Homemade Fly Trap
December 23rd, 2006 . by James
I’ve spoken to many people who’ve wanted to know how to make a homemade fly trap.
Some of them didn’t even realise how easy it was. And, because most people tend to have the ingredients already, it can be cheaper than the cheap fly traps from Builder’s Warehouse.
So, are you curious as to how to make one?
What you need:
Empty 2 litre plastic coke bottle
1.5 cups of water
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of vinegar
+/- 1m of string
Small piece of meat (OPTIONAL)
Serving spoon of Syrup (OPTIONAL)
Are you keen?
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And then you can send me photos of your fly traps so that we can create a gallery of success stories… 
fly trap idea is great!
HI Shelley. Thanks for the compliment. I hope it works out for you. Let me know how it goes…
The fly trap works as is but I noticed that when I added 3 drops of red food coloring to make it bright red, it caught twice as many flies. I even did a side by side test using half of the original mixture in one container and the other half in another with added food coloring. And as mentioned the red one caught twice as many!
Thanks for the info… I’ll be sure to let everyone know.
I am an embalmer and have occasion to deal with maggot infestations from time to time. We have been taught in Mortuary science class to use Kerosene, next gasoline, either of these petroleum products do the job 100%.
re mr butlers comment. same here, something about it melts the coating off of the maggots. if you have an apprentice and show him this make sure you tell them why and how or youll end up with a cremation instead like we did. he thought that your supposed to inject the kerosene then light it to get rid of them (the maggots).
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