Hi i put this on another forum, it may make your travels more pleasant:)
This time of year all the rednecks invade our favorite bush camp sites. They don't bury cover their waste and the weekend after hundreds of baby blowflies will be buzzing about.
here's a good trick to get rid of them
1) put up a small tent -just the inner bit will do. If it has two openings zip one up. 2) Slowly cook a sausage and some onion (by now you should have lots of flies buzzing about 3) Place the food on a plate, some newspaper or a political advert. Then put it in tent. 4) Leave one side of the tent opened until it fills with flies. Then zip it up. 5) Then hit them high and hit thme low.
Repeats steps 4+5 until your campsite is free of these young blowies. Open tent and pour out the blowies, shovel them onto the fire so as not to feed the ants.
I did this at Meroo (killed over 500) and had no blowies for months, As you have broken the breeding cycle!.
(will work in your backyard as well, if having friends over for a BBQ, do the above a couple of hours before they arrive.
shazartist said
08:58 AM Oct 4, 2011
What a great tip, Thanks.....off to by the tent!
jimbo said
09:30 AM Oct 4, 2011
Been doing that for years Mate Great idea
Happywanderer said
11:01 AM Oct 4, 2011
What a great story. Very similiar to the bottle I got from Bunnings. You hang it at the back door with some smelly green stuff in it. Gosh knows where all the blowflies come from. I've never seen so many. It fills up quick, you empty it and start again. Thought of taking it on the road with me but couldn't stand the stink en route. You really don't want to hang it too close to the back door either, those flies can be overpowering buzzing around trying to get into the jar.
Beth54 said
06:09 PM Oct 4, 2011
Great idea! I don't have a small tent, but I suppose I could use the ensuite tent. I'd have to make sure all the killing was done before I need to use the ensuite.
Marj, what if you tie it up tight in a plastic bag? Would that contain the smell?
Happywanderer said
06:13 PM Oct 4, 2011
I wouldn 't want to use the en suite tent Beth. A bit risky. I think the stinky jar would have to be carried in maybe a screw top container. It is reeaally stink.
dogbox said
07:56 PM Oct 4, 2011
that bottle you buy from bunnings works great. even better if you buy them for the neibours an hang them in thier back yards as they seem to attract a lot of flies
Beth54 said
08:20 PM Oct 4, 2011
Happywanderer wrote:
I wouldn 't want to use the en suite tent Beth. A bit risky. I think the stinky jar would have to be carried in maybe a screw top container. It is reeaally stink.
Yes, I suppose so. I'll get one of the smelly things then.
stoney123 said
08:17 AM Oct 5, 2011
The tent idea was for quick kill. The tent i am talking about is <$20 from k or w. I liked the idea of the toilet tent!! Remember you dont need much spray as you are spraying a small enclosed space, and the cintronella smell will air out. After all people spray in their homes.
Looking into getting a mossie attractor next to work like above. If I worked for switch'n'stitch i suppose we would use george for bait.
"I just sit here do i" ....george
sharon said
11:36 AM Oct 5, 2011
Hi, What a brilliant idea. thanks. i will go to the op shop and see if they have an old small tent suitable. should do the trick. cheers.
Onedodger said
04:30 PM Oct 5, 2011
dogbox wrote:
that bottle you buy from bunnings works great. even better if you buy them for the neibours an hang them in thier back yards as they seem to attract a lot of flies
Now thats what I call thinking out of the Yard.
Or you could buy your neighbour one of those 240v zapper blur light appliances.
-- Edited by Onedodger on Wednesday 5th of October 2011 04:32:39 PM
Ma said
05:46 PM Oct 5, 2011
We have a zapper blue light thingy and believe me it attracts all sorts of insects and moths so whatever you do don't hang it near where you are sitting.
Hanging it in the neighbours yard is essential........
Hi i put this on another forum, it may make your travels more pleasant:)
This time of year all the rednecks invade our favorite bush camp sites. They don't bury cover their waste and the weekend after hundreds of baby blowflies will be buzzing about.
here's a good trick to get rid of them
1) put up a small tent -just the inner bit will do. If it has two openings zip one up.
2) Slowly cook a sausage and some onion (by now you should have lots of flies buzzing about
3) Place the food on a plate, some newspaper or a political advert. Then put it in tent.
4) Leave one side of the tent opened until it fills with flies. Then zip it up.
5) Then hit them high and hit thme low.
Repeats steps 4+5 until your campsite is free of these young blowies. Open tent and pour out the blowies, shovel them onto the fire so as not to feed the ants.
I did this at Meroo (killed over 500) and had no blowies for months, As you have broken the breeding cycle!.
(will work in your backyard as well, if having friends over for a BBQ, do the above a couple of hours before they arrive.
Very similiar to the bottle I got from Bunnings. You hang it at the back door with some smelly green stuff in it. Gosh knows where all the blowflies come from. I've never seen so many. It fills up quick, you empty it and start again.
Thought of taking it on the road with me but couldn't stand the stink en route. You really don't want to hang it too close to the back door either, those flies can be overpowering buzzing around trying to get into the jar.
Great idea! I don't have a small tent, but I suppose I could use the ensuite tent. I'd have to make sure all the killing was done before I need to use the ensuite.
Marj, what if you tie it up tight in a plastic bag? Would that contain the smell?
I think the stinky jar would have to be carried in maybe a screw top container. It is reeaally stink.
Yes, I suppose so. I'll get one of the smelly things then.
The tent idea was for quick kill. The tent i am talking about is <$20 from k or w. I liked the idea of the toilet tent!! Remember you dont need much spray as you are spraying a small enclosed space, and the cintronella smell will air out. After all people spray in their homes.
Looking into getting a mossie attractor next to work like above. If I worked for switch'n'stitch i suppose we would use george for bait.
"I just sit here do i" ....george
Hi, What a brilliant idea. thanks. i will go to the op shop and see if they have an old small tent suitable. should do the trick. cheers.
Now thats what I call thinking out of the Yard.
Or you could buy your neighbour one of those 240v zapper blur light appliances.
-- Edited by Onedodger on Wednesday 5th of October 2011 04:32:39 PM
We have a zapper blue light thingy and believe me it attracts all sorts of insects and moths so whatever you do don't hang it near where you are sitting.
Hanging it in the neighbours yard is essential........