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You catch more flies...
Jul. 10th, 2008 11:17 pmIt turns out you can actually catch flies with vinegar. We have lots of fresh produce in the house, and thus have fruit flies. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adlight made some traps. The way you do this is:
Take a plastic bottle and cut off the top
Fill the bottle about halfway with apple cider vinegar
Use hard paper (like card stock) to make a funnel with a very small hole at the bottom
Tape this funnel into the bottle, such that the funnel is the only entrance in, there's a bit of space between the funnel and the vinegar, and the hole is as small as it can possibly be that would still allow the flies in.
Set it near the fruit, or whatever they seem to be flying around. Then watch them drown. Or forget the trap exists and pretend that there are no fruit flies interrupting your peaceful meal.
Yeah. So the old adage "you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar" may not necessarily be true, but really we need to make a trap with honey to test this empirically. Though that would be a waste of good honey.
adlight made some traps. The way you do this is:Take a plastic bottle and cut off the top
Fill the bottle about halfway with apple cider vinegar
Use hard paper (like card stock) to make a funnel with a very small hole at the bottom
Tape this funnel into the bottle, such that the funnel is the only entrance in, there's a bit of space between the funnel and the vinegar, and the hole is as small as it can possibly be that would still allow the flies in.
Set it near the fruit, or whatever they seem to be flying around. Then watch them drown. Or forget the trap exists and pretend that there are no fruit flies interrupting your peaceful meal.
Yeah. So the old adage "you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar" may not necessarily be true, but really we need to make a trap with honey to test this empirically. Though that would be a waste of good honey.
