electric fly zapper

ferdi

probably not a AH matter but i'm at my wits-end and need help sooner than later.

where in dublin can one buy one of those electric fly zapper things you see in butcher shops and the like? one for domestic use obviously.
my house has been invadeded by fruit flies and everthing containing fuit attracts them. I just had to throw out 3/4 of a lovely gooseberry tart because when i removed the tin foil covering it, about 10 of these little buggers flew out, disgusting!:mad:

a little help?

Pocari Sweat

You can buy hand held ones now, in the shape of a tennis raquet, but with a steel mesh with a 1000 volt zap in it.

whiskeyman

Never seen one for the home use.
You tried those sticky roll things that hang from the ceiling?
Not attractive to look at though when they get a few on them.

Failing that, you could have fun while killing the little bastids

ferdi

ok but i'm kinda looking for a stand alone one, i dont have the time to chase these flies around with a tennis raquet. i went on a rampage with a rolled up newspaper and massacred a load of them but it made no difference, i need a the butcher shop style zapper to work on them constantly

L31mr0d

we have the same problem with flies here. You open the window in the evening to cool down the place and a myriad of flies come in and head for the lights. Can you get those hand held electric fli zappers in ireland? where?

Ruu_Old

whiskeyman wrote:

Never seen one for the home use.
You tried those sticky roll things that hang from the ceiling?
Not attractive to look at though when they get a few on them.

Failing that, you could have fun while killing the little bastids

Brilliant. We have a heap of those roll things, seem to do the trick.

Pocari Sweat

Gets to the roots. Get some window fly screens for the summer.

Dave

Leave a bit of honey in a glass, the fruit flies love the stuff and then get stuck and die.

Black Swan

What a conversation piece! If you get bored with Big Brother or talking to one another, you can watch the flies get zapped. Buzzz..buzzzz. Blue Lagoon looks up from her novel and cuts eyes to zapper. "Incoming!" yells to others in her flat. Everyone drops what they are doing in the flat and rush over to see one get zapped.:D

Hobbes

whiskeyman wrote:

Never seen one for the home use.
You tried those sticky roll things that hang from the ceiling?
Not attractive to look at though when they get a few on them.

Failing that, you could have fun while killing the little bastids

You can get that from Argos as well. Actually its supposed to be easier to kill flies with a tennis racket then a rolled up paper.

Esel

Aldi have one at the moment. (If not Aldi, Lidl - They're both beside each other in Finglas!)

Bogus

Seen the UV ones in B&Q, Maplins and Atlantic

Caco

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

If you get bored with Big Brother or talking to one another, you can watch the flies get zapped.

I would much rather watch flies flying into a zapper than have mine eyes tortured by the chavs of BB!

Terry

try a garden centre. i saw one once in a garden centre.

tk123

They have them on offer in Maplins - €30 and €35 for a bigger one..

nando

There's an advert for a stand alone fly zapper for order in the middle of this weeks RTE guide i think.

abetarrush

There were these things out that send out a really high-pitched signal that you can't hear, but insects can,a nd it drives them crazy, so they dont come into your house

but cant find one anywhere

EDIT: Found them! They're called Ultrasonic insect repellers, and heres one:

http://store.diyhut.com/ulpesrep.html

well gettin one

Gandhi

For a fruit fly trap mix up:

Glass of water
1 spoon sugar
1 spoon vinegar

Squirt in a small dash of washing up liquid to break the surface tension of the water - otherwise the little hoors will just land on the surface of the water, and fly off again.

Leave it for a few days and gasp in amazement at how many of them you catch. Use a plastic glass (oxymoron?) or at least a glass you were about to throw out, as you will never want to drink out of it again after seeing the pile of dead flies in there.

Also, scrub the kitchen well to eliminate wherever they are breeding. Often a piece of potato skin or an apple core that fell behind the fridge or somewhere can be the cause of the invasion. Pour boiling water and vinegar down the sink, as a tiny rotting piece of fruit or veg down there could also be the cause. Scrub the rubbish bin, as just a small bit of organic waste can be enough.

I don't know if an electric zapper would do much for fruit flies. I've had one or two invasions, and I don't remember ever seeing them buzzing around a lightbulb the way you'd see other insects doing.

My wife's cousin had an electric zapper on the porch of his cabin in the woods (in the States), and they'd get these massive moths and beetles flying around in the evening. You'd hear them crackling and being fried for about 10 seconds, and get this smell like meat cooking. They had to get rid of the zapper, as it was too off-putting when they were barbequeing steaks and burgers, and you couldn't tell if you were smelling food being cooked, or some big hairy moth being cooked.