Homemade traps for gadflies and horseflies

Gadfly Fight in the summer is a real problem. Classic remedies mosquitoes and midges cannot solve it due to the low concentration of active components and moreover they will not help to protect large areas. Making traps from gadflies and horseflies with your own hands is not difficult, and their effectiveness is not inferior to industrial expensive options.

What can be useful for manufacturing

To build a trap yourself, you will need to purchase the necessary materials. They are publicly available and have a low cost. A future trap for gadflies and horseflies will consist of:

1. Gymnastic hoop. The circumference of the product is 305 cm. The approximate cost is 250-350 rubles.
2. Gym ball with a diameter of 75 cm. Its price is about 300 rubles.
3. Reinforced polyethylene. Necessary canvas sizes 3x1 meters. The average cost is about 100-150 rubles.
4. 2 pcs water bottle The required volumes are 5 and 2 liters. Both will cost 100 rubles.
5. Nitro enamel. Enough half of the can. The cost of 50 rubles.
6. For connections and assembly of the structure, two types of rails of 6x1 m and 3x1.5 m are also useful. The price is within 100 rubles.

Additionally, you need to prepare brackets, rope, screws, plastic pipe. All of these items will cost about 100 rubles.

On a note!

As a result, the cost of a home-made trap for gadfly and horseflies is an average of 700-1000 rubles. Some of the necessary elements will certainly be found in the barn or closet, so the financial cost of manufacturing the device can be reduced.

Such an invention is sufficient to reduce pests such as gadgets 90-95% on an area of ​​up to 0.5 ha. Production time without any skills and experience is 1.5-2 hours.

Assembly order

First you need to connect the basis of the structure. To do this, you need reiki and a hoop.

1. The slats are fastened with the base to the hoop around the entire perimeter so that at the top they converge and form a conical shape.
2. At the top of the cone is fixed a trap for horseflies and gadflies, which is a cropped plastic ring. A cut-off plastic bottle with the narrow side up should tightly enter inside it.
3. A plastic bottle of 5 liters is put on top of this design.
4. Trap for gadflies and horseflies is ready. Now you need to tighten the conical base with a light cloth or gauze.
5. In the center of a kind of tent, a black gymnastic ball is fixed. If you can’t get black, then you will have to paint it yourself using a spray can.

Horseflies and gadflies, upon seeing a figure resembling a victim, will flock to it. Having discovered that this is not a food source, the insect will rise vertically and fall into a trap, from which it will be impossible to get out.

Principle of operation

The gadfly trap is a simple design that will resemble the body of cattle by an insect. Insects perceive only light or dark colors, therefore, when constructing a trap, the elements of black and white should be taken advantage of.

A dark ball heated by the rays of the sun will attract pests.Having flown as close to it as possible and realizing that this is not an animal, gadflies and horseflies will begin to climb up the manufactured dome and cater directly to the trap.

On a note!

Over the summer, using a trap on gadfly and horseflies, it is possible to catch up to 25,000 individuals. If the trap is additionally treated with special insecticides, the number of destroyed gadflies and horseflies will increase significantly.

Other varieties of makeshift traps can also be found. The principle of action remains the same. You can do without a gymnastic ball. In this case, it will be necessary to build a frame from the rails, resembling the torso of an animal and cover it with dark cloth. At the end of such an invention, a pest trap is also constructed.

User Feedback

To get a more complete picture of the effectiveness of the use of home-made traps of gadflies and horseflies, you should read the reviews of those who have already personally tested the invention.

There are three small children in our family. In summer, there are always a lot of gadflies near the house. Knowing that a simple cream, not even the most advertised, could be saved, we decided to try a homemade trap. Made her in just an hour alone with her husband. Within half an hour, there were fewer insects. They did not completely disappear, but even such a result was enough to understand that the traps really work.

Angelina Matveeva, Astrakhan Region

They decided in the village to build one trap for testing. Almost everything that was needed was found at home, they only had to buy a gym ball. Instead of a hoop, a plastic pipe was used. One trap set in the garden was enough to spend time quietly in the yard and not be afraid to get gadfly bite. Now we want to build another one to put sheep near the pasture.

Natalia, Sverdlovsk

Horse traps will help protect not only people, but also entire herds of pets. Just a couple of pieces will be a reliable protection for the whole livestock.