How To Catch Flies

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How to catch flies Nov 09, 2009
As funny/wierd/sick it may sound, i have always been curious about how people think about ways to catch those tiny r@scals

My trick would be:

Put some yoghurt in a plastic cover
Leave it open until the flies settle
Wrap up the cover as quickly as possible!

Anyone with a better tactic?

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Nov 09, 2009
Empty 2 litre plastic coke bottle
1.5 cups of water
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of vinegar
+/- 1m of string
Small piece of meat (OPTIONAL)
Serving spoon of Syrup (OPTIONAL)

This works, tried and tested by yours truly
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Nov 09, 2009
Cover yourself in honey (preferably dark honey).
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Nov 09, 2009
in my home country they sell anti-flies paper covered with some special sticky thing (become like sticker paper) to attract the flies. lie the paper on some strategic places where there are lots of flies (e.g. near meat/foods). the flies stick on the paper to throw away.

but i rarely seen flies here, even around big garbage bins on the street side. at least not as many as in tropical countries.
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Nov 10, 2009
get a frog or a venus flytrap
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Nov 10, 2009
Let some gheckos loose in your house.

Better still head to Dragon mart, but some of those little electrocuting tennis rackets and run around the house swatting them. Hours of fun and great exercise.
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Nov 10, 2009
catch em with your hands but you got to be pretty fast :D like bruce lee or something :D mind you its not impossible as I have done it so many times.
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Nov 10, 2009
pretty fast? :D lol

I ve heard that a fly has 40 eyes. Dont know how true it is.

For them we are very slow moving creatures..

Even if move our hand at 60mph, we are still slow for them ..!!
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Nov 10, 2009
40 eyes - hahahaha you got mutant flies of something? Flies only have 2 eyes but they are facet or compound eyes, meaning they have lots of lenses and have a sort of mosaic vision. Their eye-sight is super sharp and they have 360 degree vision, which is why they always see you coming.
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Nov 10, 2009
once i've seen with my own eyes when my friend caught a fly on the table with just 2 fingers easily. though it was not dark, apparently flies are "blind" at night time.
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Nov 11, 2009
xty wrote:once i've seen with my own eyes when my friend caught a fly on the table with just 2 fingers easily. though it was not dark, apparently flies are "blind" at night time.


Yeah some people are quiet fast .. you call it reflex.. (extra ordinary reflex perhaps)

@ choco

yeah something of that sort .. thanks for the clarification..

:!: i was just reading about why cats land on their feet now :roll:
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Nov 11, 2009
LOL - if buttered toast always land buttered side down, what would happen if you strapped it buttered side up to a cat, which always lands on its feet?

Now there's a mind bender!
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Nov 11, 2009
ahamed wrote:pretty fast? :D lol

I ve heard that a fly has 40 eyes. Dont know how true it is.

For them we are very slow moving creatures..

Even if move our hand at 60mph, we are still slow for them ..!!


trust me I am VERY fast. I can show you if you want, we can meet up at a maloo cafe or something and show you some bruce lee chops :D

mind you my strike rate is not good :( i have got to try atleast 10 times before I catch anything. On good days I can catch them on my first go and make sure that they keep alive.

Yes its got to do with some fast reflexes and you got to be patient and strike at the right time, I learnt it all from the lions on the animal planet :D
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Nov 13, 2009
@rudeboy

:shock:

would love to catch you in action on a tape!
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Nov 14, 2009
ahamed wrote:@rudeboy

:shock:

would love to catch you in action on a tape!


:D

i ll put some videos on youtube when i catch them and i ll send you the link.
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Nov 14, 2009
Yeah, what rudeboy says might be true. I had a friend in school who would just catch flies in his fists just like that... He would then wash them away in the basin. I tried a million times but could never catch one.
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Nov 14, 2009
ricky san I suggest you watch and learn from


;)
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Nov 14, 2009
Hang a plasitc bag filled with water outside your window..it help keeping flies away from your home :)
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Nov 15, 2009
@immortal ..we are talking about how to catch them :twisted:
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Nov 15, 2009
@rudeboy .. :P yay! karate kid !
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Nov 19, 2009
Lol yoh.. funny... i think it will be best to post the video in public
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