YELLOW FLIES!!!!! AKA Deer Flies

[phiferpharm]

Reading the literature indicated that those traps are not effective unless they are moving. Attach to vehicles, hats, cows, etc. Some have used them on a line or pole where they could move with the breeze.

Also more effective over a meter high.

Could be a new tractor attachment!

Gotcha - They are up about 6 feet and moving with the breeze on string lines. If I get any action on them, I'll attach some to my tractor canopy with string. I also remembered I made a funky rig last year(?) with a umbrella attached to wind-up rotating disk. Now if I can just find darn thing...

 

[the old grind]

Nice move, Doug, hanging 'up there' with a bit of sway for movement. :thumbsup: Thought about putting a black trash bag over a wire hanger with the blue cup atop that and dangling it out in the open, say on my clothesline or off a post ('hangman'-style) by the dock, compost pile, or shooting berms. I did buy (mouse) glue traps to spoon out the goo after hearing that spray-on tanglefoot is lacking, but haven't tried that out. (Didn't somebody wrap-on hanging fly strips?)

btw: I won't wear the hat anymore when hanging my wash on a breezy day ... well, not after gumming-up a t-shirt or pillow-case here & there. :ashamed: (life is a learning process ...)

 

[phiferpharm]

Yup, it seems to be working okay...

 

[Boondox]

I use Deer Fly Strips. They are flesh colored double sided tape that you put on the top of a dark colored ball cap. They buzz my face. I swat them away. They rise above me and see what they think is bare skin. They get stuck. Others see their kind getting a drink on bare skin and join them. At the end of a day I've had as many as three dozen of the little &#!@&! stuck on the tape dying a slow death.

 

[SPIKER]

I welded up a Rebar Trellis today and was painting it with a brush outside, must have been 50 of them buggers after me... I need some of them blue cups with fly goo on it..

Mark

 

[dave1949]

Deer fly hang around my loader hydraulic cylinders, mostly near the warm grease at the ends. They like the smell of grease, or heat attracts them, maybe both.

 

[rekees4300]

I use Deer Fly Strips.

Ditto, I also use those and they work well. Available at Amazon, called "12 / Pk Deerfly Patches / TredNot Deer Fly Patch / Traps. Repellent Strips" for $7.80. A 12 pack gets me thru the Summer but they are available in larger quantities if needed.

 

[s219]

Tried the blue cup with Tanglefoot goo this morning on our walk, and it worked great! Caught 8 flies in about 30 minutes, and a huge reduction in the annoyance factor. My wife is sold.

I put two slits in the cup and slid it over the strap at the back of my ball cap. About 3/4 of the cup was covered in goo, as well as the top.

 

[dave1949]

Tried the blue cup with Tanglefoot goo this morning on our walk, and it worked great! Caught 8 flies in about 30 minutes, and a huge reduction in the annoyance factor. My wife is sold.

I put two slits in the cup and slid it over the strap at the back of my ball cap. About 3/4 of the cup was covered in goo, as well as the top.

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Well done.

 

[s219]

Well done.

I wish all my experimental projects were this effective and this cheap.... Really nice to see an old-time simple fix work so well. Have to thank Baby Grand for posting the idea!!