Just wondering if anyone has heard or tried this for problems with flies?
Many people swear that a zip-lock bag filled half-way with water and attached over entry-ways will repel flies.
Question:
How would a zip lock bag filled with water and pennies in it prevent flies?

We have them around here at outdoor places to repel mosquitoes.

I have no idea whether they work or not.

Interesting! If it works,that would be cool and cheap!

So it actually works?

Ewww

if there's one thing I hate are flies

ESP in my house. You don't know!!!

I walk around with a can of RAID for flying insects 24/7 in the summer

the only reason I wouldn't do the zip-loc thing is it would look tacky in the house

one time I bought those yellow sticky hanging long things

I thought they repelled the flies- had no idea they stuck to them

hung one in the kitchen one night

woke up. Nice and hungry. Gonna make breakfast...

To see that thing hanging with dead flies in my kitchen....

I couldn't eat all day!!

Won't a bug-zapper (like the ones y' put in the backyard for mosquitos when y' cook outside) work just as well or better ... ? I dunno what a bag of water with loose change in it is gonna do ... besides, the flies can't even buy penny candy anymore with just one penny ...

One theory is that sunlight (which is why they are used outdoors) is refracted and confuses insects with compound eyes, so they fly away.

Another theory is that they don't work.

I suggest getting a BB gun.... sit on a chair and practice shooting flies out of the air... Once you get really good, get a Pellet gun, then move on to a 22 by the time you run out of flies, you'll be up to a 50 cal and on some tv show somewhere.

Naw...I prefer catching them with a pair of chop sticks....much more of a challenge.....

oooh...this thread is about THOSE kinds of fly's...

LOL thats funny.....

no problem there i see

I saw these hanging on a patio/deck yesterday and had to ask why they were there because I'd never seen them before! Wish I'd have known to try this out years ago.

Hmmmmmmmm. Perhaps a water bag hat would keep the bugs away?

<- With THESE fabulous glasses???

I'd just do a good cleaning as flies are attracted to ____

I was hoping he didn't mean THAT but the thought did cross my mind regarding a shower!

Yeah, something about the fly seeing its distorted reflection in the waterbag, it gets scaired and flies away...thinkin it's a predator or something like that.

Or the fly is just thinkin........ Damn! I'm ugly!