Submitted 1 day ago by shalafi@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
Also, they’re sensitive to moving shadows. As with motion sensors, if you move slowly enough, they cannot sense you. Slowly circle behind them and they jump into your death mitts.
My go-to trick is to get a water bottle that sprays an aerosolized mist and just spritz the area liberally.
Most insects(?) can’t fly with wet wings and become easy to handle.
Add something a little viscose to the solution like a mild cleaning product to gunk up their wings. Then SPLAT!
but then i will feel bad when i change it to long range squirt mode and get the mean outside cat with it
I didn’t know I was supposed to get a crushing hand. I only got these two flimsy ones.
There are these particularly annoying flies that I encountered in Florida. When they land you can blow on them which will cause them to hunker down and brace against the wind leaving them vulnerable to a swat
Interesting technique
I never kill flies. I just feel bad. I do, however, trap them in a glass beaker and release them outside. It’s super-easy, you just go slow. Once they settle, slowly lower the glass over them. Then slide a bit of card between the glass and the surface and transport them outside.
Honestly, I have no idea why I do this. Maybe I subconsciously hope these small acts will balance my karma and somehow negate my illegal IPTV subscription.
I try not to kill anything but flies (overwhelming in the summer), cockroaches inside, and fire ants (invasive and destructive). I refuse to use poisons or herbicides, only fire ant bait.
Keep on! I’ve seen our insect populations crash since I was a child and the upstream ecosystem is suffering. Young people would be fucking appalled if they emotionally knew what I knew, seen what I’ve seen.
But good news! Our yard is the only reason we have frogs and dragonflies back on the block! More to come.
I just blow em away with this bad boy. Best 50 bucks I ever spent. So much entertainment.
Bug-a-salt is the key. It’s especially satisfying when you snipe one out of the air.
I’ve got one! Annoyed my wife leaving salt all over the kitchen window sill.
Yeah, cleanup is annoying, but I think it’s worth it.
Was going to say the same. I’ve had a few of these over the years (they’re cheap plastic and break). But they are amazing.
I have a moth problem right now but they are no match for this. The salt gets sprayed like a shotgun blast and will get them as long as you shot in their general area.
I also use it on spiders. Every summer I have black widows around the house and this thing works wonders on them.
Just try not to drop them or keep the salt loaded in them too long. Those two things seem to be what has killed my previous ones more often.
Pro tip, you can mix kosher salt in with table salt for a deadlier load.
Move slow enough too and a fly won’t percieve you moving very well. Benn Jordan’s video about what the world sounds like to different animals taught me that.
11 minutes in for the insect segment: https://youtu.be/Gvg242U2YfQ
You talk like someone who doesn’t have carnivorous plants.
😂
Also, their night vision is terrible.
Any kind of spray you have lying around should make their wings too laden to fly. Simple Green, Windex, Axe Body Spray, etc. Could probably just be a spray bottle with water too.
Then you can do what you will with them.
Man… I’m way to tired. I red your post as “Houses” (without the fly part) and I was so confused why you want to catch a house and if this is some kind of surreal post. Nope, just can’t read, houses can’t jump.
And I somehow managed to read “house fires” and I was confused how fire launched backwards for a moment.
I kiie to get a dishcloth and whip them.
clapping with both hands works too
“Mom, mom” —said the little fly— “humans really like us, they saw me and started to clap non-stop”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Orrrrrrrrrr, and hear me out…
You build a tiny replica house so that the fly isn’t homeless. Then he’ll leave you alone.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Build him a garage and leave the door open and watch him lose his mind trying to get one of his buddies out of it.