Hanging Plastic Bags Filled With Water

Hanging plastic bags filled with water will repel flies.

Hanging plastic bags filled with water.

Diy fly fighting tips shared online involves the following. Instead letting it fall into their weasely undetermined category. Hanging a plastic bag filled with water can effectively repel flies. This rumor has been circling the web for years and people have been using it to scare away flies for even longer.

Plastic sandwich bags or ziploc bags water lime juice around five pennies and salt. The idea is that flies have poor eyesight and water filled bags create some type of optical illusion that scares them away. Interested parties have suggested placing venus fly traps around the home for instance. See example s we went with some out of town friends to sweety pies on sunday for breakfast and we sat in the enclosed patio section.

They note that the rumor to which skip refers about using some type of hanging plastic bag containing water to repel flies is very prevalent down south but in most variations the bags contain only water. Clear plastic bags filled with water dangling in doorways or on porches or patios may seem like strange decorations but people actually hang these bags for a reason. Ziploc bags full of water and pennies don t act as a homemade fly repellent. Snopes ruled it neither true nor false.

The owner told us that these baggies kept the flies away naturally. The main problem people encounter is that the plastic bags filled with water and coins aren t especially attractive. The water filled bags. The bags were half filled with water each contained four coins and they were zipped shut.

Plastic bags half filled with water and containing a few pennies might seem like odd outdoor decor if you ve never encountered them before. Naturally we were curious. Stringham conducted a 13 week field trial by installing commercial water based optical fly repellents on two egg farms. Yet you can see these contraptions all over the american.