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u/razordreamz 18h ago
Why do they approach it? What form of bait does it use?
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u/tinglep 18h ago
Most of those one way traps (where flys can enter but can’t leave) rely on the dead flies trapped inside giving off a smell (which smells fucking disgusting 🤢). The problem with those traps is I found it attracted more flies than I originally had so I stopped using them.
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u/314159265358979326 17h ago
Yep. Set up some baited wasp traps, and while I captured a lot of wasps, I attracted even more. The outdoor birthday was pretty much ruined and we had to go inside.
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u/ProfSpaceTime 14h ago
You’re supposed to set it up away from the party
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u/razordreamz 17h ago
But then how do you get the first ones so the other ones come to feed?
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u/dsmith422 17h ago
Put a small piece of fresh meat. As it rots, it attracts flies. Then the rotting flies attract more.
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u/manchesterthedog 16h ago
They really aren’t worth it. They are first of all, horrendously disgusting. The flies lay eggs in there, maggots hatch and eat the dead flies, they turn into flies themselves and lay more eggs. It turns into a rotting bag of wet flies. And second, like everybody else said, they attract more flies so you end up with the same amount or worse buzzing around your yard
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u/angry_queef_master 16h ago
yep my exact experience. You just end up creating a never ending fly orgy
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u/die_liebe 13h ago
I find it also morally problematic to attract flies and then to kill them, if this fly otherwise would not have been in your house.
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u/HeimrekHringariki 18h ago
Probably just attracted to the electricity buzzing?
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u/TheWolphman 18h ago
It's got electrolytes. It's what flies crave.
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u/HeimrekHringariki 18h ago
Thinking about that really made me thirsty. I guess I'll have to go grab me some Brawndo!
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u/bobdoleghostboy 17h ago
Because flies are fucking stupid. The same reason they think it's a good idea to fly in front of my face every 5 seconds while I'm swatting at them, until I finally crush them to death.
Wouldn't you think a fly would try to avoid something that was swatting at them? Why does the same fly keep coming back over and over again after you've made it abundantly clear you are trying to murder them?
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u/duckinasombrero 16h ago
Flies do not have memory the same way we do, it is incredibly short term. They actually perceive time much slower than we do and can dodge our swipes with ease, but won't remember why they did it. Their brains simply can't record that sort of data.
Flies are purely built for survival, but not on an individual scale. They play a numbers game, laying thousands of eggs in their short lifespans so the death of a few individuals is offset by the birth of thousands.
As nature's decomposers, all they need to be capable of is finding the smelly stuff and devouring it quickly. They even lay their eggs in the junk, because why the fuck not? We got eight weeks to do our jobs and crap out, let's have a family in this dead rat.
Such short-lived chunks of pure protein make up a huge portion of essential food stuffs for many of the planet's creatures. They are a vital component of our global ecosystem.
In short, a fly is like a tiny organic robot devoted purely to its 1-2 step survival protocols to eat literal caca and rotting carcasses and nothing more.
They're so gross and ugly and I love them so much.
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u/Sea_Statistician2818 15h ago
My burning hatred for flies became increasingly more validated with each subsequent word I read in this comment, and then you ended with "I love them so much"
You fuckin psycho
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u/ryebread91 15h ago
Do flys poop? If so, what ears fly poop? Is everything just poop all the way down?
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u/duckinasombrero 15h ago
Yes, constantly. Flies can't chew, so they need to liquefy their food. Because it's liquid, it gets absorbed quickly and waste is left behind every single time and place they land as little specks. Bacteria and microorganisms eat it.
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u/BroetchenTeig 14h ago
Have a look on your windows or the top of your lamps. These little dots are mostly fly poop
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u/mwoody450 18h ago
Been a long time since physics and EE 101, so forgive my ignorance, but question: what mechanism stops the coil from firing once the fly is dead?
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u/AwareCandle369 18h ago
The zap boils off the liquid in the fly's body. What's left is basically charcoal and is not conductive enough to draw another bolt
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u/Turramurra 17h ago
oh charming
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u/Checksoutipromise 17h ago
but it arcs to the dead flies also when a new one comes along?
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u/One_dank_orange 18h ago
The soul of the fly leaving its body breaks the connection
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u/aenemacanal 17h ago
I saw the scientific comment but I choose to believe this one.
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u/MeanCryptographer585 18h ago
I never understood why the force electricity gave palpatine a butt head and turned into a creepy goblin.
I always thought the emperor was just old as fuck in the original trilogy. Like used to force to live past a normal human lifetime. But somehow palpatine returned
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u/Ranulf13 17h ago
He always looked like that, but used his powers to create a glamour to look normal and hide his evil and age.
At the point when he faces Mace Windu, he gets his powers deflected back against him and that dispels the glamour from his body. After that I dont remember if he just gives up on using it again or if he simply cant use it anymore.
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u/oninokamin 17h ago
>After that I dont remember if he just gives up on using it again or if he simply cant use it anymore.
The point he threw Mace out the window, no more fucks were given. No need to waste energy on it anyway, when you can blame your dark-side goblin face on the eeevil jedi.
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u/ThirtyThree111 16h ago
he now has an excuse - the attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed
so he doesn't need to keep it up anymore
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u/pichael289 16h ago
Is that cannon? And is it still cannon? I always just assumed he got fucked up from the lighting, he did just get blasted in the face with it and was struggling untill Anakin came along and saved him. Always thought it was funny boba fett can cross out of the sarlac but the most powerful out of the 3 black people in the galaxy gets just throw and that's it, it's just accepted he's dead despite many other jedis not being killed by just being thrown
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u/Individual_Respect90 18h ago
Did they spray something on it to attract so many flies? I got an indoor bug zapper and it hasn’t done shit over a week.
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u/muffinscrub 18h ago
I wonder if after the first fly is dead every subsequent fly is like oh shit, I smell food. And as more die the temptation to come check it out increases.
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys 17h ago
I think thats exactly how this works. Flys are attracted to rotten smells.
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u/BRAX7ON 17h ago
Maybe you can’t tell but this video is in reverse. That is the same kind of set up that brought Frankenstein back to life.
They’re experimenting on flies!
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u/LloydG7 19h ago
might not be a fun sight at the end of the day lol
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u/AnonnonA710 19h ago
Unless you’re a frog
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u/BullshitBlazing420 18h ago
do NOT let a frog near this machine
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u/lmflex 18h ago edited 18h ago
I like the part where a new fly electrocutes all of them again.
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u/Excellent_Condition 17h ago
Fun fact: bug zappers like this are not allowed in commercial kitchens under FDA food code because when they zap bugs, they aerosolize all the fly shit and bacteria in the fly and it settles on all the surrounding surfaces.
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u/_f_yura 18h ago
Why does it stop zapping when they are dead?
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u/Ultra-Metal 18h ago
All the moisture fried out of them, there for no arc circuit completion? From what I remember it's been awhile.
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u/bickandalls 17h ago
There's periods of flies walking in the circle without zaps, then all of a sudden it starts again. I suspect someone is turning it on and off.
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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 18h ago
Ok, who do I send the money to?
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u/kstar79 17h ago
One of my favorite purchases is a battery-powered tennis racket version of this. So satisfying to hear that pop of the fly annoying me or the mosquito circling around my head.
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u/orshabaaal 18h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Gbdn2HKuamxYr8SsOB
Tesla tower proving itself against bugs again
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u/BenMagnusGrimm 18h ago
It doesn’t seem strong enough. It took way too many attempts to kill those flies.
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u/SadKat002 18h ago
Not necessarily, remember that the brain runs on electricity, and by stimulating certain parts of the brain you can still get movement out of a corpse
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u/Salt_Law_251 19h ago
Say hello to DEMOCRACY!
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 18h ago edited 18h ago
The Blessed Motive Force used to slay a horde of invading Tyranids. Praise the Machine God! Hail the Omnissiah!
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u/Affectionate_Bet_498 18h ago edited 18h ago
A Bug-A-salt is much more efficient. No electricity needed.
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u/S0UL_EAT3R 18h ago
My family had a few of these. Felt like they eventually just stop shooting as hard so wouldn’t always get the job done quickly
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u/HoOkAySo 14h ago
This is not a “Japanese bug zapper”. It’s just a small Tesla Coil that someone put a small platform around.
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u/r4d1ant 17h ago
The problem is that there is no caution high voltage sign, if a sign was there then you would catch less flies
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u/Professional-Comb-90 16h ago
Not sure what this fly was doing but it looks like it got smited for attempting necrophilia.
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u/CzarDale04 13h ago
Shows you how smart a fly is. Look, a lot of dead fly bodies over there, let's go check it out.
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u/Redditing-Dutchman 19h ago