[PBARC] OT: Zip Lock Bag

[E Glenn Wolf Jr]

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_ZIP
LOCK BAG -

Good tip!

_We went with friends to Sweetie Pies on Sunday for breakfast and sat in the patio section.

We happened to notice zip lock bags pinned to a post and to a wall. The bags were half filled with water, each contained 4 pennies, and they were zipped shut.  Naturally we were curious!

Ms. Sweetie told us that these baggies kept the flies away!

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.  I'm now a believer!

  Ann 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 baggie 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!

Danielle
Martin 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.

Maggie says:  

I swear by the plastic bag of water trick. I have them on the 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.

  DJ 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 to a fly 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 the locals were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it and it worked immediately! We went from dozens of flies to seeing the occasional
one.



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