Once flying insects are inside,

[DingDingDao]

did anyone see that Fear Factor where they had to eat maggot juice with drowned flies in it?

 

[EMPshockwave82]

bfg9000

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao
did anyone see that Fear Factor where they had to eat maggot juice with drowned flies in it?

that was so disgusting! drown the flies in maggot shake then drink it?! .... I still recall that woman that lost that round and was gagging just by watching the first few contestants down it :disgust:

 

[Yossarian]

take off and nuke the site from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

 

[konakona]

paintball gun. if it doesnt kill em you could at least see em well enough

 

[Bryophyte]

The best way I've found is to let them settle on a window, and suck them up with the vacuum cleaner hose attachment. If they're still too active for that, just wait a day and they'll slow down. When I was painting the outside of my house a couple summers ago, I had to cover my windows with plastic, so when the temperature hit the 90s, I had to open all the doors to cool the house off. Filled the house with flies. I sucked up thirty or more each day for a few days. Damn.

 

[SP33Demon]

I got the answer buddy: aerosol glue (rubber cement). Go to your local arts and crafts store, it's a spray on rubber cement, we used it in college. I sprayed a spider in its web, and afaik, it's probably still encased in its rubbery grave. Pretty cool cuz the webs get all hard when the glue dries.

Edit: For bonus points, try shooting a fly out of midair! It's quite a sight, sort of like spiderman webbing it in mid air and then it just drops like a rock to the floor!

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Please define "best"

-Least damaging to the abode?
-Most painful to the insect?
-Most psychologically satisfying?
-etc?

Doesn't set the house on fire.
Doesn't involve cats.
Won't fvck up my DNA.
Isn't expensive.
etc...

Based on your criteria, you should infest your house with spiders. Thanks for playing.

That actually is an excellent way to get rid of insects. There is a brewery in Brussels that uses this technique. They use naturally occuring yeast in their beer, and have the brewery open to the air. The inside is covered with siders.

 

[Jeff7181]

I use to have a flying insect trap... it has to hang from something, but it just looks like a bucket, and it has a lid on it but it's partially open. You fill it with sugar water and it attracts all kinds of flying insects, but once they get in, they can't find their way back out, so they end up dying in there. Unfortunately it attracted bees and wasps even more so than the tasty wood that our house is made of.

So uhhh... fly tape?

 

[gotsmack]

use fly tape or get one of those light traps, I forget what they're called but they tubes get really hot and kill the bugs because they're attracted towards the light.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Please define "best"

-Least damaging to the abode?
-Most painful to the insect?
-Most psychologically satisfying?
-etc?

Doesn't set the house on fire.
Doesn't involve cats.
Won't fvck up my DNA.
Isn't expensive.
etc...

Based on your criteria, you should infest your house with spiders. Thanks for playing.

That actually is an excellent way to get rid of insects. There is a brewery in Brussels that uses this technique. They use naturally occuring yeast in their beer, and have the brewery open to the air. The inside is covered with siders.

Seriously, millions of years of evolution can't be wrong. If there is one thing spiders know how to do well, it is kill bugs.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Are you sure they're fruit flies? Do they look like gnats? Do you have house plants?

If they look like gants, and you have house plants....

You can kill the flying ones, but they keep coming back because they lay eggs in the plants and the life cycle goes on and on unless you disrupt it.

Pesticides for the plants that I could find at Home Depot didn't work. A half-inch layer of coarse sand in the plants did the trick.

Good luck.