Flies / Fly repellant

If you want to keep flys away from your screen door area, take a ziploc baggie and fill it half full with water and put in fronting your screen door. I put a couple of penny's inside mine to make it more appealing. What will happen is the flies think that they're moving into some other animals territory, don't like the competition and will move on. Wasps and bees don't like it either.



For us, it seems to work just fine.




Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found that each of the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it's like a zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner. When you figure that flies are basically prey for many other bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won't take the risk of being around that much perceived action. I read about this once and thought these "hillbillies" were just yanking my country boy chain but I tried it, and it worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but he don't hang around long.







Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found
that each of the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism
effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it's like a
zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying
manner. When you figure that flies are basically prey for many other
bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won't take the risk of being
around that much perceived action. I moved to a rural area ant thought
these "hillbillies" were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it,
worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the
occasional one, but he don't hang around long.