Now that LB can open doors, and Puppy likes to be let out but not locked out, we've had a million flies enter the house. It was getting to the point where I was using the swatter to kill about ten a day. Gross. So I went to the Outdoor Center and bought a fly trap. It's the kind that's just a roll of sticky paper.
When I took it out of the box, I put it on the windowsill, out of LB's reach, but near where the flies congregate. Inside the box were two packets of Sex A-Trax. Woah. Apparently, it's this stuff that flies are, like, wicked into... kinda gross to think that flies have sex drives. Anyway, it said to sprinkle it on the fly trap. To quote: "To enhance housefly attraction,... sprinkle entire contents of Housefly Sex A-Trax over... sticky area of the Stick-A-Fly Trap."
I didn't think I'd need it, but after an hour, it had only caught two flies, so I thought, what the hell. I sprinkled it on, then waited. After two hours (two hours), there were 22 flies on the trap! I didn't even realize there were that many in the house! By the end of the day, I had counted 44 flies and 1 mosquito (with an apparent identity crisis).
I don't know what's more gross- having 44 flies in your house (thank you LB & Puppy... I don't have enough to do around here), or needing to use housefly pheromones.
2 comments:
Damn! Your sill was a hot bed of LUVVVVVV for the houseflies! I'm secretly grossed out and intrigued at the same time! :)
Yeah, I thought the last thing I needed were the flies getting it on, making more flies for me to kill! But it turned out well.
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