Stopped by my girlfriends grandfathers ranch a while back, and there were ziplock bags with water, hanging all over the place. Aunt said they repel flying pests better than anything she's ever used!

Anyone else ever heard of, or used this method??

 

Seen it, yes. Does it work, NO. I was eating at an open air restaurant and there were bags hanging all over. It didn't bother the flies that were more interested in my club sandwich.

 

The Cubans here in Miami do that a lot. As a matter of fact my niegbors do it. However it is not water, it is Vinegar in the bag. The main purpose was for Fly's. It works, they had a Rottwieler that lived outside, and it's food was under the patio, no Fly's. That was pretty impressive for Miami in the summertime!!!!
Al

 

The first time I ever saw the water filled bags was at a Rudy's BBQ in Austin, TX. I'm a Montana boy and had never seen that before. I concluded that either there are no flies in Austin, or the bags were working because I didn't see a single fly!

 

Don't know about the bags, but here's a link to a pesticide free trap designed and built in Africa. A woman I talked with built one and put it near her manure pile and said it kept her horses fly free.

I'll be experimenting with it next spring. One of my horses is allergic to biting noseeums, and doesn't like fly sprays much either.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/smihok/Nzi.htm

 

I have seen them only in Texas, they say the fly sees his reflection in the bag and it appears to the fly as a BIG creature and they vammoose!

 

Try saying that 3 tims real fast!

When I moved into my house last year there were some baggies hanging in the garage, and now I know why. You can learn something new everyday on this site!

 

I stopped at a Mexican resturant in Arizona last fall and saw bags hanging from the ceiling. It was vinegar in them and therewere no fly's around...so who can say? Maybe it was how clean the place was?

 

If you are having problems with spiders building webs underneath your overhangs/carports/covered walkways, paint them a light blue. For some reason it keeps them away also.

 

I heard that it was traditional in some areas to paint a porch ceiling sky blue. The reason given was that wasps would not try to build a nest in the middle of the sky.

Cheers,
Eric

 

that might be why I guess...it does also keep mud dobbers and wsps away along with spiders.

 

It is water in the bags, and it only works if used properly. You put them by entrances of a house, or by windows that are left open and have no screen. The reason behind it is it tricks the flies into thinking it is a wasp nest, because they see the shape of the object, and it resembles a nest, and the natural enemy of flies is the wasp. Paul Harvey did his "now this is the rest of the story" about this about a year ago.

 

Cutting a 2 litre pop bottle (plastic torpedo) and inverting the top that you've cut off and sticking spout down into the bottom section with a couple of inches of water and a bit of meat of some kind. That'll catch hornets by the bucket.

 

I have seen it in a restaurant once, it didn't work.

 

Ive used it... seems to only work by doorways/windows as mentioned above
Now putting meat in a 2 liter bottle like that w/ meat in it could get stinky.