Re: Here's my make shift gnat catcher

[Guest guest]

Perfect! Remember to put a drop of dish soap or liquid soap in their too, which

coats their wings and keeps them from flying out, otherwise, they could just

drink it and go, lol. I make these traps by inverting the cut off tops of two

liter soda bottles into the body-we don't drink soda in our house, so I get a

friend to save them for me-work great as wasp traps outside too. I NEED wasps,

bees, etc. in my gardens, but this keeps them from nesting around my doors,

under the eaves, etc.

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> Haven't seen any more gnats but I'm glad I did SOMETHING.

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFHGPftmcOs

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> And thanks to all who told me how to do this.

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> Melody

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[Guest guest]

I did it right?? Hallelulah!! And I did put the soap detergent (a few drops) in

each cup. I just watched youtube videos and they say to use glass jars. But I

don't care. I will use whatever is available.

You should have seen me chasing the darn gnat around with my little funnel

thing. I finally started laughing at myself and said " Puleeeze, it's a stupid

gnat, not the end of the world "

lol

Thanks much

Melody

[Guest guest]

LOL, too funny. I cant imagine why the suggest glass jars for catching

bugs-that is the ONE time I am happy to use plastic or styrofoam, lol. It

amazes me when I see 15 or 20 wasps caught in one of my traps in a days time!

Being plastic, I can just throw the whole thing away and start new-I do NOT want

to be fishing dead wasps out and cleaning it, thank you very much! lol

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> I did it right?? Hallelulah!! And I did put the soap detergent (a few drops)

in each cup. I just watched youtube videos and they say to use glass jars. But I

don't care. I will use whatever is available.

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> You should have seen me chasing the darn gnat around with my little funnel

thing. I finally started laughing at myself and said " Puleeeze, it's a stupid

gnat, not the end of the world "

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> lol

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> Thanks much

> Melody

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[Guest guest]

Oh, there's a guy on youtube named and he took a small mason jar, put

some banana skins down on the bottom, took saran wrap, covered the whole thing.

Secured saran rap with rubber bands. Then he took some hole poking device and

poked holes in the top of the saran wrap. WEll!!! you should have seen the fruit

flies he caught. OMG!!!

lol

Melody

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> > I did it right?? Hallelulah!! And I did put the soap detergent (a few

drops) in each cup. I just watched youtube videos and they say to use glass

jars. But I don't care. I will use whatever is available.

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> > You should have seen me chasing the darn gnat around with my little funnel

thing. I finally started laughing at myself and said " Puleeeze, it's a stupid

gnat, not the end of the world "

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> > lol

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> > Thanks much

> > Melody

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[Guest guest]

Which is the purpose of the dish detergent-they can't fly once their wings are

coated with it, lol.

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> > > I did it right?? Hallelulah!! And I did put the soap detergent (a few

> > drops) in each cup. I just watched youtube videos and they say to use glass

> > jars. But I don't care. I will use whatever is available.

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> > > You should have seen me chasing the darn gnat around with my little

> > funnel thing. I finally started laughing at myself and said " Puleeeze, it's

> > a stupid gnat, not the end of the world "

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> > > lol

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> > > Thanks much

> > > Melody

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