Comments on: How To Kill Flies https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Jockaira https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494131 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:16:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494131 Verrry Interrresting…Would this work on my in-laws?

]]> By: Ian Kemmish https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494130 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:24:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494130 Our local garden centre sells venus fly traps. Not only do they do the job, but they clear up the remains (would you want to eat off the table in that video?), and probably get children interested in science too.

]]> By: Amoeba https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494129 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:12:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494129 Surely, if you’ve got spiders, you’ve got spider food. So vacuuming spiders is probably not a good idea.

I can’t recall where I heard it, but the rough ride through a vacuum-cleaner is likely fatal for many invertebrates. The risk probably varies, tough ones like small beetles might well survive unscathed.

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494128 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:21:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494128 Doesn’t seem to have happened. I left the hose and tubes on, so they would have had a long journey out, and I figured they were battered by the trip and other debris and the baking soda might clog up there breathing thingums.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494127 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:16:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494127 Until they break out of the vacuum cleaner in the middle of the night…..

One way to avoid that is to vacuum up a bunch of spiders too.

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/02/how-to-kill-flies/#comment-494126 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:09:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13025#comment-494126 Too late.

I had a housefly outbreak 2 days ago (apparently a rotten onion in the vegetable bin); woke up and the living room & kitchen were full of them. I vacuumed them up as they congregated at the front window then gave them a chaser of some carpet deodorizer.

It’s pretty effective at getting them and leaves no carcasses.

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