Bag Of Death, But Fly-Free Garden: Flies Be Gone

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]