Having grown up around kitten it’s kind of cool how they have so much fun as Little uns playing games.
I am also reminded about certain people (mostly women types) usually not understanding the locker room game of trying to leave welts on your friends asses from around the corner with a twisted towel.
Well I am happy to report that those games are not wasted as my dormant skills of towel snap mastery have proven to be well spent time mastering martial skills for later survival.
Having been a dumbass and left my screen door open while I went to the store I came back to a party of nasty flys in my living room. house flys, horse flys, deer flys, and a couple other random iridescent ones. Not currently possessing a swatter I surveyed my options. My hand? no thanks. Newspaper? a random and crude weapon from a more primitive age. Shoe? Hell no.
But then my eyes lit upon the perfect laser accurate fly killing device ever created. A thin, worn old terry cloth hand towel. A quick dampening, a deft twist and flys were snapping into walls and falling to the carpet with every strike.
I hate flying bugs. :mad:
Ha, that reminds me of an incident from my teens. A bee or yellowjacket landed on my arm and I was standing still hoping it would fly off without stinging. Some other kid noticed, said “hold still”, then whipped off the bandanna he was wearing and snapped the bug away. It left a welt but that’s better than a sting.
If you have a cat, you can combine the cat and the hunting skills and the fly killing.
When I was a teenager, I’d occasionally get flies in my bedroom. They liked to congregate around the ceiling lamp, which happened to be directly above my bed.
I also had a young cat, who loooooved to watch and try to catch those flies.
Of course, being near the ceiling, they were way too high for the cat. But they weren’t too high if I stood on the bed and held the cat up near the ceiling.
Wait, what…you’re a man-type and you didn’t think to use a power tool to remove the flies?
Couple of weeks ago I inadvertently left the back door open all night and the lights on in both the kitchen and the mudroom. Late summer in the upper midwest in a semi-rural property with woods to the west means…bugs. And mosquitoes. Lots and lots of bugs and mosquitoes.
I have a 3.5 horsepower, 10-gallon Shop-Vac with a 3" diameter hose. When I woke up in the morning to discover an absolutely horrifying number of bugs and skeeters in the house, my first thought was Big Bertha. I went through the back part of the house like a maelstrom sucking flying insects out of the air, off the ceiling and from wherever they’d clustered around light fixtures.
It was really fun, efficient, and bonus: didn’t have to vacuum up icky dead bugs from the floor and various surfaces afterwards. (I’m a woman-type and get squicked out by dead bugs.)
I have a terrier mix who is hell on flying insects, but she’s small and can’t reach the ceiling.
I am going to mix your post with the one about the ceiling-kitty swatter, and suggest putting the terrier on the end of the shop vac…suction ought to hold her on real good…and hold her up to the ceiling!
Done it, it’s probably the funnest way to rid your home of insects… as long as you remember to take the shopvac outside and empty it out when you’re done. The survivors have no problem making their way out the hose after it’s shut off.
