One of the pest control guy said they can use fly catching station ($30 each) to get rid of "indoor" flies.
Wonder if i can buy this station anywhere and use it? Where to buy from though?
Fly Catching Station?
anonymoususer on 22/03/2016 - 11:29
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thanks, does it work for indoor flies?
I don't see why not, although I think sugar will work as well in place of the vegemite.
thanks, any thoughts on below bunnings link item can be used INDOOR even if its written as no indoor ?
Sugar works OK but the flies seem to like the yeast smell more
@SirNed: Maybe because they're Aussie flies and loves to get drunk XD
@electricbluee: As per JB1 below, there should be any difference between "indoor" flies and "outdoor" flies so it should work… it depends on the ingredients I think, perhaps the outdoor bottle are more pungent or maybe have some poison mixed in? Need to check to see but otherwise, should work just fine.
thanks the bunnings one seems Non-toxic attractant and Pesticide free, so should be ok to use indoor I believe.
Don't these STINK! but they are great out doors..
We had a massive fly problem this year and the biting flys were chewing our dogs ears to bleeding. So within a few days I had a couple of inches deep of dead flys in one of these..
$9.99 from Bunnings
Says "Indoor use? - No" but this looks enough like a fly catching station to me, I guess.
correct, its not for indoor :(
But wondering is it safe to use that inside house?
When these first came out they worked well. Bought the refill satchel and not 1 fly was caught…
If they are full of dead bodies they can get a bit smelly.
That thing STINKS. I use it in garage.
If you like the stench of vomit around your house. Buy it.
Not kidding.
There isn't such a thing as an indoor fly.
An 'indoor fly' is basically a fly that has managed to find it's way from outside to inside.
I find it amusing you will pay somebody to spray toxic poisons around your home then question whether a non-toxic trap is safe to use indoors!
What non-toxic trap we are talking here? If you meant bunnimgs one then its not meant to use indoor.
The description is pretty clear:
"The Envirosafe Fly Trap Refill consists of pesticide free, non-toxic, food grade ingredients, making it the safe and effective way to trap flies."It seems odd to me that you would happily spray poison around your house then be worried about a non-poison trap.
The "Outdoor" moniker is not safety but appearance and possibly odour (I haven't smelled it myself). In what way do you think a non-toxic trap could be unsafe?@mskeggs You hit the nail on the head. The odour of these traps after a few days is terrible.
They are amazingly effective, which means after a few days you have a container of drowned rotting flies, with a layer of maggots, topped by a layer of slightly fresher flies (the ones most recently caught).
We use these in our backyard so we can ignore the smell somewhat.
Just how major is this problem you face, electricbluee? Coastal usually differs vastly to inland beyond a certain distance travelled.
Given the inherent smell of other traps, I'm surprised that nobody has suggested an electronic bug-zapper - yet. Just in case they do, don't buy one of those. I read some (seemed pretty definitive) research years ago that showed very viable bacteria from atomised fly-guts deposited for metres around the unit, post-zap. The irony of those fluoro zappers still being present in certain places is not lost on me, anyway.
As per JB1 above - barring maggots in your mother or your moggie, "indoor" flies come from outside.
If you have a backyard and any significant source of the problem isn't next door, and if your problem with flies is just a bit outside, and occasional, inside, and you decide to buy the trap mentioned above or make your own and it doesn't help or makes things worse by attracting more flies, indoors, some other things to try…
Relatively few flies where I am, but some irritation one summer, a few years ago.
Where do flies kip for the night? If you've never noticed, it's not under leaves, but mainly on longer stalks of plants - grass, dandelion stems, stems of other flowers etc.Late afternoon - you don't even have to wait until twilight. Go outside with a pyrethrum spray and have at them. In summer mentioned above, almost twenty killed first go, fewer each subsequent afternoon. All made a big difference to enjoyment of following days in the backyard. At least have a look, where you are.
Some blowflies were around, too, in some numbers. They seem to have a particular affinity for clotheslines, during the daytime. Also easy to spray, there.
As for inside the house - no fly-swatters used and allow little of anything noxious to be sprayed.
For moths (and lacewings - the big ones here are very sweet, and hapless), every home should have a toyshop butterfly net, or two. Net allows you to let them go free without any squishing, or spraying.
Better technique is more direct for flies, but net with fly dragged to floor + pyrethrum squirt, works well.
Direct method successfully taught to others and fun game of some skill:
Flies only see light and shadow and perceive quick change in those as basis to react. As long as not too stirred-up, flies will land, and settle, pretty quickly. They also have particularly limited processing power in their noggins.
Turn small freezer bag inside-out over hand. Hygienic and helps smooth light and shadow transitions. If you wish, you can use a couple of the extremely cheap, ridiculously thin + useless for anything else, Black & Gold freezer bags. They will do.
Move very slowly toward fly. Once fly has settled, you can almost always get within a couple of centimetres. If you are patient and wait until they start to clean their front legs, a solid +90% squish-rate. Impatience sees that drop to about 60%, initially, but back up to at least 75% - when you learn to anticipate any attempted flight trajectory by the target.
I hope that helps:) Think laterally, and vertically.
You post a lot of forum topics, electricbluee.
Just given that I may miss the next one, maybe about ants, here is the less than helpful part of my advice, in advance…
Magnificent bloody things.
Please PM me if you manage to successfully import one…:)
Great post.
This is a person who is at one with the prey.Also, even allowing for possibility of - various, misinterpretation, if I've told you once, I've told you a non thousand times - please make sure that use a freezer bag, not 'cling wrap', for successful fly catch-and-squish.
Flies don't need a body-wrap, either.
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https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ440jK…You can use a spray bottle, when wet they can no longer fly and you can then just pick them up without having to clean up guts
Dont need to buy one all you need is a cool drink bottle put some hotwater and vegemite in there and mix it up. Then put a hole in the lid just big enough for the flies to get in. They then foget their way out and drown in the mix. And there you have saved yourself 30 bucks.
Used these on a farm and worked well.