Bloody fly

[DerbyBorn]

For over 24 hours I have had a fly buzzing me.

Where on earth do they get the energy to keep flying up and down the lounge, into the kitchen, then the dining room and back?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Are you sure its the same one? We had one in each downstairs room last week.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Carnivorous plants sort that problem. Never see any flies in the house now - the plants eat them.

[AC]

I doubt yours and his are the same.

[harryagain]

You can still get sticky fly papers. You can count them & see if it's the same one or not.

[Harry Bloomfield]

harryagain used his keyboard to write :

We bought one of those electronic attracter/ zppers a few years ago, it has yet to kill a single fly.

[Matty F]

I have a couple of those tennis racquet shaped zappers. They work very well on moths that seem immune to flyspray. The flies are a bit faster - the ones I miss with the zapper succumb to the spray.

[newshound]

I was going to say I have one of the Maplins zappers for the kitchen, two 15" UV tubes, double sided. It sits on top of a tall fridge freezer and only gets switched on when required, but seems to get anything within ten minutes or so. Slightly smokey sometimes, either keep the extractor on or use it to clear the room a bit before you want to use it.

[harryagain]

We have had onw for years. They need to be used at night with the lights turned off so the light attracts the flies.

[Dave Liquorice]

What drivel.

Our cheapy would zap flies any time of day or night but not *all* flies, some aren't attracted to the light.

What you do have to be aware of is that large flies have a tendancy to explode and spread bits of themselves several feet from the zapper. Don't place it above a food preparation area...

[Apellation Controlee]

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You stand a better chance when they - the flies - land on the window.

The forehand smash is deprecated in this situation.