An outbreak of house flies
in the yard. Don’t know what causes it, but it happens around this time
of year. It’s annoying.
Got an idea,
researched online, and put out a fly trap consisting of a hanging two-quart jar
with some attractant and water in it that draws the flies in and they can’t get
out. It worked. It smells terrible, so we had to put it a ways away
from the deck, but it works. After a few weeks we had a pretty good
collection of flies floating in there, but then things got weird. It
started collecting faster and faster until it was almost full. I’ll spare
you the photo. That couldn’t be right because there just weren’t that
many flies to collect in the first place. I realized that not only were
flies trapped in the jar and couldn’t get out, they were breeding in the jar
before they died and the population was increasing exponentially!
Gross! We now know
there is a practical time limit on how long we can leave that fly trap
out. We disposed of the old one and put a fresh one out.
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