Hot tip: Frying Flies

Actually its a bit like those stage acts where there are lots of sparks but all you tend to get is maybe a tiny burn on the end of a finger as the voltage may well be high but the current is not there and you just get a tingle.

I feel the smell was just wishful thinking.

Brian

I have one of those and when the fly gets stuck to it and starts frying I wack the swatter on the toilet seat and the fly usually ends up in the toilet bowl and then I flush it.

Booked your place in hell. :)

I'm surprised Big Clive doesn't have something on his website with a more useful power output.

Owain

I have a high powered electric fly squatter ("the Executioner") and any fly which lands on it gets catapulted across the room but the tougher ones live. Amazing but disappointing.

I bought one of those from Poundland a couple of years ago, thinking it would be fun. However, a side effect of having a number of carniverous plants around the house is that I never see anything flying around. The plants do catch things in their traps, so there obviously are somethings flying around, but they catch them before I get to see them, although something like a wasp in a trumpet shaped pitcher plant can be quite noisey for a few minutes.

Many years ago (before I had carniverous plants), I bought a small insectocutor and ran it in the bedroom overnight on a hot summer's evening. Didn't get any sleep... Every hour or so, there was a click, click, buzzzzzzzzzzz, fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, bang!

There is another way: The Bug-A-Salt gun.

(If you are just looking for a way to get rid of them, it is neither sensible nor cost-effective. If you are looking for a *satisfactory* way, this may be it...)

Thomas Prufer