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He mentions apple cider vinegar and dish soap. It's worked well for me too but there are always a few flies that aren't as interested in the concoction so yea o
by UberFly 3y ago
He mentions apple cider vinegar and dish soap. It's worked well for me too but there are always a few flies that aren't as interested in the concoction so yea only a 90% solution. I've also found that many of these flies come in from the grocery store in things like strawberries so we're careful to check before they enter. Good article - would love to try these plants.
- zacharycohn 3y agoTry adding wine! I started with apple cider vinegar and yeah, it worked but a lot of them ignored it. Adding the wine really upped the efficiency of those traps.
- OJFord 3y agoIn abstract, sounds like raising the sweetness is what helped? Which tracks, I've never really been aware of vinegar being a particular attraction. (And I love the stuff, if anyone would notice...)
- UberFly 3y agoHas to be apple cider vinegar. It must smell of old apples or something.
- OJFord 3y agoMy guess is that apple juice would fare better than cider vinegar. The vinegar to me sounds like someone's idea of making it seem more chemical, more like a cleaning product - but this is just a mechanical trap, you could use anything, just a piece of whatever they seem attracted to even (e.g. extract from compost caddy).
- mst 3y agoA glass I was drinking hard cider from left out with a splash still in the bottom seems to reliably acquire corpses overnight.
- ChoHag 3y ago[dead]
- 1letterunixname 3y agoFruit fly epidemic here. They're aggressive and impossible to get rid of. I just added some chardonnay to mine. If there were an automatic 10W anti-fly laser air defense system, I'd buy it because they're too small to for manual fly zapping rackets.
- UberFly 3y agoThat would be a very cool bug zapper.
- voxadam 3y agoIntellectual Ventures[0][1] patented such a device[2][3] for mosquito control back in the 2000s but to my knowledge they never brought it to market to licensed it to anyone to do the same. [0] https://www.intellectualventures.com/ https://www.intellectualventures.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures [2] https://www.mic.com/articles/180851/the-world-needs-this-smart-laser-that-kills-every-mosquito-in-sight https://www.mic.com/articles/180851/the-world-needs-this-sma... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser