Posted on 07/28/2006 4:46:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Deer flies are the flies that buzz around your head when you go walking in or near the woods during the summertime (especially late June ot early August). These things make a walk in the woods miserable as they constantly dive-bomb your head - and if given a chance - will suck a copious amount of blood out of you by ripping open your skin with their jaws. Swatting these flies does not good. They just keep coming and coming.
For several years now, I have been buying the TRED-NOT deer fly strips. You put the strips on the back of a baseball hat and the biting flies are attracted to it. But once they land on it, there is no getting off.
I capture as many as 30 flies during my walks with this strip. I come home, peel the strip off and put on another strip for my next hike. No bites, no aggravation.
I only post this because nobody else seems to know about these strips. I show family and friends and they are amazed. (Some - usually women - are grossed out. But it's better to be grossed out then to be bitten.)
So................
Where do ya get 'em???
I need 'em.
Muy Bueno!!
It would work better if it were light blue, seriously, U.N. blue seems to attract yellowflies and horseflies.
Wish we could find something sticky like that for red wasps - they are under all the corners of our house and garage and you really have to watch where you walk. We spray the corners but in a few days they are back.
Know anything for skeeters?
Thanks for the tip and the ping....Might work.
Becky
Well at least the little suckers that get stuck to the tape aren't gonna buzz you any more!
It's no more EWWW, then smacking one and having it blow up blood all over you:) I've had them speckle my face with blood when I've smacked them off the horses necks...
Becky
I think the "Ew" factor for me, is not so much that they're stuck to the adhesive, so much as their stuck to the adhesive that's on the back of the guy's head. So it's location, location, location in other words. :-)
Folks down here (Mobile) use real sticky black balloon things that are suspended from trees and such. They move around in the breezes and the flies are attracted and are caught on the 'balloon.'
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