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Easier fly traps from 2 liter or 3 liter bottles
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<blockquote data-quote="CosbyArt" data-source="post: 283096" data-attributes="member: 8168"><p>The wire is just to poke holes through the plastic pieces. Fishing line is used as the thread to actually sew it together. The low temp should work fine but I have no idea how the bottle plastic will react, that's why I did not recommend it. Let me know how it goes for you though.</p><p></p><p>Two improvements I might suggest to you is to use a paint marker or such to color the cone piece to make the entrance more obvious to them (blue seems to attract flies). The other is to leave the cap on the cone piece (inside the trap) - however, drill out a 1/2" hole in the cap to allow flies in still but help prevent them from escaping.</p><p></p><p>My 2 liter traps have obviously been capturing flies as one of them has maggots inside, but there have been few to collect as feeders. I think more than anything it is the colder 60 degree nights lately (one crazy summer) as I haven't had any inside the house lately either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CosbyArt, post: 283096, member: 8168"] The wire is just to poke holes through the plastic pieces. Fishing line is used as the thread to actually sew it together. The low temp should work fine but I have no idea how the bottle plastic will react, that's why I did not recommend it. Let me know how it goes for you though. Two improvements I might suggest to you is to use a paint marker or such to color the cone piece to make the entrance more obvious to them (blue seems to attract flies). The other is to leave the cap on the cone piece (inside the trap) - however, drill out a 1/2" hole in the cap to allow flies in still but help prevent them from escaping. My 2 liter traps have obviously been capturing flies as one of them has maggots inside, but there have been few to collect as feeders. I think more than anything it is the colder 60 degree nights lately (one crazy summer) as I haven't had any inside the house lately either. [/QUOTE]
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