Great home made fly traps.

[mark williams 7,549]

A lot of flies with the heat and council not emptying our bins but demanding council tax

                Anyway -

1 large plastic bottle, punctured inwards with a pencil or similar, say 3 times.

Put some liver inside the bottle filled to 1/3rd with water.

Hang up near some bins if you like, bottle cap screwed tightly back on.

As the smell gets stronger and more attractive, the more flies you will catch.

Here`s two days worth,- must be a good 500 in there.

Make a few lads, they knock lumps out of the fly population.

                                atb  Mark.

[Outofnowhere 93]

I'm going to make one of those thanks for sharing 

[The one 8,396]

I bought three plastic ones from the pound shop unscrew  the bottom put a bit meat in and theres 3 funnels for them to crawl into im emptying them twice a week round the ferret hutches just now 

[jayjay 264]

cheap, simple  and effective that mate, just what you need.......….good idea.

all the best,

jay.

[Deker 3,453]

Do the same for wasps of course, just change the bait to a bit of something sweet!

[talt 878]

My old mum used to put a hole in the top of a just finished jam jar and put a third of water in it for wasps.

[Deker 3,453]

14 minutes ago, talt said:

My old mum used to put a hole in the top of a just finished jam jar and put a third of water in it for wasps.

Same difference of course, and a time old tested and effective method!

[Guest vin]

them little Poundland traps are great..ive got 3 catching loads.... I've been doing the big pop bottles for years...but the little uns seem to work even better.

[Guest vin]

I've contemplated putting dog shit on one to try as an experiment.... because they seem to like that even more than the meat.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,608]

Great idea, gonna havto try it.

[The one 8,396]

I am going to rattle one up and compare it against the wee ones you can never kill too many flies during the summer and it would be a good comparison 

[Rowan 308]

The simple ideas are often the best , cheers mate.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,608]

Just a thought, but does the trap not attract a lot more flies to your garden than would initially be there anyway, because of the rotting meat?

[mark williams 7,549]

2 hours ago, Rabbit Hunter said:

Just a thought, but does the trap not attract a lot more flies to your garden than would initially be there anyway, because of the rotting meat?

No mate, not at all.

             Far fewer flies around now, they are all dead

[rizla1 122]

great idea, made one earlier with bit of minced chicken in and put it up shed, just been up to feed ferret now and i got my first victim