You likely have all the ingredientssugar, honey, and a paper bag.
It’s so sticky you must keep it away from other people or pets (hair and fur).
This method is one of the most inexpensive and effective fly traps foreliminating flying insect woes.
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Use other methods for small flies, likefruit flies,drain flies, orfungus gnats.
The best bait for flies depends on the key in of fly in your house.
Fruit flies are best attracted with an apple cider vinegar watery solution.
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Houseflies prefer sweet, sugar, honey, or molasses bait.
Blow flies,phorid flies, and filth flies are lured by the smell of decomposition and rot.
Make ahomemade bottle fly trapusing a plastic bottle and sugary or fermented water as a lure.
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Take a plastic drinking bottle and cut off the top 1/3 with the spout intact.
Tape it in place.
How to Practice Safe Sugar,Cakeplay
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The Spruce / Jorge Gamboa
The Spruce / Jorge Gamboa
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