House flies

[Accy cyclist]

Boom Boom!
What has six legs and flies? Three pairs of trousers! (if we're going down that route).

What do you call a fly that's lost it wings?

A walk! 😏

 

[Accy cyclist]

My fruit fly 'community' has returned due to the hot weather and me leaving empty beer bottles in my kitchen. I don't mind them as they are fairly clean, only bothering with fruit and beer. They don't land on dog shoot 🤮 or rotting food, so they can stay, just as long as they don't massively multiply, then I have to hoover them up.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We just put a sign on the door saying no flies. Seems to work.

 

[Reynard]

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

Someone's noticed my sig. Finally.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Someone's noticed my sig. Finally.

Well I knew you used it, obviously(!), but I remember it as a Groucho Marx line.

 

[Reynard]

Well I knew you used it, obviously(!), but I remember it as a Groucho Marx line.

I remember Terry Wogan using it in a trailer for his radio show... Been using it as my internet / email sig for the last 20 years or so LOL

 

[classic33]

Someone's noticed my sig. Finally.

Not the first time.

Put the force through the centre of the banana. It should then fly straight and true.

 

[ColinJ]

Someone's noticed my sig. Finally.

Probably because many people are browsing on phones in portrait mode and therefore don't see it?!

 

[YMFB]

Flies seem particularly bad this year, the dreaded fly paper is in the kitchen

 

[MontyVeda]

I have a high voltage tennis racket-like flying pest zapper. The only problem is that flies have very quick reactions so it is hard to sneak up on them with it.

I've got one of those. Useless. I'm sure the flies can hear it charging and hide somewhere, then the moment i put it down they start flying around again

Bees and wasps are easy to catch in a glass and get put out of the window. Don't kill the pollinators!
Horse flies are hard to catch but if i ignore them and open a door, they eventually find their way out, which is less frustrating than trying to get them with the zapper racket

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Flies seem particularly bad this year, the dreaded fly paper is in the kitchen

Probably the dead body in your larder this year ?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

We just put a sign on the door saying no flies. Seems to work.

How to your trousers work then??

 

[Psamathe]

Very effective way to reduce numbers of flies are "Red-Top Fly Trap" except has limitations, mainly only for use outside and away from windows (it smells) and lots of "knock-offs" that don't work well (bait is the crucial factor.

They catch vast numbers of flies which doesn't stop them getting in the house but does reduce the numbers around.

Ian

 

[Psamathe]

Wasps are my job at home

I generally get a glass or something similar and wait until it settles
Then just slowly move the glass over it
Then slide a sheet of cardboard or paper under it and trap it

then outside and release it

Wasps are useful and important. It's only late in the summer when they become pests. Earlier in year they are after protein which means they are hunting other insects most of which are "garden pests" - hence useful. Later in summer they've done their breeding, no longer need the protein so are after sugar when they seem to damage loads of fruit crop and pester people having picnics.

Don't squash them as they communicate using pheromones and squash them and it releases a warning pheromone putting other wasps in the area on alert and making them more aggressive. At least that's what I was taught.

I generally find leave them alone and they'll leave you alone. Same with hornets.

Ian

 

[presta]

Don't buy these, they don't work.

You just have to hope they haven’t been sitting on a dog poo all day!

That reminds me of Michael Buerk talking on the radio this morning about his report from Ethiopia that started Band Aid. He said there were people rummaging through donkey droppings looking for undigested seeds they could eat.