Fly catching or killing 🤔

[harrycatcat1]

I bought some fly catcher ribbons from Tesco about a month or so ago and they are rubbish. I hung one up so it's been up 3 weeks plus and despite flies coming in the house not one has gone onto the fly paper.

 

Do other folks bother about flies? My Mrs is paranoid about them, "filthy things are in again" etc.

Does anyone use anything like this 🤔

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354861614781?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1sa1pct3rxo&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=v2P7Ib7BQsi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[JKD]

Never used this type of thing/stuff,,,, just use a [hand-shaped] fly-swatter 🫲😆

We've both probably upset member jall25 now 🤷‍♂️🙄😆

[enfieldspares]

I lack the hand and eye coordination needed to use a fly swat with 100% success. I bought some flypapers on Friday from the local Co-op. One caught so far.

[wymberley]

Here's how to find out just how paranoid your wife actually is.

Great fun.

Bug-A-Salt UK (bugasalt.co.uk)

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, small flies i use a spray but big blue bottles if i cannot get them to escape out the window i have a gadget i brought back from China, An electrified tennis racket fly zapper, 🪰⚡💤  , 

Edited 7 hours ago by oldypigeonpopper

[Eddie B]

Only thing worse than a hape of flies in the house, and that's a hape a them yokes, full of dead flies  hanging round the house. Use a fly swatter. Not many flies around these days, compared to years ago. Only see the odd few in the house, from time to time. 

[harrycatcat1]

2 hours ago, wymberley said:

Here's how to find out just how paranoid your wife actually is.

Great fun.

Bug-A-Salt UK (bugasalt.co.uk)

I've been looking at them too, think they are 50 quid 🤔

Has anyone got one these 🤔

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354861614781?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1sa1pct3rxo&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=v2P7Ib7BQsi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[JKD]

Thick rubber band and a 12" ruler ? 🪰💥

[Stonepark]

3 hours ago, harrycatcat1 said:

I've been looking at them too, think they are 50 quid 🤔

Has anyone got one these 🤔

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354861614781?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1sa1pct3rxo&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=v2P7Ib7BQsi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Less than £20 direct from China.....

[harrycatcat1]

12 hours ago, Stonepark said:

 

Less than £20 direct from China.....

Have you got a link please 🙏 

[Eddie B]

Don't think those electric USB things are any good. Just read the description, and it would be useless for flies.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, What about those Sticky Fly Tapes ????? You can buy 8 for £2 off Ebay

[oowee]

We are in the country close to a lake and huge bird colonies. Flys and other insects are a problem.

Fly tapes are at best messy. I bought a plug in chip shop style purple tube zapper like this https://www.nisbets.co.uk/nisbets-essentials-commercial-fly-killer-16w/fd499?vatToggle=incvat&cm_mmc=PLA-_-18129508709-_--_-&cm_mmca1=go_18129508709____c_&kpid=go_cmp-18129508709_adg-_ad-__dev-c_ext-_prd-FD499_sig-CjwKCAjwhvi0BhA4EiwAX25uj_JXdlGsza66F11tvizzTfINdehbnu6Ltmq6UCQ9nK-_5-_VREir6xoC8UUQAvD_BwE&gad_source=1

It works a treat but it will not get fruit fly's. For them i simply put a slice of apple in the bottom of the catching tray and they get zapped milling about.

[harrycatcat1]

2 hours ago, oowee said:

We are in the country close to a lake and huge bird colonies. Flys and other insects are a problem.

Fly tapes are at best messy. I bought a plug in chip shop style purple tube zapper like this https://www.nisbets.co.uk/nisbets-essentials-commercial-fly-killer-16w/fd499?vatToggle=incvat&cm_mmc=PLA-_-18129508709-_--_-&cm_mmca1=go_18129508709____c_&kpid=go_cmp-18129508709_adg-_ad-__dev-c_ext-_prd-FD499_sig-CjwKCAjwhvi0BhA4EiwAX25uj_JXdlGsza66F11tvizzTfINdehbnu6Ltmq6UCQ9nK-_5-_VREir6xoC8UUQAvD_BwE&gad_source=1

It works a treat but it will not get fruit fly's. For them i simply put a slice of apple in the bottom of the catching tray and they get zapped milling about.

That looks the dogs dodahs but I was looking for something smaller and portable to put in the living room like the link I put up presumably works on the same principle as yours with a blue light. 

2 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, What about those Sticky Fly Tapes ????? You can buy 8 for £2 off Ebay

In my first post that's what I bought but not caught one fly yet.

[harrycatcat1]

3 hours ago, Eddie B said:

Don't think those electric USB things are any good. Just read the description, and it would be useless for flies.

Ah 😉👍read it again 👍 "fruit flies" I was thinking big flies not small fruit flies 🙄🙄🙄😉😉👍👍