Flies are importunate creatures, hindering housewives in the kitchen, falling into jam and pretending to place under a lamp on a sandwich. Attempts to catch up and neutralize a slipper or a twisted newspaper are usually successful only if the sandwich owner has a reaction rate higher than the reaction rate of the fly.
To catch these creatures on an industrial scale, there are traps for flies and insects. What sophisticated methods of combating these importunate fugitives could not be invented by man. Flies are attracted by ultraviolet radiation and shocked, lure the same UV to the sticky liner. But such devices are more suitable for large rooms with an area of at least 100 square meters. What should the owners of ordinary apartments do?
How to make a trap for flies with your own hands?
To get rid of harmful insects in the apartment, you will have to wonder how to make a trap for flies with your own hands. So, any trap for flies must contain bait. As such, you can use a sweet jam or syrup. Sweetness is poured into a glass, so that it is filled no more than a third. Then take a regular sheet of paper and fold into a cone, which is then inserted into the glass. It is desirable that the cone does not touch the sweet content, otherwise the fly will be able to profit, eating a treat from the paper, and then the whole meaning of the trap will disappear.
Trap for Drosophila
With large single individuals, of course, you can cope with the usual method of chasing and using a sneaker for other purposes. But what to do with the small gnats, Drosophila?
Trap for fruit flies can be the same as for ordinary flies based on sweetness in a glass. That's just the sweetness to choose a very sticky. But usually there is so much winged detail in the apartment that the area of one glass may not be enough.
In a large jar put a piece of banana (preferably ripe) without skin. Instead of the lid of the bank is covered with polyethylene, in which small holes are made with a needle. The bank can be put at night on a table or a window sill, so that the smell of a banana attracts insects. Flies fly to this smell, find the "entrance" through small holes, and the way out can not be found. As a result, in the morning, most of the insects are trapped in a glass prison with a sweet one.
In order not to open a jar full of Drosophila, a slightly larger hole is made in the polyethylene through which the can is filled with water, and all malicious insects pour out.