Do electric flykillers really work?

is it right?

where can i get one from?

How Much?

Whatever happened to flykiller things like air fresheners that you could stand on top of cupboard or whatever and insects would plummet lifeless from the air? No shop now seems to stock them. Is this down to some obscure Brussels regulation to protect us from breathing in noxious chemicals? You can still get cans of fly spray but not the stand-and-deliver-death kind. Anyone know why?

Originally posted by trevor
Do electric flykillers really work?

is it right?

where can i get one from?

How Much?

No good in most homes, unless of course you've got electric flies!:)

A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.

Wonderful entertainment.

Trevor they do work and are good ..why else do you think food premises have them, you can buy small ones that are good enough for the home (sorry I don't know where you can buy them) you can still but the old fly papers too but again you will have to shop around for them, and they lok B awful with all the dead ones stuck to it, but better on there than flying around in the house.

owdlad.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.

Wonderful entertainment.

Yuk, thats as bad as salting slugs.;)

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.

Wonderful entertainment.

Ignite it and torch em :D

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.

Wonderful entertainment.

Thus transforming them from powered fliers, to gliders.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.

Wonderful entertainment.

Its one thing killing them out of necesity, but doing it as "wonderful entertainment" seems a bit sadistic! I suppose it could become the poor-man's bloodsport! (Oooops I forgot.... that's angling!)

Maplins Sell them, battery or mains operated

Look at www.maplin.co.uk and type "insect killers" into the product search box

This is an interesting one for sale at Maplins.....
looks like a small tenis raquet, never seen one before :D

Electronic Fly Swatter
• Electronically charged grid to zap those flies!
• Play fly-tennis with your friends!
• Protective grilles to prevent shocks to fingers
• Simple push-button operation
• No sticky mess to clear up!
• Requires 2 x AA batteries (not supplied)

Fly-swatting has never been so much fun! This great gadget has an electronic grid in the centre section, which is charged by simply pushing and holding the button on the handle. Once those pesky insects come in to contact with the grid, they simply stand no chance, being electrocuted on impact! Length approximately 455mm, width approximately 160mm. Requires 2 x AA batteries (not supplied - Maplin Order Code YA09K). Please note: This item is not a toy. Keep out of the reach of children. Due care and attention should be exercised if using this item in the presence of the pets, the elderly, or those fitted with a pacemaker device.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
A most entertaining form of fly killer is hair spray. Watch them freeze instantly and plummet to the ground the second you press the button.
Wonderful entertainment.

Another entertaing method to get rid of a pesky fly is to use, freezer spray, the stuff used to cool down overheating electronic circuits. It cools down to -56 deg C, thus freezing the fly instantly and plops to the floor.

Originally posted by trevor
is it right?
Its bad karma.

Chris.

well if you own a dog you could collect its crap instead of leaving it in the park for everyone else to stand on, put it in the room with the fly making the fly attracted to it the carry it and the fly outside

Ok, so my fly-killing method may be a trifle sadistic, I admit it.

But surely it's not as bad as putting mouse traps loaded with bread onto freshly-sown lawn-seed areas to get ones own back on the sparrows and tits.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
Ok, so my fly-killing method may be a trifle sadistic, I admit it.

But surely it's not as bad as putting mouse traps loaded with bread onto freshly-sown lawn-seed areas to get ones own back on the sparrows and tits.

I worry for the wellbeing of your hamster colony...

No, not me, silly! I worked with someone once who did this. Awful bugger he was.

You can still get the stand up fly killers that last a couple of months from Morrisons. I think they are Rentokil. I used to buy Vapona but cant get them now. These new ones smell lemony.

Originally posted by eviljock
Whatever happened to flykiller things like air fresheners that you could stand on top of cupboard or whatever and insects would plummet lifeless from the air? No shop now seems to stock them. Is this down to some obscure Brussels regulation to protect us from breathing in noxious chemicals? You can still get cans of fly spray but not the stand-and-deliver-death kind. Anyone know why?

If you're talking about the ones that disappeared a few years ago it was probably because they contained a chemical called Dichlorvos (sp??) which was a suspected mutagenic / carcinogenic chemical.

Many years ago you could get a 'stick up' bug killing block that contained organophosphorous compounds similar to those that farmers used on sheep ticks and such. Given the fact that the chemical make up of these older chemicals was very similar to some of the more primitive nerve gasses, these were phased out for domestic use and I think eventually were banned for farming use as well.

I encourage spiders, open doors and windows and let the cats deal with the particularly dim flies that won't take the hint.

Joe

A rolled up newspaper does the trick, and the bonus is that it keeps you fit all that waving about to catch the little BUGgas,

Originally posted by markham
Thus transforming them from powered fliers, to gliders.

Don't kill flies, harness their Fly Power! (more info (http://www.flypower.com/index.html))