Arks
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Discovered an interesting thing today. One of my vacation rental apartments (the one where the innkeeper road trip crew stayed) has no means of ventilation, no windows that open (I'm working to remedy that), meaning if someone cooks with garlic and onions, the only way to air the place out is to crack the front door open and turn on the vent hood over the kitchen range, and the vents in the bathroom.
So anyway, flipping the apartment today with kitchen odors to deal with, I opened the door a crack, went about my work, and eventually had a dozen flies in the place.
Luckily they all gathered in the windows, looking for a way to escape the cooking odors, no doubt.
I worked on them 15 minutes with a fly swat, with about 30% success. As I was using my Dustbuster hand vacuum to pick up the fly corpses, I said, what the heck, might as well try it, and it worked! 100% success rate by turning on the vacuum and slowly approaching the living flies on the window sills. They didn't fly away as long as I approached slowly, and the thing sucked them up before they could escape! Much easier than the swatter, and cleaner too.
If you try this, just be sure to take the thing out of doors to empty it, because as soon as I opened up the filter, they all flew away! But they had smiles on their faces, getting to spend that time in the filth of the vacuum bag!
So anyway, flipping the apartment today with kitchen odors to deal with, I opened the door a crack, went about my work, and eventually had a dozen flies in the place.
Luckily they all gathered in the windows, looking for a way to escape the cooking odors, no doubt.
I worked on them 15 minutes with a fly swat, with about 30% success. As I was using my Dustbuster hand vacuum to pick up the fly corpses, I said, what the heck, might as well try it, and it worked! 100% success rate by turning on the vacuum and slowly approaching the living flies on the window sills. They didn't fly away as long as I approached slowly, and the thing sucked them up before they could escape! Much easier than the swatter, and cleaner too.
If you try this, just be sure to take the thing out of doors to empty it, because as soon as I opened up the filter, they all flew away! But they had smiles on their faces, getting to spend that time in the filth of the vacuum bag!