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Bags of water hung to keep flies away
United Press International ^ | UPI

Posted on 08/26/2006 12:39:07 AM PDT by carlo3b

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To: carlo3b

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


41 posted on 08/26/2006 6:09:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: carlo3b
Dang. I live in Orlando, and I've never seen this. I wonder where this author eats?
42 posted on 08/26/2006 6:10:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: carlo3b

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


43 posted on 08/26/2006 6:13:40 AM PDT by PjhCPA
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To: carlo3b

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.





44 posted on 08/26/2006 6:21:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: carlo3b

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


45 posted on 08/26/2006 6:21:34 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: carlo3b

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

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


46 posted on 08/26/2006 6:21:40 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: arthurus

Does this work for ticks?


47 posted on 08/26/2006 6:26:09 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Will someone PLEASE put a sock in Bill Richardson's flappin' pie hole???)
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To: carlo3b

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.


48 posted on 08/26/2006 6:30:53 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (The rest of this tag is written in invisible ink)
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To: Condor51
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.
49 posted on 08/26/2006 6:32:29 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (What Darwin denied he now regrets)
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HI I'M BILLY MAYS FOR WATER BAGS
50 posted on 08/26/2006 6:38:12 AM PDT by Hazcat
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To: carlo3b

bump


51 posted on 08/26/2006 6:39:24 AM PDT by VOA
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To: carlo3b
Would this bag of water attract or repel flies?


52 posted on 08/26/2006 6:45:58 AM PDT by GreenAccord (I just spell-checked MOONBAT. Shouldn't that be in the FR lexicon as a valid word?)
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To: BereanBrain
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.

53 posted on 08/26/2006 6:47:11 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: 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...

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

54 posted on 08/26/2006 6:49:30 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: GreenAccord
Would this bag of water attract or repel flies?

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

55 posted on 08/26/2006 6:54:46 AM PDT by Hazcat
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To: carlo3b
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.

56 posted on 08/26/2006 6:54:57 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: carlo3b

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


57 posted on 08/26/2006 6:56:37 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: yankeedame

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.


58 posted on 08/26/2006 6:57:21 AM PDT by pepperdog
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To: Zechariah_8_13

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


59 posted on 08/26/2006 6:58:56 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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To: carlo3b

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.


60 posted on 08/26/2006 7:05:08 AM PDT by weef
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