How to keep flies and other insects away from your location?.

[BlueBalls]

Friend of mine sent me this.


We went with friends to a restaurant on Sunday for lunch and sat in the patio section beside the store. We happened to notice zip lock baggies pinned to a post and a wall. The bags were half filled with ...water, each contained 4 pennies, and they were zipped shut. Naturally we were curious!

The owner told us that these baggies kept the flies away! So naturally we were even more curious! We actually watched some flies come in the open window, stand around on the window sill, and then fly out again. And there were no flies in the eating area! This morning I checked this out on Google. Below are comments on this fly control idea.


Zip-lock water bags: #1 Says: I tried the zip lock bag and pennies this weekend. I have a horse trailer. The flies were bad while I was camping. I put the baggies with pennies above the door of the LQ. NOT ONE FLY came in the trailer.The horse trailer part had many. Not sure why it works but it does!


#2 Says:Fill a zip lock bag with water and 5 or 6 pennies and hang it in the problem area. In my case it was a particular window in my home. It had a slight passage way for insects. Every since I have done that, it has kept flies and wasps away. Some say that wasps and flies mistake the bag for some other insect nest and are threatened.


#3 Says:I swear by the plastic bag of water trick. I have them on porch and basement. We saw these in Northeast Mo. at an Amish grocery store& have used them since. They say it works because a fly sees a reflection& won't come around.


#4 Says:Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found that the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it's like a zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner.

When you figure that flies are prey for many other bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won't take the risk of being around that much perceived action. I moved to a rural area and thought these "hillbillies" were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it and it worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but he didn't hang around long.

 

[User-E]

There are no more pennies. Will other coins work?

I have a lot of flies and wasps flying in my balcony door.

I tried the old home remedy of hanging an inflated paper pag above the door to fool the wasps into thinking there's already a nest, but they don't seem to care.

:sad:

 

[Lorenzo]

There is currently not enough evidence to conclusively dismiss the technique as ineffective. Nor is there any scientific evidence to confirm that it works, or, if so, WHY it works.

In fact, two scientific studies found that the technique did NOT repel flies and may have actually attracted more of the pesky critters. However, the studies have been criticized because they conducted the tests indoors under artificial light rather than in sunlight.

Many commentators swear that the tip works. Just as many others dismiss it as ineffective.

 

[Transient]

There are no more pennies. Will other coins work?

I have a lot of flies and wasps flying in my balcony door.

I tried the old home remedy of hanging an inflated paper pag above the door to fool the wasps into thinking there's already a nest, but they don't seem to care.

:sad:

 

[Transient]

Hey, I'll try it. Even if it only makes me think it's working, it works.

 

[Lorenzo]

There are no more pennies. Will other coins work?

I have a lot of flies and wasps flying in my balcony door.

I tried the old home remedy of hanging an inflated paper pag above the door to fool the wasps into thinking there's already a nest, but they don't seem to care.

:sad:

Something else I found Ms. Sarah.

I was in Honduras for a few months, and most restaurants had outdoor seating, on the roof above the tables there were many clear plastics bags filled with water, sorry no penny, or coin inside. I asked why, and the locals said because when flies near the bag they see a fly ten times bigger than they are and will not come near. At home in the states it is a lot more quieter than a fly zapper.

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While the Internet-circulated how-to on repelling flies mandates the inclusion of four pennies in the bag, others who endorse the practice advocate placing only a single penny in each water-filled pouch, and others recommend using instead flakes of tin foil. However, the most common array of this sort is the unadorned bag of water, with such filled pouches to be either taped to one's doors or suspended in areas where flies are a particular problem

 

[DannyDeVito]

 

[Wanker]

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[MSN]

My Wasaga buddies will get a kick out of this one.

 

[Transient]

:biggrin2:

Yeah, no, I think the fly swatted is a safer option.

 

[oldguyzer]

I prefer a shotgun. There's enough spread in the pellets to get more than one when they swarm! :-Cool/"

 

[Transient]

They tested the bag of water as a fly repellent back in. 2010.
Sorry guys, they found it does not work.