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What do you do about flies ?

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  • L Lost User

    wudnt it be better to attach these to the cattles?

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    El Corazon
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    Anup Shinde wrote:

    wudnt it be better to attach these to the cattles?

    Nope, outside just use the electric ones. Flies breed more flies, its an endless cycle. To stop the flies you have to kill all the flies in one fell swoop along with all the maggots before they turn into flies.... but even if you did, they fly in from your neighbors farm. And so, outside the electric one works best, you just leave it and get as many as you can, that is all you can do. Inside, for humans use the tape.

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    • R Ray Kinsella

      I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

      Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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      Christian Graus
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      I encourage spiders, and never let anyone kill them. We have spiders that live in specific rooms of the house, a spider or two live in my ute, they are everywhere.

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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        wudnt it be better to attach these to the cattles?

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        Marc Clifton
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        Anup Shinde wrote:

        wudnt it be better to attach these to the cattles?

        Hang the fly tape from the horns. :) Marc

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        • C Christian Graus

          I encourage spiders, and never let anyone kill them. We have spiders that live in specific rooms of the house, a spider or two live in my ute, they are everywhere.

          Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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          Dario Solera
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          Christian Graus wrote:

          they are everywhere

          :~ :-D

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          • R Ray Kinsella

            I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

            Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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            Mike Hankey
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            I used to work on a Hog farm in Ky. while I was attending College and we used to use a product that looked like Corn Meal. We would scatter it in the morning and sweep up the stuff and the dead flies later in the day. I can't remember what we called it but it really worked. Mike

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            • R Ray Kinsella

              I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

              Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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              Brady Kelly
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              My parents use citronella candles, and they seem to work pretty well as a repellent.

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              • C Christian Graus

                I encourage spiders, and never let anyone kill them. We have spiders that live in specific rooms of the house, a spider or two live in my ute, they are everywhere.

                Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                Sebastian Schneider
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                Aye. I never kill spiders, either. I think it is bad luck to kill a useful animal. Other than that, they are fascinating creatures. And if they had our dimensions, they would rule the world. And there would be no male dominace, trust me on that....

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                • R Ray Kinsella

                  I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                  Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                  Bassam Abdul Baki
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                  The Simpson's solution would be to get yourself a flea collar, as long as they don't know what that is or they don't think you're into S&M, you'll be okay. Just tell them it's for your neck problem. :-D


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                  • D Dario Solera

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    they are everywhere

                    :~ :-D

                    If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki

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                    Eurosid
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                    Damn right they are everywhere. CNN's SpiderBoy[^]

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                    • R Ray Kinsella

                      I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                      Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                      Back in the early 80's I had a girlfriend who lived on a farm near Rome, NY. She noticed that the year after the nuclear anomaly at Three Mile Island, that the number of flies on the farm was down tremendously. Do you have any nuclear power plants near by? Is the farm located down wind? If so, ...

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                      • R Ray Kinsella

                        I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                        Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                        Shog9 0
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                        Screens and fly tape. Also, at night, they tend to settle down and land on the ceilings - walk around with a fly swatter and you can kill a lot of them quickly. Mostly, don't freak out about them - it's just something you get used to.

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                        • R Ray Kinsella

                          I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                          Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                          Tarakeshwar Reddy
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                          I read the subject as "What do you do about files" :sigh:

                          Ray Kinsella wrote:

                          e have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                          My Grandfather's house had a lot of these flies and they use to clean up the place 2 times a day, used screens and meshes facing the cattle shed.

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                          • C Christian Graus

                            I encourage spiders, and never let anyone kill them. We have spiders that live in specific rooms of the house, a spider or two live in my ute, they are everywhere.

                            Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                            Graham Shanks
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                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            a spider or two live in my ute

                            What's a ute? After ruling out the My Cousin Vinny's "two utes" I looked it up Wikipedia. Much as I would like it to be "C-6 Ute and U-21 Ute, military variants of the Beechcraft King Air Model 90" I suspect that what you actually own is the much more mundain "colloquial term used in Australia and New Zealand to refer to a pickup truck"

                            Graham Dear God. I would like to file a bug report[^]

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                              Back in the early 80's I had a girlfriend who lived on a farm near Rome, NY. She noticed that the year after the nuclear anomaly at Three Mile Island, that the number of flies on the farm was down tremendously. Do you have any nuclear power plants near by? Is the farm located down wind? If so, ...

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                              Ray Kinsella
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                              :laugh: ....

                              Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                              • C Christian Graus

                                I encourage spiders, and never let anyone kill them. We have spiders that live in specific rooms of the house, a spider or two live in my ute, they are everywhere.

                                Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

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                                ushering
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                                My little sister went to India with family friends who immigrated to America from a rural area in India. You are not allowed to kill spiders in their village or household for just this reason. I don't know how common this practice is, but after a few weeks my sister got used to the spiders (they were everywhere!) and gained a new respect for ecological solutions to pest problems. I do imagine, however, that widespread adoption of the spider tolerance stance is necessary to make this work. Regards.

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                                • R Ray Kinsella

                                  I visit my fiancée's family once a week more or less, they live on a dairy and chicken farm in West Limerick. They are nice, simple people and are tolerant of me and my "city" ways. With so many cattle around there are alot of flies, particularly now with the warm weather and the mother of the family with each passing year is getting more and more aggravated by the problem. I said there has to be a solution to this problem in the world. So I was wondering what other CPians did about flies ? We have CPians from all over the world here, and large proportion from countries that are far hotter than Ireland. I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                                  Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

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                                  Ray Kinsella wrote:

                                  I can only presume you guys have a fly problem as well, if so what do you do about it?

                                  Never throw away the bottle top for your beer. After drinking some put the top back on so the flies can't get in. :-D I learned that trick at the "Fly Bar" in the village.

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                                  • G Graham Shanks

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    a spider or two live in my ute

                                    What's a ute? After ruling out the My Cousin Vinny's "two utes" I looked it up Wikipedia. Much as I would like it to be "C-6 Ute and U-21 Ute, military variants of the Beechcraft King Air Model 90" I suspect that what you actually own is the much more mundain "colloquial term used in Australia and New Zealand to refer to a pickup truck"

                                    Graham Dear God. I would like to file a bug report[^]

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                                    LabVIEWstuff
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                                    "After ruling out the My Cousin Vinny's "two utes" " Quality!! You got my 5 - one of my favourite (and very underrated) films.

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