The weather has finally warmed up here and now there plenty of super annoying houseflies. They’re way to fast to swat and have an annoying habit of landing on you.

I’ve tried Google’s suggestion of water/vinegar and a bit of dish soap in a bottle, but they don’t seem to go for it at all.

I’m up for trying anything, please make suggestions!

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Agreed, though I’ve found that usually dousing a fly in water (via spray bottle) is enough to surprise them & get them to drop. Once they’ve fallen it takes them a bit to dry themselves & get airborne again, that’s usually enough time to swat it and finish the job.

    That works well if you just have one or a few flies - if you’ve got a ton of them fly paper is going to work much better.

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      3 months ago

      Oh yeah fair point. Depends how sadistic you want to get mwahahaha! 😈

      But also after swatting the fly it’s nice to give the area a quick clean anyway.