How to catch a fly in a room

How to catch a fly, there are several basic ways - to buy a ready-made device, to make a trap yourself. Insects must be caught, as they are carriers of various diseases, bite painfully, cause an allergic reaction.

How to catch a fly in a room

Insects fly well, instantly respond to any movement, almost elusive.

1. You can catch pests with your hands, but for this you need a quick reaction, skills. Fingers bend toward the palm, gently approach the fly, without making sudden movements. As if they knock down a fly with a bent palm, quickly bending their fingers into a fist when an insect hits the palm. To catch right away requires experience and training.
2. It is much easier and faster at home to catch pests using special traps. One of the most common options is fly tape, which is suspended from the ceiling using a special pin. Adhesive tape retains properties for about 3 months, gradually catching flying pests. Change as the sticky part is filled - just throw it into the trash can. The price of one piece is from 5 rubles. up to 100 rub. depending on the manufacturers.
3. You can also catch a fly in the apartment with the help of special lamp traps. It is allowed to use them in any room, in the open air. The lamp operates silently, does not require large energy reserves. It operates on conventional or solar panels, batteries, mains. Attracts flying insects with ultraviolet rays, heat, the smell of carbon dioxide. It draws into the trap with a fan, where the fly sticks to a special adhesive base. Popular patterns Vector Trap, Deluxe, Terminator, Klatronik. Cost from 300 rub. up to several thousand.
4. Catching a fly at home is easy with a self-made device. How it will work, by what principle - an individual decision. In this case, the fantasy welcomes. Examples homemade traps presented below.

On a note!

Any device will work much more efficiently if you lure a fly. Juices of fruits, berries, sugar, honey, and some other products are used as bait.

Homemade traps - manufacturing options

For home catching devices, improvised means are used. Attract pests by smell, light, heat.

Plastic bottle

It will take empty containers from a carbonated drink, preferably mineral water.

1. Cut off the top. To do this, initially make a hole with a knife, then carefully pass the scissors, cut off the neck.
2. Turn over the cut part, insert into the bottle. Fix the edges with a stapler, adhesive tape, electrical tape or adhesive. Moment.
3. Set a trap in any convenient place or hang it from a chandelier, ceiling.

Sugar syrup is used as bait. Pour 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar in a pan, pour a little water so that the liquid slightly covers the grains of the main ingredient. Bring to a boil over low heat. Stir until completely dissolved, allow to cool slightly, pour into a bottle, coat the edges.

On a note!

To make the improvised device more effective, you should periodically breathe into the bottle. In this way, carbon dioxide accumulates inside, which attracts flies better than any other bait. You can catch pests in a few days.

Can

It is convenient to catch flies with a regular tin can from under pet food, conservation. They tear off the paper sticker, wash the jar, and dry it. Tape the outer part of the jar with tape, electrical tape, well pressed with your fingers. After a few minutes they peel off. The surface of the can became sticky.

If you use the trap in the dark, put a small flashlight in the jar, cover it with a lid. Install the structure in any convenient place where you want to catch pests.

On a note!

Instead duct tape it is allowed to use double-sided tape, which is not required to be torn off the can. To attract insects, you can drip honey or liquid jam on the surface.

Glass jar

You can catch flies in small banks.

1. They should be washed, dried.
2. Apple cider vinegar is poured inside.
3. Instead of a lid use cling film. It needs to be pressed tightly to the edges, fixed with electrical tape, tape. Carefully make holes with a toothpick, a sharp knife, so that the fly could get inside.

The trap will attract insects with the smell of sour apple cider vinegar. Once inside, the pest will not be able to get out. In this way, you can catch a huge number of flies. Reusable containers should be periodically emptied, rinsed, and the whole operation repeated. Pests will be caught as much as the smell that appeals to them from the trap.

Lures

Flies eat the juices of plants, rotting vegetables, fruits, meat, fish. Attracted by their smell is sour, the taste is sweet. As bait for makeshift traps using:

• sugar syrup;
• a piece of refined;
• apples, pears;
• raw meat;
• honey;
• Apple vinegar;
• fruit juice.

Most flies are attracted by the smell of rotten. If the trap is set on the street, you can lure with the missing meat, salad, borsch, beer, kvass.

For extermination of small flies and conventional house flies, it is recommended that you use several control methods. Do not forget about prevention - mosquito nets on windows, doors. Midsummer home house flies they just buzz, irritate the nervous system with their presence, in August they will be replaced lightersthat start to bite painfully cause an allergic reaction.