on: Shoo, Flies, Don’t Bother Me!

by: Robert Nisters

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:59:01 +0000

When the flies are at my house (usually in the summer when I have consumed fruit and I don´t want to empty the trashcan because it´s not completely filled yet) I just open the thashcan, kick it a few times so all the flies come out, take the vacuum cleaner, remove the mouth-piece and suck them up. They never come out again.
Fast, clean, odorless extermination of those pests.

Ofcourse you could devise a gauze-like structure inside the hose and feed the flies to the fish later.

BTW, I like your site. unfortunately I don´t have much to contribute to the AS part, as I´m too much a newbie in that part.
In case you use the glass, you could fill the glass with water and feed the flies to the fish once the flies have disappeared into the glass, although that would introduce the fruit to the fish water as well, so you´d have to filter the flies/fruitwater first (easy if they´re in a gauze-covered glass, just move the gauze over the glass-opening to where there are no holes in it. Make sure you only use the liquid part of the fruit-juice.

by: David Stiller

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:12:02 +0000

Hiya, kglad!

Welcome to my humble abode.

The closest thing I had to a fish tank was a small frog tank that sat on my desk where I used to work. That frog kept me company for over six years! When I started working from home, I transferred the tank to my living room. Frog managed to climb out one night and secretly explore the living room.

I finally found it a couple weeks later, completely dried out. That was the end of an era. I’ll bet the frog would have liked those flies, too.

by: kglad

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:52:57 +0000

if you have a fish tank, rescue those flies prior to their death and throw them in your fish tank, preferably after stunning them. your fish will love them.

by: David Stiller

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:04:51 +0000

Ooh, I like!

by: Dave H

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:51:56 +0000

Here’s a variation on the same idea: instead of fruit, put a quarter cup of vinegar (or beer) in the glass with a few drops of liquid dish soap. The fruit flies are just as attracted to vinegar as they are to the sugars from the fruit (vinegar is basically made from spoiling fruit). The dish soap is lethal poison to them so you can eliminate the plastic wrap if you want but it does help to contain the odor. The benefit to this method is you won’t have spoiling fruit in the glass and the flies won’t escape when you decide to clean out the trap.