FARM Fly strips

Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Is there anything to put on old school fly strips to make them more attractive to flys?

Some of them do good on their own and others don't catch anything.

Do different brands work better than others?
 
hiwall

hiwall

Has No Life - Lives on TB
If you are not catching flys on those strips even though they are plenty sticky, you just have to go to a dairy farm and get fresh manure and spread around close to the strips. After a few days (you must renew the manure daily) you will find many more flys sticking on those strips. :)
 
Cardinal

Cardinal

Chickministrator
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hiwall said:
If you are not catching flys on those strips even though they are plenty sticky, you just have to go to a dairy farm and get fresh manure and spread around close to the strips. After a few days (you must renew the manure daily) you will find many more flys sticking on those strips. :)
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I was gonna say, sh!t flavored strip do better.....
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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hiwall said:
If you are not catching flys on those strips even though they are plenty sticky, you just have to go to a dairy farm and get fresh manure and spread around close to the strips. After a few days (you must renew the manure daily) you will find many more flys sticking on those strips. :)
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I don't want to call in every fly from every surrounding county, just attract the ones that are here already. :lol:
 
BeeMan

BeeMan

Just buzzin along
If you do an internet search for something like DIY flystrips you should be able to find instructions on how to make your own. I’ve done it before and seem to recall molasses and strips of brown paper, as in the older style paper grocery bags. I have cows and have used lots of DIY attractants. Sugar, water, vinegar, and banana peel in a 2 liter soda bottle with a 1” hole cut about six inches or so from the top works well for me. Usually wind up having to clean them out frequently as they fill up with flys, paper wasps, and such. If you don’t add the vinegar you trap honeybees too, and we don’t want that.
BeeMan
 
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Pinecone

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Fly strips are great until your hens get into them. :shkr: Bad. Very bad. Everyone ends up sticky and no one is happy.
 
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Martinhouse

Deceased
I keep a fly strip above my kitchen sink every summer. It helps a lot to leave the light above the sink on all night. Or even all the time, for that matter.

Be interesting to see what a kitten would do with a fly strip!
 
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Freebirde

Senior Member
As in retail, it's Location, Location, Location. Bright, quiet, out of the way spot works best. Also some spots are prime, window near the toilet, near the trash can, or close to the back door.

"Be interesting to see what a kitten would do with a fly strip!"
When I worked pest control, we told customers that if animals get into the glue boards to use vegetable oil to get them free.
 
Walrus Whisperer

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
I had to rescue my cat from a sticky mouse trap a few years ago. The darn cat had himself in an unknown cat yoga position! It was pretty funny, that cat was madder than a hornet. Cooking oil removes it, he hated having his fur all messed up.
 
Ractivist

Ractivist

Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
I agree the light at night if all the rest are off draw them into the vicinity, in time it will catch them all if it's an enclosed space. Had a huge influx at the end of this butcher season. if the temps were lower than forty, they were dormant, at fifty they were flying around but low percentage getting on strip. I was leaving all the doors open to let fresh air in at end of season and dry out the moisture with the aid of a fan. Left the light on around strip, filled right up. Up unto that point there were other lights on, so I think it plays into it. Like fish and every bug that ever met your windshield, lights attract.
 
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Mary Contrary

Inactive
Millwright said:
Is there anything to put on old school fly strips to make them more attractive to flys?

Some of them do good on their own and others don't catch anything.

Do different brands work better than others?
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I read you are supposed to stick them in the corner of the wall or by the window. Mine work real good, but don't last long to stock up on. They get dry and are useless. Maybe one to three yrs. I don't remember how long.
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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There was that time at Deer Camp.... :D

Cows had been hanging around the camp house and flies were a HUGE problem.

We got into a multi-beer discussion on the best placement of fly strips.

Somehow, in all of our infinite wisdom...:lol: we hung them in the spot that was personally deemed to be the most effective.

Every time a fly got caught in someone's designated strip, they had a shot of cheep vodka that had been hiding in the back of the cabinet.

I think the flies won. :lkick:
 
Jackpine Savage

Jackpine Savage

Veteran Member
I just hung a few older fly strips a few days ago and they don't seem to be doing much either.

But it does depend on what type of flies are around. If you are battling stable flies, the biting bastards, they aren't attracted to the same type of smelly things.

I used to battle house flies when running the dairy, especially around the calves. It could be a nightmare if you didn't stay ahead of it. Used to get some sticky tape that was so sticky it caught a few small birds.

I think it was this stuff here if you really want to go to war :D

Amazon.com : Coburn SI1008 Sticky Roll Fly Tape 1000' Deluxe Kit with Hardware : Garden & Outdoor

Amazon.com : Coburn SI1008 Sticky Roll Fly Tape 1000' Deluxe Kit with Hardware : Garden & Outdoor
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