fly traps

1..2 liter plastic soda bottles
2..Heavy scissors
3..24" lengths of string
4..Hole punch
5..Bait: Raw meat soaked in a small amount of water (or old beer); Marmite or Vegimite yeast extract.,

Making the Fly Trap
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Using 2 litre plastic soda bottles, remove label and rinse.
With scissors separate the top of the bottle from the bottom (see diagram). Invert(turn upside down into the bottom section) the top into the bottom part of the bottle.

On opposite sides of the container, punch holes using a hole punch.
Lace the string through the holes and tie with a secure knot to create a hanger,

Trapping Flies

In the bottom section make a concoction of water and yeast extraxt, or old beer and raw meat with maybe a teaspoon of vanilla essence put on the top Upside down as early stated lace up with the string and ...

Watch them have a pool party...
You will need to empty after a few days you may
1/ throw it all away
2/ unlace the string and using a coarse cloth or stockings (with permission) pour the liquid and the flies through the straining device into a diisposable cup or similar.
Then pour back into base of trap, lace up and start all over again.
Yah hours and hours of visial bliss.
Enjoy.

Just like the above mentioned fly catcher mine is commercially available, and you add a sachet of goop that attracts the said fly to the said recepricle and voila...into the water with no life jacket.
Problem is the sachet stuff lasts about 2-3 weeks then you will need to buy more. But its cheap fun.
It attracts most variety of flys, houshold through to those humungous big horse flies. god have mercy if one of those went down your throat.
I clean it out every 3 days.
The smell is disgusting so its not for the faint hearted.

Grandma or affectionatly known as little nana had a great way of getting the dirty little devils. A smelly fly ribbon hanging from the light fixtures in every room.
It looked gross but worked well.
Unfortunatly if you where over her height 4'4" you would hit your head on the sticky fly infested bit of paper stuff. We didnt throw our heads into the air laughing much around little nana or you would end up with a mouth full of dried powdery flies that were disinegrating on the ribbon.
I am certain should little nana requested anything to take to the after life one of these fly catcher thing would have been on the list in front of grandpa.
Got to love little nana, she hated flies