I'm over buying fly spray and got the idea to start making my own fly traps using old coffee and milo tins from work (they seemed too good to throw out)
Just hunting out the best fly trap plan on the internet and then will attempt to construct a couple for a trial run. I know you can buy them from rural stores and off trade me...but why bother when you have all the ingredients at home for free! Will take piccies if sucessful (or a failure!)
Goodbye to pesky country blowflies forever (hopefully)
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Wet wool wows blowflies
Wet wool is wonderful blowfly bait - at least after hanging out a woollen jersey one time I came to this opinion - shudder.
I inadvertently built a marvelous fly trap when I built a geodesic dome house. The central pentagon was not clad. Above it was a pentagonal top hat with a stainless wire netted and shuttered vent on each side. Below it was a kind of inversion of the top hat built with fancy timber and transparent panels, also with a net covered vent on each side. The general dome lights were provided by five circular fluorescent tubes inside this lower structure which also had a wide lip round it concealing the vents.
When we moved in I marvelled that we had no fly problem whatever, though half surrounded by bush. Flies were a bane in the nearby cottage we lived in during construction. Eventually I inspected the vents for dust clogging and found all the flies, of every kind, all dead inside that lip, hundreds of them. Every few months I went up with the vacume cleaner. I'm not certain why it worked so well. The flies could have flown away but maybe the symmetry, lights and vents always forced them back.
Noel