Bags of water hung to keep flies away

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[Brilliant]

I live in Florida, and I've never seen this.

[Brilliant]

Dang. I live in Orlando, and I've never seen this. I wonder where this author eats?

[PjhCPA]

I saw the same thing at Betty's Pies, Two Harbors, Minnesota.

[Right Wing Assault]

Why chase them away? They are terrorists. Kill them.

Get a dog. Let it crap in your yard. Wait a few minutes and the crap will be covered with flies. Sneak up with a can of Raid and you've got 30 seriously sprayed flies. They will soon die. They won't land on the sprayed crap, so wait till your dog does another dump and repeat the process. I have taken out thousands this summer. It's great fun during breaks while painting the house.

Every one of the little sucker you kill is one less to breed and lay more fly eggs.

It's just like Iraq.

[RGSpincich]

We use water balloons. Flies are hard to hit, works better on the neighbors.

[ReignOfError]

Hmmmm. Large containers of standing water. So you can repel flies, but breed mosquitos.

Doesn't sound like much of a winner to me.

[greyfoxx39]

Does this work for ticks?

[Hot Tabasco]

Here in Michigan we find the water bags work best in January after they have frozen solid. My back deck is loaded with them and I guarantee you wont find a single fly in the entire subdivision till at least April after the frozen bags melt.........I think the area of repelancy increases with the number of bags you have set out.

[reagan_fanatic]

Hi! I'm Billy Mays for "Water Bags"!

Remember, this must be done in an extremely loud, almost screaming voice that causes your teeth to grind, or you lose the whole effect.

[Hazcat]

HI I'M BILLY MAYS FOR WATER BAGS

[VOA]

bump

[GreenAccord]

Would this bag of water attract or repel flies?

[yankeedame]

This has absolutely nothing to do with what you were talking about but husband is a car salesman and the dealership had one car that was always getting pooped on by passing birds -- esp. geese. I don't mean a drop here and a drop there. I mean, **PLOP**, **PLOP**, **PLOP** cream-corn-from-the-sky stuff.

Turns out that a certain silvery/white colored car parked right along the birds fly-way. The sun glinted off the car's surface. The birds -- esp. the geese -- got startled en mass and bombs away.

[yankeedame]

Here in Michigan we find the water bags work best in January after they have frozen solid. My back deck is loaded with them and I guarantee you wont find a single fly in the entire subdivision...

You bet! And as an added benefit those things keep away giraffes too. Ah me, isn't folk-science wonderful?

[Hazcat]

Would this bag of water attract or repel flies?

Attracts flies, repels humans (and cats, dogs, etc)

[Dustbunny]

When we lived on the Virginia Eastern Shore, green head flies were a huge problem. A friend gave my husband plans to build a fly catcher, it was made of plywood and screen in a V shape with the screen on top and painted black. The flies went in but could not get out. It worked really well.

Now that we are back home in farm country we use fly stips. Will have to try the water bags next year.

[Corin Stormhands]

I have a neighbor that grew up in Hawaii. She swears by this method.

[pepperdog]

I once had a blue-gray car that was a special target for birds. I couldn't believe it when, one day, I walked into the parking lot where approximately 7,000 cars were parked and only MY CAR was covered with bird poop. It was really strange.

[Ready4Freddy]

Saw this at a restaurant in Kerrville overlooking the river in the late 80's / early 90's.

[weef]

This is an urban legend. I had a very bad fly problem earlier this summer in TX and a native Texan neighbor suggested the bag of water trick. It did absolutely nothing. I stopped by our Sears hardware store and they were selling fly traps - it's basically a plastic cup and a lid with special holes that flies can get in to but not out of. You mix a green powder with water to produce a sometime foul smelling liquid and before you know the cup if filled with hundreds of flies. Works like a charm. The cup filled with dead flies does get disgusting after a while though.