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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 3, 2019 14:20:15 GMT
Another nuisance is those house flies that appear in the boat from time to time, around this time of the year. Nimble things they are, almost impossible to swat. My solution is to hold a can of easy start around 2 feet from the thing, quick blast to stun the fly then stamp on it. Furniture polish etc. doesn't work as well, doesn't have the powerful jet of vapour that easy start does. Success rate is around 50%.
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Post by bodger on Aug 3, 2019 15:07:59 GMT
......... or even a dry powder extinguisher.
seriously, Ricco, for a well-travelled man I am surprised to see you moaning about a few wasps and flies.
I recall a BBQ held in the Burmese jungle when we had flying beetles the size of ping pong balls dive bombing the table. Other niceties were flesh-eating camel spiders trying to take over our house in Muscat, giant centipedes as long as your forearm in Burma and some nasty snakes living under the paving surrounding our swimming pool in Nigeria.
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Post by Jim on Aug 3, 2019 20:15:16 GMT
there are wasps about. I don't really mind them as such but its a nuisance. Two techniques I found useful recently. Empty cider cans as traps and if a wasp comes into the cabin I have been experimenting with some expressions such as "WASP [WORD REMOVED] OFF!" In an elevated tone with vocal force. This seems quite effecfive as they do actually go away. Anyone have any other non electrocution type solutions ? Burning coffee is quite effective but as I never drink coffee this is not an option. I use a pleasant tone, as does Noreen, talk to them nicely, if they don't go, remind them of death by trained swat team. They usually go. Doesn't work with flies, they are stupid.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 4, 2019 7:34:17 GMT
......... or even a dry powder extinguisher. seriously, Ricco, for a well-travelled man I am surprised to see you moaning about a few wasps and flies. I recall a BBQ held in the Burmese jungle when we had flying beetles the size of ping pong balls dive bombing the table. Other niceties were flesh-eating camel spiders trying to take over our house in Muscat, giant centipedes as long as your forearm in Burma and some nasty snakes living under the paving surrounding our swimming pool in Nigeria. I've been fortunate enough to avoid too many nasties on my travels. Plenty of mosquitos but an evening with midges on the west coat of Scotland trumps that. Poisonous centipedes in Bali can be a hazard but they tend to stay out of your way. I was bitten by a spider in Jakarta that made my ankle balloon to twice its size overnight but suspect that might have been an allergic reaction rather than any poison. I saw a king cobra in Malaysia. Common cobras were everywhere but you never see them. The trick is to swish the undergrowth in front of you to disperse them and wear boots to prevent the baby ones, who can't be scared off, from biting you. Their mouths are so small they can only bite you on the tips of your toes. Big black flies on Lombok behave just like horseflies, chasing and attacking then giving you bites that draw blood while waiting for a wave on the ocean. Still on Lombok some rooms get the odd scorpion, one of two get stung, but it's not fatal. I slept one night in India last year with both doors open, no electricity, too hot to sleep. When I woke up my room resembled a zoo. Despite all this those little house flies bother me, they are a nuisance.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 7:45:57 GMT
Best way to get flies is to slowly bring your hands in from each side then clap really fast while lifting hands up a bit.
A fly will usually try to escape sideways when swatted as it is generally a downwards motion. This downwards motion also sets up air currents which help the fly to get away.
so if you block off the sides with your hands then it sees that and goes upwards and by sweeping your hands up slightly before clapping you can often match its escape trajectory and disable or kill it. Obviously two hands moving is twice the collision speed as well. They will escape if hands are not raised because you create an air current which pushes them up.
You have to move really slowly to get in position then Bang.
I have about 50% kill rate using this technique I thought up.
Another one is to flick them hard to knock them out but they need to be relatively dozy for that.
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Post by lollygagger on Aug 4, 2019 8:39:07 GMT
We don't have these problems at all - Leave your spiders. Job done.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 8:46:09 GMT
I don't get them on my boat as it is full of spiders but sometimes have to use my fly catching when visiting other people.
Spiders are great.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 8:57:09 GMT
I don't get them on my boat as it is full of spiders but sometimes have to use my fly catching when visiting other people. Spiders are great. We give them names...
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Post by thebfg on Aug 4, 2019 15:40:17 GMT
I don't get them on my boat as it is full of spiders but sometimes have to use my fly catching when visiting other people. Spiders are great. We give them names... So do we. We had george, a large spider in the bathroom. At home the cat eventually gets the flys
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