Best domestic fly killer please?

[Broadback]

The flies are around already, which does not bode well for the rest of the year. Can someone please recommend an effective killer that does not mark furniture of windows?

[Martin Brown]

Commercial UV electrocution insect zapper trap.

But be sure to empty it from time time or you can get serious problems:

[tim...]

Why did I read that as kite filler?

Um.......

[Adrian Caspersz]

A quickly incinerating laser beam focused on a edge of a DLP micro-mirror that can quickly swing it into the target as seen by 3D cameras, with zones such as windows and furniture mapped out of the 'kill area'

Then a remote controlled flying drone with a small vacuum cleaner despatched to hoover up the remains.

All controlled and completely automatic from a Raspberry Pi.

Patent probably pending from somewhere...

I've got one of those high voltage 'tennis racket' fly squatter things from Poundland. I've had a couple of flies get a visible spark, which works apart from a couple that managed to recover and take flight again.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Too many couples, remove the first...

[Andy Burns]

Or just a can of RAID, provided you don't mind the smell of chrysanthemums.

[Nightjar]

Food quality UV traps use a sticky transparent film instead of a zapper. The film is on a roll that advances every few hours and gets changed about once a month. That avoids any falling fly parts, which could contaminate food.

[spuorgelgoog]

Is *that* what it smells of?

I suppose it's not too healthy to spray huge clouds of it about as an air freshener.

Owain

[Chris Green]

I thought it was pyrethrum, which is sort of flowery but not really chrysanthemums.

[Tim+]

Impossible not to follow that with "No, it is for my armpits". ;-)

Tim

[damduck-egg]

Bring back Flit.

G.Harman

[Andy Burns]

It is pyrethrin, which is either extracted from crushed chrysanthemums (Kenya grows thousands of tonnes per year) or industrially synthesised.

Personally I find it a bit sickly sweet, so only really annoying flies get blasted with it.

[Dave Liquorice]

Makes sense, but falling is an understatement. A blue bottle zapped by even the small domestic UV zappers explodes itself over quite a distance...

[Dave Liquorice]

And use it according to the instructions. Close windows and doors, a second or two spray into the air near the middle of the room, leave room reclosing that door and wait ten minutes.

You don't need to zap the flies directly, oh fish aren't overly keen on the stuff either, so remove or cover their tank.

[harry]

Sticky fly papers.

[Brian Gaff]

Hmm, I'm not sure about that one. There are certainly bees around this year, out in force yesterday around here.

I guess fly paper seems to still work. Brian

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Why did they install it in the loft?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I've seen plenty electric ones in food places.

And part of a dead fly won't kill you, or cyclists would be dying off all the time when they breathed one in.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Too much to drink? Why would you fill a kite? A kite is a flat device.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Just ignore the overly cautious warnings on the can.