[eneville]

Hi All,

I know fly season is on its way out, but I'm so impressed with these cheap fly traps.

I've worked out that the water bottles can come from Tesco for around £0.24, which isn't bad. If you let the flies do as they please then you may end up with maggots and all sorts. As the second video shows, they hatch very quickly.

The most important thing is I feel that the flies can be kept under some sort of control. Not all will get in the trap, however, most will.

So if there are any hot days left in the year I'll get another trap made pronto... Collecting all the bottles I can.

[snow white]

I collect wasps this way with lager.  Works really well.  I just tip the dead wasps down the drain and refill.

[Kleftiwallah]

I like wasps, my bunch are enjoying a jar full of pineapple jam that didn't set.

Cheers,   Tony.

[eneville]

I like wasps, my bunch are enjoying a jar full of pineapple jam that didn't set.

Cheers,   Tony.

I think the reason for the high number of flies this year is the low number of wasps.

*really* wish I knew about this trap at the beginning of the summer months.

[snow white]

Ones on the allotment are OK, its just the ones nesting in my roof 

[Mrs Bee]

Hi All,

I know fly season is on its way out, but I'm so impressed with these cheap fly traps.

I've worked out that the water bottles can come from Tesco for around £0.24, which isn't bad. If you let the flies do as they please then you may end up with maggots and all sorts. As the second video shows, they hatch very quickly.

The most important thing is I feel that the flies can be kept under some sort of control. Not all will get in the trap, however, most will.

So if there are any hot days left in the year I'll get another trap made pronto... Collecting all the bottles I can.

I posted pictures of this sort of fly trap a few weeks back. I don't put poo in mine I use the the juices from  defrosting meat and fish and a fish head. I have filled many bottles this summer with flies. Does the trick and doesn't stink as bad as the red cap fly traps.

[pepsi100]

That is quite a clever idea, but does the top of the bottle go back on the bottle unside down to stop the flies getting out ?

Bit late to try this now, most of the flies have now disappeared,

I used the sticky fly papers, they worked well, just have to hang em high enough so the chooks dont get stuck on them

I used these grow bag trays under them (when they are on their perches) this contains a lot of their poo and its easy to wash them daily, and it washes into the ground easy enough, (I just use the one area, leave it a week or so then dig it into the ground)

Once a week I wash the coop out with jeyes fluid, let it dry out, then let them lose in there again

[ehs284]

A great link Eneville, thank you, it is so easy to forget the simple cheap answers when surrounded by merchants. Pepsi; no the cap stays off. The flies are trapped because they try to get out at the highest point which is why the instructions mention the need to keep the shoulder. This is the principle behind many useful insect stoppers such as the Blair toilet used in southern Africa.

[SCassin]

I love this wish Id seen it sooner tho - we feed our cats in an out building and have terrible trouble in summer with their meat - so as soon as it gets warm and flies about they have to have dried food which they aren't keen on - this could have really helped.  The papers we hung about caught some but no where near enough.

[pepsi100]

Ah yes I can understand about the cap (or they cant get in) but its the part that is cut off (the 'cone'

Does that get put back on upside down ?

[ehs284]

Yes, you've got it ;-)

[pepsi100]

Yes, you've got it ;-)

Thanks, now it makes sense 

[nerdle]

Aw - poor flies!
If you think there aren't many wasps this year that must mean they all migrated down here! No shortage in Hampshire!!!

[pepsi100]

I found a hornets left, they seemed to be having a war with the wasps, they killed a lot of the wasps in the garden so never sw many this year

I dont know where the hornets nest was or where they have gone now

They were twice the size of a wasp