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Danged yellow flies!

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Darn flying piranhas! They land teeth first and bit HARD. Sometimes they will land when you have both hands full, and you can't do anything to shake them off before they bite.

Last year we were gone the month of June and missed out on this scourge, but this year, no such luck.

Actually bought a few heavy duty fly swatters that won't bend or break like some of them will. But then I stumbled upon something else.. :hehe:



Not sure Connie would appreciate salt being shot all over the house, but outside, well, not a problem!
 
I wanted to get one till I found out they were $50. It's a pretty cool contraption though. I have a friend who is a machinist and he said he could probably build one from a air soft gun but the bummer is it would only be a single shot.
 
Yeah, and the last time I had an alcoholic drink WAS long before the guy who posted that quip was born.........

So I have no idea what it meant. :shrug01: :shrug01:
 
Sticky type traps aren't suitable around here, because the green anoles will wind up getting stuck on the traps. I saw an account of someone using large black inflated beach balls covered with a sticky substances that appeared to be very effective, but again, the collateral damage with the lizards would have been a problem.

We have several Mosquito Magnets running, which seem to be very effective at trapping the yellow flies without the collateral damage. Since the flies are attracted to movement, and from what I have read, the color blue, I have set up some "motion aids" in the form of whirlygigs and blinking blue lights to help attract the flies from a surrounding distance to where the Mosquito Magnets are located.

The population has been GREATLY reduced lately, but we still find one or two buzzing us now and again.
 
JColt said:
Maybe hang them with string.
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I'm not sure that would help much. The anoles would notice flies trapped and struggling on the adhesive, and the motion would attract them to the traps themselves. They are perfectly capable of climbing down a string to the trap.

Heck, I'm hoping like hell Connie doesn't find a baby anole in one of my Venus fly traps. Heck, I'm hoping I don't find that. Might be the end of my mini-bog gardens.
 
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