Bag Of Death, But Fly-Free Garden: Flies Be Gone
Published by Alex April 12th, 2007 in Chores, Gadgets. Share This
Ah, to be blissfully pruning your vales, weeding the beds, checking your ‘maters for plumpness, and then to be bitten on the forehead by a bastard horsefly. Such are the rites of late spring. Astonishing that flies are so hardy, that their eggs don’t die out every winter but are renewed every year to pester, befuddle, and bite. We too-often spray down our bodies with noxious deterrents, and our gardens with nasty pesticides to control the bastards, but what is the alternative? Flies suck.
Try a proven bait and trap, the likes of which the folks at the Maine Supply Co. have damned near perfected with their simple, affordable, and hugely effective Flies Be Gone bag. These things have a spectacular consumer rating. They’re effective up to four weeks at only $13 a pop, and they trap upwards of 20,000 flies each.
These things are environmentally friendly and easy to dispose of since they use no toxins or pesticides. One drawback: they’re butt-ugly. Total eyesore. Put ‘em behind a bush or something.
Flies Be Gone [amazon.com]
I’m generally opposed to the whole killing thing, with insects being the exception, so i say YAY BAG OF DEATH!
Anyone else ever go to a camp that served “bug-juice”, this gives a while new meaning to the word.
I’m gonna send a mess of these thing down to those starving Ethiopian kids with flies crawling on their eyeballs. I despise those depressing commercials.
Bonus: Insect protein shakes for all the starving kids!
depending upon what they use for ‘bait’ to attract flies, these things can be nasty.
we got one and the bait smelled, more or less, like i would imagine… the rotting corpse of a drunken hobo who fell into a sewer with a skunk stuffed in his pants, would smell like.
that kinda thing REALLY attracts the flies, though. it was a killing machine. just don’t put it anywhere near the house, or anywhere that you’re going to walk.
and when time comes to dispose of it — make sure you’ve got a sealed container to put it in (thick plastic bag, etc.) you don’t want this concoction leaking out anywhere.
Another home remedy I see often on bar and restaurant patios, as well as a few friends back yards here in Texas, is the old Bag O”Water trick. You fill up several one gallon Ziplock bags and hang them around an area. For some reason this acts as a deterrent. It sounds weird, but it seems to work pretty well.
Google “bags of water flies” and a bunch of sites will come up discussing it.