Subject: Zip lock baggie fly control
Worth trying when you are in a fly infested area or
on a picnic.
Love the fact that we aren't spraying chemicals to
kill the bugs and us
FYI
We went with some out of town friends to Sweety
Pies on Sunday for breakfast, and we sat in the enclosed patio section beside
the house.
We happened to notice a couple of zip lock baggies
pinned to a post and a wall. The bags were half filled with water, each
contained 4 pennies, and they
were zipped shut. Naturally we were curious! Ms
Sweety told us that these baggies kept the flies away! Sonaturally we were even
more curious! We actually
watched some flies come in the open window, stand
around on the window sill, and then fly out again. And there were no flies in
the eating area!
This morning I checked this out on Googgle.
Below are comments on this fly control idea. I'm
now a believer! More
Zip-lock water bags
Sue says: Many people swear
that a zip-lock bag filled half-way with water and attached over entry-ways will
repel flies. No one yet knows how or why it
works, but there is speculation
that it has something to do with the way the moving water refracts light. If you
have tried this please use the comments
form at the bottom of the page to
share your results with the rest of us. ann Says: October 5th, 2008 at 5:51 pm I
did tried the ziplock bag and pennies
this weekend. I have a horse trailer
with full LQ. The flys were very bad this weekend while I was camping. I put the
baggie with pennies above the door
of the LQ. NOT ONE FLY came in the
trailer. The horse trailer part had many. Not sure why it works but it
does!!!!!!! Danielle Martin Says: September 20th,
2008 at 8:43 pm Fill a
ziplock bag with water and 5 or 6 pennies and hang it in the problem area. In my
case it was a particular window in my home. It
had a slight but significant
passage way for insects.Every since I have done that, it has kept flies and
wasps away. Some say, that wasps and flies mistake
the bag for some sort of
other insect nest and are threatened by this. maggie Says: June 7th, 2009 at
11:40 am I swear by the plastic bag of water trick
I have them on side porch
( our house entry) and all around the basement door. We saw these in Northeast
Mo at an Amish grocery store & have used them
since. They say it works
because a fly sees a reflection & won't come around. Just DJ Says: May 16th,
2009 at 7:25 pm Regarding the science behind zip
log bags of water? My
research found that each of the millions of molecules of water presents its own
prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes,
to them it's like a
zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner.
When you figure that flies are basically prey for many
other bugs, animals,
birds, etc., they simply won't take the risk of being around that much perceived
action. I moved to a rural area ant thought these
"hillbillies" were just
yanking my city boy chain but I tried it, worked immediately! We went from
hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but
he don't hang around
long.