If you own a homestead, farm or ranch where animals or livestock are kept, you know full well that flys are an issue every spring, summer and well into the fall. Only winter brings a temporary relief from the nagging pests. They get in the house and are just a constant aggressor to your comfort. Not to mention they can spread disease. The fly that is now sitting on your kitchen counter was an hour earlier outside sitting around a manure pile.
You will find all kinds of methods to killing flys and we have tried many of them.
The reviews were phenomenal! Ranchers, farmers and livestock owners raved about these traps. The only downside is that they can be pricey. However, unlike MOST fly traps out there where you have to dispose of it and then buy more, these keep working all season every season. With the added bonus that the collected flys can be used for chicken food with no harm to your flock.
So this year, we decided to give it a go and we bought two for the homestead to see how it performs.
Introducing the Arbico Organics Solar Fly Trap!
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@mericanhomestead when I first seen your post, I thought "If I can turn the flies into fish and chicken food, I'm in." After watching, yes you can. Truefully thou, I can make that trap with of 2 or 3 old kitchen strainer and some odds and ends. All I need Is a jug of their junk.
I'll be watching for your results. Becouse I have this on fly to get ride of.
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We've put up over 100 bird boxes on our farm. That has helped immensely. Bluebird/swallow boxes
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We would love to do purple martins but people have told us they don't do well here.
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Are you talking about those barn swallows that like to swoop and dive? We have those around here and we do not care for them lol!
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NO, they're not barn swallows. They are tree swallows. They and the bluebirds eat about 600-800 flying insects a day. :)
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Phew! I was gunna say, those barn swallows are nasty buggers! I’ve heard from people building bat boxes to keep mosquitos at bay, but never heard of using bluebirds or swallows. That is impressive!
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what?
no laser death machine?
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Where can I get one of those! LOL
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I dunno...but I'd sure like to have one...(or twenty)
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Harbor freight has a tennis racket looking battery powered bug zapper that is close, ROFLOL!
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naw...it's not EVEN close.
I have one...kinda fun
but that's all it is...fun.
It doesn't significantly reduce the flying insect problem.
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I got it for pantry moths that came in in some dog food. It does work very well on them, but flies are almost too fast for it.
It is a satisfying sizzle when you do get a fly though, LOL.
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It buzzes pretty good for skeeters too.
'damn flies'
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This fly trap should hurt the population there. BUT, he should get one of these zappers for backup and fun, LOL!
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Sharing to show what you use!
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THANKS!
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It must be stinky, even the cat had to shake off the smell! I hope the flytraps work well over the warmer months. Maybe you'll show us multitude of fly corpses! @ironshield
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My Dad made a trap like this when I was a kid. He took two wooden squares, and cut a round hole in one. That hole held the cone shaped screen wire. He wrapped the same wire around the outside of the squares, and nailed 1x2 boards on each corner for feet. Placing kitchen scraps that were allowed to rot underneath, added the needed bait. Worked Very well, these should too!
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I like it! We need something like that for around the horse barn.
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Blake, are bees safe from this? I'm assuming the smell would repel them away from the trap. Your thoughts?
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It seems an excellent method to kill the flies. I do not know if in my country I can get the materials to do it. Thanks for sharing.
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I will be interested in seeing how successful this is. $86 is a lot of dough to be spending on a fly trap, but if it works as well as they say it does...
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I spend almost double that on the hanging fly traps though in a year.
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i love that the flies can be collected and used as feed after!
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