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Post by bswiv on Apr 27, 2024 18:12:45 GMT -5
Time to break out the blue balls......covered in Tanglefoot.......and mounted on all 4 electric carts, and the tractors.... What's on the one close up is from just today......it was clean when we left for a trip around the loop road to change chips in cameras. Could not happen to a better bunch of bugs...............and to not have to slater on repellent is a bonus..... Even have one set up so that we can make a pass around the barns in the morning so as to clear them out for a while during the day.   |
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Post by 4ward on Apr 27, 2024 18:22:16 GMT -5
I had the first ones today, gotta put the truck windows up before I pull in.
Territorial little bastards. I’m not sure there is anything more despicable.
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Post by conchydong on Apr 27, 2024 18:41:39 GMT -5
I thought this topic was leading elsewhere but glad it isn’t.
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Post by mapper on Apr 27, 2024 18:43:06 GMT -5
Do the black balls work as well as the blue ones? I think I have a pair I haven't tried yet.
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Post by swampdog on Apr 27, 2024 18:47:02 GMT -5
According to UF studies several years ago, that particular color of blue is a definite attractant. I have noticed however pretty much any color of blue will attract them.
I’ll be obtaining more Tanglefoot shortly.
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Post by bswiv on Apr 27, 2024 19:21:14 GMT -5
According to UF studies several years ago, that particular color of blue is a definite attractant. I have noticed however pretty much any color of blue will attract them. I’ll be obtaining more Tanglefoot shortly. We tried to disprove the "color" thing.........but......it does seem that the blue works best. Tried it by setting different colors in 4 corners of the truck and riding through the woods.......blue caught more of the &^^%$$#@*&^% little &&^^%$##@@! than any other color....so.....as we have no sympathy for them.....and as we figure we're doing the rest of the animals in the woods a favor......we go with what catches the most..... |
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Post by stc1993 on Apr 27, 2024 19:34:05 GMT -5
What's it Catching yellow flies?
That's what I hated the most in the panhandle.
They'd tear you up cleaning fish.
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Post by bswiv on Apr 27, 2024 19:52:11 GMT -5
What's it Catching yellow flies? That's what I hated the most in the panhandle. They'd tear you up cleaning fish. "Tanglefoot"........basically a natural glue......tree sap if I understand correctly........... A number of ways to get it. We've used the full strength in the gallon and then cut it with turpentine or mineral spirits so that it's easier to brush onto the balls. The balls are simply old crab trap floats. Just as with when the darn nasty things bang into your car mirror.....or bounce off of your head time and again......they will do so with the blue balls. But....well......you can see what happens. And......even the ones that manage to pull free are screwed as they can not get it off of their feet or wings and therefore are not able to do more damage to the rest of us. Not much that's more satisfying than to see a bunch of them stuck on a ball, their legs flailing and that nasty proboscis that they'd stick us with probing the air frustratingly...... It's beautiful.....just beautiful...... |
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Post by Stumpy on Apr 27, 2024 20:09:03 GMT -5
Where do you buy the Tanglefoot at?
Do you scrape the Flys off or are they just big ball of Flys getting bigger, bigger, bigger.....
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Post by stc1993 on Apr 27, 2024 20:51:28 GMT -5
I looked up the Tanglewood it looks to be about $50 a gallon.
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Post by bswiv on Apr 28, 2024 5:50:38 GMT -5
Where do you buy the Tanglefoot at? Do you scrape the Flys off or are they just big ball of Flys getting bigger, bigger, bigger..... One of the farm or horse supply online places will be less expensive than Lowes or AMAZON so spend a few minutes looking. Scrape it off every so often and paint on a new layer. Paint scraper and a rag..... At the end of the season, and in truth the yellow flies do taper off to about nothing in time, clean them off and shove in a plastic bag. |
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Post by bswiv on Apr 28, 2024 5:54:25 GMT -5
I looked up the Tanglewood it looks to be about $50 a gallon. A gallon will last forever if you're doing only one or two. We have 4 on electric carts, 2 on tractors and a couple sitting for when the yard needs to be deflied and even for that much a gallon lasted 6+ years. |
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Post by gardawg on Apr 28, 2024 7:58:24 GMT -5
they sound similar to black flies ... those things bite like a MF'er
Humans as well as domestic animals may be viciously attacked. The eyes, ears, nostrils, wrists, and all exposed parts of the body of man are subject to attack. The extreme pain, itching, and the resultant local swellings, together with occasional severe complications, indicate the presence of an active allergin. In some individuals, the face, arms, and other exposed parts may be greatly swollen as a result of the bites; in others, effects other than blood loss may scarcely be noticeable.
Livestock and poultry are sometimes killed by large numbers of black flies. Death seems, in most cases, to be the consequence of a toxemia caused by the bites or the result of an anaphylactic shock; although debility resulting from blood loss and suffocation brought about by inhalation of the flies is apparently a contributing cause. In addition, certain species are known to transmit leucocytozoon, microfilaria, and trypanosome infections in poultry.
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Post by swampdog on Apr 28, 2024 8:17:17 GMT -5
They tear my wife up. She swells up at the bite and itches like crazy. They bite me and I don’t even swellor itch anymore. The actual bite usually alerts me to their presence; that and their harassing flying around me.
We occasionally will buy an inflatable blue ball and use that to catch with the tanglefoot.
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Post by gogittum on Apr 28, 2024 10:41:28 GMT -5
Yah, they do go after particular individuals. I remember sitting around the pool in the evening with other tenants at an apt. in Palm Springs and the gnats were driving me nuts - clouds of them around my head.
One of the others looked at me and sneered, "what are you waving your arms at ??" Someone else looked at a different angle and started laughing. "You should see the cloud of flies around him," he said.
No one else was being bothered, so I guess I was doing them a favor. Po' little me.
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