It's the time of year I start opening windows and shit,so it's the time I start thinking about how to kill flies and shit that get into my house.
I've been looking at bug-a-salt for a while, and it seems fun, but I worry about it leaving a slight mess, and damaging my monitor if I try and shoot off a moth. I also had a look at these tiny little spider vacuum things, but I hear they've got barely any power so it probably wouldn't work very well.
I've got an electric tennis racket thing I've had for years lying around, and it works alright on flying flies, but it's hard when they start crawling into corners and stuff. Some kind of vacuum seems like it'd be the best, maybe there's an add-on for a real vacuum so you can get a decent pull on the frickers? Any other ideas would be appreciated.
It might seem like a joke, but if you have the patience, it's possible to get pretty accurate shooting them with a thick rubber band. In my teenage years one rainy summer afternoon, we had a bunch of flies in the house for some reason. My dad showed me and a friend it was possible to hit one with a rubber band. My buddy and I spent the next few hours trying to see who could get the most flies.
While this would be fine for smashing them on walls, I don't really want to smash them all over my monitor if I can help it. Plus it'd be hard to aim at flying ones. In my head I've got the idea of a a mesh sphere with a quick close hole on one side, you just put the ball around the bug and push a button to seal it inside. Probably wouldn't work very well.
put a fly trap outside your windows. You can make your own with a 2liter bottle and an egg or you can buy one premade with a rotten egg powder.
the bottle will FILL with flies and reduce the amount that will get inside your house
I don't get a huge amount to begin with. It's just for the few that do make it in.
don't overcomplicate things. Wait for them to land then smak.
I don't want to get the walls dirty. I wonder if they make a smaller version of the electrocuting tennis racket that's shaped like a gun so I can put it right on top of the bug and wait for them to move and fly into it. The racket gets in the way if you try and do that on most flat surfaces.
These things are great. Bonus, the mix is just yeast and sugar. Make em yourself.
why don't you put screens on your windows?
Glue paper curls are 5/5 starts imho. I have one near every window and they attract and catch the flies very well.
I feed the flies to a spider in my attic by throwing it into the web
You can bag it if you move slowly. Flies can't see a slow-moving object.
>I've been looking at bug-a-salt for a while
I bought one last week, and I don't regret it. For a plastic toy gun it's surprisingly and impressively high quality, has a great feel to it. Also works like a charm. Usually I just use an electric racket, the kind that's rechargeable and has lights to attract insects, and a holster to set it in so it passively kills bugs on its own. However, those aren't great for when the bug is hiding in a crevice, or too high to reach, or is flighty and flees before you can get close enough to hit it. For the above situations, the salt gun is ideal.
It's unsightly but I also use those yellow fly strips. Put in the right spot, they can catch stuff. In the wrong spot and they hang there catching only dust.
get em with your bare hands. they always begin flight aimed in the direction of their body, so hit ahead of them
one time a small animal died in my basement walls or flue or something and rotted and smelled like death for a few days but then the smell went away and was replaced by an infestation of flies. there were literally hundreds of them swarming all over my basement. i put out all the traps you could think of and it barely made a dent. after a few days they started to make their way upstairs and i had had it and just went down there with a can of hornet spray and put my shirt over my nose and spent the next 5 minutes emptying out the can at everything that moved. by the time i was done the air was stinging my eyes and there was not a single fly left alive. i don't care if this helps you i just wanted to relive that wonderful day.
This genocide I can really get behind. As someone else mentioned OP just install screens on your windows and doors you won't have to worry about little c**ty flies or spiders after that.