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i have loooot of spiders too. idk how exactly they came but when they came i never killed/threw them out and didn’t destroy their webs(well some in unconvinient places i did) i had lot of fruit flies and maybe they got good food eating these so they multiplied tremendously. maybe catch them somewhere (gently) and bring home and give them bugs to eat? sry i don’t know better they came themselves to me😂 but good luck to you! 🍀 🕸🕷
It's a little late in the season but I've been using a DIY trap made with a cheap storage bin and a desk fan. Cut a few windows in the sides and cover them with screen door material, cut a hole in the lid to fit the fan, then add a few gallons of water with dish soap to the bottom of the bin. I use a bottle with brown sugar, water, and yeast as bait, as well as something called Lurex. You can get a nine week supply of that for around $21 on amazon. It's satisfying checking the water every morning and seeing 30-40 dead ones at the bottom.
Put up 4 posts and a roof. Wrap in screen with a door one one side. A cooler of beer inside for bait. Walk out in the yard, you'll see the cooler of beer, you walk in the door, grab a beer, take a sip, and you'll forget about leaving. You wake up in the morning without a single mosquito bite!
The apple cider vinegar we usually put saran wrap over the top of the bowl and poke small holes in it with a toothpick...it really increases how many you catch
I was just about to make the same comment. I use this type of trap in my kitchen during the summer. I noticed fruit flies would come and go around the bowl and I was only catching a small percent of them. Once the wrap w/ holes in it was added, the amount of dead flies increased exponentially.
These have been some of the best insect trap reviews on the Internet. My favorite part is that "it doesn't work for these insects, but it works great for these others"
I worked in a fruit fly lab. What they like to eat is actually the yeast cultures on rotting fruit- not really the fruit itself. So you can use baker’s yeast as bait. Just mix it with some water to activate. I make disposable traps by making yeast paste in a baggie that is draped in a glass (like you are going to fill a pastry bag) then I tape a funnel that I make out of paper to the top (pointing down into the bag). They climb in through the hole in the funnel but are too dumb to get back out. Throw the whole bag away when the yeast starts to dry up. You could also add some yeast to your simple vinegar trap to turbocharge your bait.
In my own experience, I found red wine a bit more effective than vinegar. Additionally, you can also add sugar and yeast to have the fermentation process. Fermentation produces CO2 and makes it even more effective. My solution was pour some wine (or vinegar etc.) in a container, cover it with saran wrap, make some holes, add a couple drops of dish soap (to reduce the water surface tension and drown the flies).
Pooya The saran wrap trap you mentioned works the best for me. Haven’t tried the dish soap, though. But I have found that adding a small piece of banana peel to the vinegar seems to help.
@@Blacktop_Rabinowitz soap may drown flies _faster_ , but none will escape anyway. the acidic vinegar will neutralize the soap so the value of it won't last long. There is a few mm's layer above the surface of acetic acid vapor molecules and of CO2 which partly stun and slow down the insects in seconds, not to mention the acid they are now bathed in; it's dilute but brutal. They have no defense against this because although fermentation occurs in nature, there's no such phenomenon naturally occuring as pools of dilute acetic acid, just rotten fruit and the like.
Dang dude really appreciate you taking the time and effort to count the flies and stuff like that. TH-camrs like you really are underappreciated but you got my support through up and down and hope your channel grows.
100% apple cider vinegar works. I’ve also used a bit of corn syrup and that didn’t seem to harm anything. Now I did put a length of Saran Wrap down and punched some holes into it, not sure what the advantage/disadvantage’s were, but still seemed to work just fine!
Exactly! I use cider, both cider and wine vinegar work, but cider is better. I use a thin glass and make a funnel/cone with cling wrap and voilà, perfect fruit fly trap!
Same here with cling wrap - essentially a poor man's funnel trap. We think stale red wine works a little better than vinegar, but maybe it's just because our vinegar was too strong. Haven't found anything that truly controls them, but keeping the numbers in check at least helps.
hey Shawn at my house we use the apple cider vinegar, but we put in in a bottle with a little paper funnel on top. Its a good combination, works very well.
Said he doesn't keep it in the house. Probably keep it in his workshop or shed only as bait. Not in the cupboards where the little ones might go to eat it.
YuSooKey Or maybe he just walks into the food store and sticks his finger inside a peanut butter jar, then goes back home. You don’t need much peanut butter for a trap.
Tip for the vinegar trap: Mix the vinegar with something sweet with carbon dioxide like 7up or sprite and a bit of soap to break the surface tension and in stead of an regular glass use one concave like a brandy glass. Put some dishwasher soap on the walls so that the fruit flies can't get hold.
Also a tiny bit of dish soap in the vinegar to reduce the surface tension. As soon as they touch the vinegar they drown. I've always had great results with this
Hey Shawn I love watching your videos and you are a really great guy. I am so sorry that your videos are getting demonetized. I hope you keep uploading because I love watching!
@@-danR That has nothing to do with adding soap to break the surface tension. The soap makes it so the flies can't just land on top of the water and then fly away. Instead, they land and get sucked under where they drown.
Fruit flies are horrible flyers you don't even need a enclosed or tricky trap for them they just suicide in, so more surface area like leaving it open is better from my experience. At least vinegar and juice with dish soap doesn't stink so leaving open is fine.
@@DisheveledHuman I catch numerous yellow jackets around the dumpster with a little dish of automobile antifreeze. Ethylene glycol is sweet, and poisonous. They happily drink themselves to death.
Watered down old/leftover red wine with a single drop of dish soap works wonders. I used apple cider vinegar for years but nothing works as well as red wine. - Can be substantially improved by placing your red wine glass/cup under a nightlight on your kitchen counter. - They even prefer the wine over old bananas.
Shawn, if you ever do a flea trap test.. here's one for you. 1) Get a large casserole pan, or large cake pan, anything shallow and wide. 2) Get a candle, longer burning the better, the taller the better, the skinnier the better. (It is safer if the candle is not taller than the dish is wide) 3) melt the candle upright to the pan so that it won't tip over. 4) set the pan out before going to bed, preferably in the center of the room. 5) Dump soapy water into the pan. It must be soapy and you want to completely cover the bottom of the pan, but it doesn't have to be any fuller than that. 6) light the candle 7) Go to bed, check the pan in the morning. A few weeks of this treatment in every room of your house, and you can completely rid a house of fleas.
We use the same apple cider vinegar and a drop of Dawn dish soap, but we cover the bowl or cup with saran wrap and then poke holes with a toothpick. It works really well. If I get impatient, I drop in small pieces of fruit into the mix. Don't know if that makes it more effective, but it makes me feel better. LOL
Even better been doing it for years.. Place a large bowl of soapy water less then 6 inches underneath a night light! Catches everything fruit flies, fleas, flies, and moths. The soap keeps the surface tension of the water really low and they sink straight to the bottom.. Almost forgot to do it at night when you go to bed with all the lights off except the nightlight
I use a water bottle for a fruit fly trap. Cut the top off at the shoulder. Turn it upside down, and insert in the bottle. Put in a little warm ( 2 T ) water with ( 1 t ) sugar and ( 0.25 t ) yeast. Thanks for sharing your videos.
Sounds like what I used as a kid to protect the peach and nectarines from the fruit flies here in Australia, Plus a splash of mango juice OR apricot nectar to really set things off.
Shawn, The bait for the hi-tech trap is supposed to go in the shallow oblong indentions in each of the upper sections. So you may have trapped only one fifth of its potential maximum.
I think you didn't put the bait incorrectly in the spinny thing, atleast I've seen it having puddles of bait on the path of the spinner, I also believe it's meant for regular flies, not fruit flies Great vid, shawn
Thank you! This video came just in time. we had so many fruit flies in our house it was driving me mad. Did the apple cider vinegar with some dawn apple dish soap and I've got about 10 so far! 🙌
Hello Shawn I have tried the apple cider vinegar with only moderate success. On the other hand, in Germany, the wasps and hornets go down on beer. No matter what kind of trap you take in the evening, she is full of the critters. Continue to love your videos especially the mice and rat traps.
I tried a small container of fruit vinegar w/ a plastic lid having a few holes allowing fruit flies to crawl into. Works great because it's fruit vinegar, of course. Also, the loosely closed trap seems to attract more flies than the open one. I got a container and vinegar kit at the local store. Refills are sold separately, but the apple vinegar in my kitchen works just fine.
hi shawn! I just wanna say how much joy your videos bring me. When i found your channel i binge watched all the videos from this series...Your videos are so oddly calming and relaxing, keep up the amazing stuff!
*@Shawn Woods* 3:05 *NOOOO!* You are supposed to put the bait on the outside, in those little grooves/bowls between the spiral arms. Read the manual next time!
actually, killing yellowjackets in Germany is fine, as long as you're not destroying entire nests. When I painted my garage, for example, I could legally place a trap in front of their nest to protect myself, but I had to ask a local beekeeper to move the nest away from my garage once I was done.
KATCHY Electric Insect Trap worked well when we had a gnat problem in an apartment last summer and caught mosquitoes and fruit flies as well. As a bonus it can light up your fluorescent black light posters. It was a bit pricey, but you can save a bit by getting cheaper glue boards and cutting to size.
Shawn, I saw the automatic trap before and I don't believe it was ever made for fruit flies... it was designed fro house and black flies. While a novelty, it actually works well on the target species.
I'm love'n these insect traps!. I have way more insects than rodents. Thanks.... Here on Central Coast of Calif. we''ve had a white fly infestation. Totally ruined my tomato crop...any traps for those pests??
Definitely add a few drops of dish soap. Also, a tiny piece of seafood like a bit of shrimp works really well but also gets pretty stinky, especially in the summer.
Something about this man's voice makes me keep watching, I've never had a use for any kind of trap or anything like that but I watch these all the time
With the vinegar one, my family always put some plastic wrap over the top and poked holes in it with a fork, which makes it more difficult for the fruit flies to get out :)
I make my own. I use a clear plastic drink cup with a lid and shove a paper funnel into the straw hole. I fill the cup with a fruit (not grape) wine to within about 2 inches from the funnel tip. Put a couple drops of dish soap in to break surface tension and it's good to go. They work GREAT. I think I'll try the apple cider vinegar this year. Seemed to work good too. Thanks for the great video Shawn!
I've got a few different types of carnivorous plants, I wouldn't say they catch more flies but there is something really satisfying in seeing flies stuck on a sundew or walking into a venus flytrap and seeing the trap shut.
I like the simplicity of the vinegar trap. I used a plastic disposable bottle, punch a hole 1/2 way up and put wine or vinegar, drop of dish detergent. Fruit flies find the hole and crawl in. I playfully put a label on it "Hotel California".
I use vinegar with a bit of soap as well. But I also use a trap for it. I use a 2 liter bottle. cut off the top and flip it over and place it into the bottom to be a funnel trap.
I'm sure the meat that was roasted with the squash and the rice was swamp rat that kinda looks like beaver but they are really good to eat.onestly i have never had it but I have heard it is great tasting.i also like how u cooked the squash. I want to start cooking like u cuzz u know how to cook grate.👍👍👍😆
I have a trap that looks like wall plugin nightlight it has a blue light that shines out from the back that's "supposed" to attract the files and then catch them on a sticky plastic insert. It caught 3 flies over a month. There where at least 20 flies the kitchen every day. I still have it plugged in, it makes a good nightlight even if it sucks as a trap.
I feel like mine are drain gnats more than fruit flies, the sink and bathtub drain seem to be their biggest attraction. I usually use fly paper hanging in corners of the bathrooms, and a couple homemade traps from plastic bottles with a small hole in the top or cut in half with the top upside down to make a funnel. Then bait with vinegar, water and soap.
Hey Shawn, I have been using a bowl covered with saran wrap, holes poked in it probably half an inch (toothpick poked and stretched in the wrap) probably about 5-7 holes with beer as the bait. My room has a pretty bad problem. I've caught probably close to 75+ in one day and several hundred over the span of a week.
I made my own, I put a jar and poured apple cider vinegar inside around about half full, then I put clingfilm on top with small holes, it works pretty efficiently for me. I woke up 1 morning with around about 50 of them inside
CIDER VINEGAR an inch or two in jam jar place cling film over the top secured with rubber band then make a few holes in film with pencil point , they get but cant get out and drown ,works very well for fruit flies.
Hey Shawn! Don't know if you've done this video idea before, but there's a super simple, cheap, and easy trap for wasps and other insects me and my dad used to make when I was a kid. All you need is a soda bottle (mountain dew usually works the best). You drink or pour out about 2/3 of the bottle and cut the bottle in half through the middle so the tip you drink out of is intact. Flip the half with the cap on it upside down into the soda thats left and you can catch hundreds of insects within just a couple days. Would love to see you try it out, my friend!
Me: Nobody: TH-cam: Best Fruit fly traps Me: Why TF?.. Me mins later: Watches man strain ACV marinated winged insects, then count them. I have no regrets.
I use the apple cidar vinegar option.. However.. To make the flies stick.. I add dish washing soap. It makes it so that they are unable to climb/fly out. Great video! I always watch your videos during my long transit to work!
If you put about 3cm the cider vinegar in the bottom of a small jar and then put a matching size funnel in under the cap with a big hole in the lid they will fly in and get trapped. It also helps keep the smell down. We use it every year in late summer near the fresh fruit. It will go about a month before it's full of flies and needs changing.
@@IseenowAtl I had them in my house after using a window A/C last summer. The pest guys sprayed around the windows, and still I'd see them in/around the windows + bedroom + bathroom... After checking online, I tried a liberal amount of diatomaceous (sp?) earth around the sills and in the bathroom, where they also appeared to hang out. (Don't inhale this stuff.) After maybe 3 months, I think I was somewhere around 25-30 dead (coated in white) - and haven't seen any since. (I have no idea if they naturally would die in that time...) So, I can not prove or disprove... ...but it is super cheap and seems to have helped at least. I used 100% diatomaceous earth and a modified ketchup bottle for the duster. Other brands seem to have anti-caking agent and special dusters (don't inhale this stuff) - no idea if worth the extra money (but possibly).. Good luck...!
My trapchoise for fruit flies is an improved version of the ac-vinegar trap. Cover the trap with plastic wrap and punch some small holes to it with small fork or a toothpick.
For fruit flies, I use water in a shallow disposable container, sprinkle sugar in it for bait, and a bit of dish soap to break the water's surface tension and make sure the flies sink. Works very well.
I've had really good result with just the basic vinegar trap similar to yours. Only difference is I covered the top with plastic wrap and poked holes in it. Solved my fruit fly problem in only a few days.
We did something similar to this to keep our flies down. We put some apple cider vinegar in a mason jar and then put plastic wrap on top and poked holes in it. Worked like a charm!
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Thats cruelty to flies im reporting you
@@PatRick1981-s1w looks you have no brain
i use balsamic vinegar with blue tape over the top of a bowl poke holes with a tooth pick and let it sit and thats it
lol Sean you can’t say you are joking about a Mouse or Ratmeat sandwich then
in the next sentence say you are gonna catch and cook a Rodent.
I wish fruit flies were extinct
Shawn woods when buying a house:
Old home owner: the house has a huge mouse and rat infestation
Shawn woods:perfect
its free real estate
free mone- DEMONITIZATION!
nick thompson Shawn woods walks into the house and yells HELLO TH-cam CONTENT
lmao
gREaT foR YouTuBe
Personally, I've employed a small paramilitary spider task force to protect my fruit.
how? I want one
i have loooot of spiders too. idk how exactly they came but when they came i never killed/threw them out and didn’t destroy their webs(well some in unconvinient places i did) i had lot of fruit flies and maybe they got good food eating these so they multiplied tremendously. maybe catch them somewhere (gently) and bring home and give them bugs to eat? sry i don’t know better they came themselves to me😂 but good luck to you! 🍀 🕸🕷
Diggsworth wait until they want a raise then it’s war on you
Sounds like you’re trading one problem for another.
@@randygreen007 Ah, but that's when we introduce the birds to combat the spiders.
TH-cam: censors rat videos
Shawn: B U G S
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
M, Semper Fi!
Bugs demonitize anyway.
Haven't we seen that USB catcher before?
@@badlaamaurukehu TH-cam really doesn't like good channels.
Great to see you branching out to other traps for bugs.
Mosquitos!!!! Please help us find the perfect mosquito trap for my backyard.
x7j4 use a dynatrap. It works.
It's a little late in the season but I've been using a DIY trap made with a cheap storage bin and a desk fan. Cut a few windows in the sides and cover them with screen door material, cut a hole in the lid to fit the fan, then add a few gallons of water with dish soap to the bottom of the bin. I use a bottle with brown sugar, water, and yeast as bait, as well as something called Lurex. You can get a nine week supply of that for around $21 on amazon. It's satisfying checking the water every morning and seeing 30-40 dead ones at the bottom.
b1121 i thought you said dynamite
The Florida state bird
Put up 4 posts and a roof. Wrap in screen with a door one one side. A cooler of beer inside for bait. Walk out in the yard, you'll see the cooler of beer, you walk in the door, grab a beer, take a sip, and you'll forget about leaving. You wake up in the morning without a single mosquito bite!
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
You made my day xD
Wise words
Hello Zilean
"Very wise Grasshopper"
Deep thoughts by Jack Handy
The apple cider vinegar we usually put saran wrap over the top of the bowl and poke small holes in it with a toothpick...it really increases how many you catch
I was just about to make the same comment. I use this type of trap in my kitchen during the summer. I noticed fruit flies would come and go around the bowl and I was only catching a small percent of them. Once the wrap w/ holes in it was added, the amount of dead flies increased exponentially.
Same here but I have better luck using a few thawed frozen strawberries and water as bait. Going to try adding a bit of dish soap next time.
Did it work on usual flies too? Or just fruit flies?
I've done that successfully years ago. Thanks for helping me remember.
@@burntgyoza house flies usually like something decaying meat, poop, but some species like sweets two.
I bet a rat asked the sandwich question, to build a trap for Shawn.
Maybe in an alternate universe rats trap humans and there‘s a rat that makes youtube videos about catching us.
Sam Franco 😂😂🤦♂️
Haha lol
Ony Cruikshanks lmao
😂
These have been some of the best insect trap reviews on the Internet. My favorite part is that "it doesn't work for these insects, but it works great for these others"
I'm pretty sure the electric trap is made for house flies and not fruit flies since fruit flies can easily go through the slits
I worked in a fruit fly lab. What they like to eat is actually the yeast cultures on rotting fruit- not really the fruit itself. So you can use baker’s yeast as bait. Just mix it with some water to activate. I make disposable traps by making yeast paste in a baggie that is draped in a glass (like you are going to fill a pastry bag) then I tape a funnel that I make out of paper to the top (pointing down into the bag). They climb in through the hole in the funnel but are too dumb to get back out. Throw the whole bag away when the yeast starts to dry up. You could also add some yeast to your simple vinegar trap to turbocharge your bait.
I have the same electric fly trap. The bait powder is supposed to go into the small indents in each of the segments.
EXACTLY I don’t even have one of those and I knew that by looking at the design
Dose it work
I think hed also say something like "oh well in that case the price wont be a problem"
I think that powder is called diatomaceous earth it's very cheap in bulk but works good around your garden for bugs
@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside
Diatomaceous earth is not a bait powder.
In my own experience, I found red wine a bit more effective than vinegar. Additionally, you can also add sugar and yeast to have the fermentation process. Fermentation produces CO2 and makes it even more effective. My solution was pour some wine (or vinegar etc.) in a container, cover it with saran wrap, make some holes, add a couple drops of dish soap (to reduce the water surface tension and drown the flies).
Pooya bruh this dude trying to kill off the whole species
Pooya The saran wrap trap you mentioned works the best for me. Haven’t tried the dish soap, though. But I have found that adding a small piece of banana peel to the vinegar seems to help.
@@Blacktop_Rabinowitz
soap may drown flies _faster_ , but none will escape anyway. the acidic vinegar will neutralize the soap so the value of it won't last long. There is a few mm's layer above the surface of acetic acid vapor molecules and of CO2 which partly stun and slow down the insects in seconds, not to mention the acid they are now bathed in; it's dilute but brutal. They have no defense against this because although fermentation occurs in nature, there's no such phenomenon naturally occuring as pools of dilute acetic acid, just rotten fruit and the like.
I use homemade wine that didn't turn out for my traps, works great, better than vinegar.
Do I have a problem with fruit flies? Nope.
Do I have a need for a fly trap? Until summer (Australia), nope.
Will I watch this video anyway? *Yes.*
XBakaTacoX I’m Australian too it’s summer now go get one lol
@@thecatinthecloset5871 it summer right now 😉
10:34 you flash an image of you and a swamp rat. Looks delicious. I've eaten Nutria and they're good eating.
Yeah!! I almost missed!!
yeah i was going to say the same thing. it actually looks pretty good tbh
10:35 *
Yeah
chew chew chew
Dang dude really appreciate you taking the time and effort to count the flies and stuff like that. TH-camrs like you really are underappreciated but you got my support through up and down and hope your channel grows.
100% apple cider vinegar works. I’ve also used a bit of corn syrup and that didn’t seem to harm anything. Now I did put a length of Saran Wrap down and punched some holes into it, not sure what the advantage/disadvantage’s were, but still seemed to work just fine!
Exactly! I use cider, both cider and wine vinegar work, but cider is better. I use a thin glass and make a funnel/cone with cling wrap and voilà, perfect fruit fly trap!
Same here with cling wrap - essentially a poor man's funnel trap. We think stale red wine works a little better than vinegar, but maybe it's just because our vinegar was too strong. Haven't found anything that truly controls them, but keeping the numbers in check at least helps.
I use red wine which works great too. Wonder if he could see which is better red wine or Vinegar.
hey Shawn at my house we use the apple cider vinegar, but we put in in a bottle with a little paper funnel on top. Its a good combination, works very well.
Shawn: I don't have peanut butter because my kids are allergic
Also Shawn: *Uses peanut butter for mouse traps*
you caught him there...
Ha! Went right by me unnoticed. Can't believe I missed that.
Said he doesn't keep it in the house. Probably keep it in his workshop or shed only as bait. Not in the cupboards where the little ones might go to eat it.
YuSooKey Or maybe he just walks into the food store and sticks his finger inside a peanut butter jar, then goes back home. You don’t need much peanut butter for a trap.
@@YuSooKey Dude why can't you just let us laugh in peace?!
Tip for the vinegar trap:
Mix the vinegar with something sweet with carbon dioxide like 7up or sprite and a bit of soap to break the surface tension and in stead of an regular glass use one concave like a brandy glass. Put some dishwasher soap on the walls so that the fruit flies can't get hold.
Also a tiny bit of dish soap in the vinegar to reduce the surface tension. As soon as they touch the vinegar they drown. I've always had great results with this
@@Philitron128 yes, that's what I said
Yeah, I agree, soap makes it much more effective.
The soap isn't supposed to be scented though, right?
Hey Shawn I love watching your videos and you are a really great guy. I am so sorry that your videos are getting demonetized. I hope you keep uploading because I love watching!
Kirby Podolan does he have a patron?
Wyatt Crosby I’m not sure
"the water not only smells like death but is filled of insect death" -shawn woods
Put a small drop of dawn soap in the vinegar to break the surface tension! It changes everything!
I've never found that necessary, and soap is basic whereas cider is acidic so soap's neutralized pretty soon.
@@-danR thats not how surface tension works mate
He says that at about 8:20
@@-danR That has nothing to do with adding soap to break the surface tension. The soap makes it so the flies can't just land on top of the water and then fly away. Instead, they land and get sucked under where they drown.
Another option is beer and dish liquid. This works really well.
On roommates, I bet!
Yes, houseflies especially, but fruit flies too
Apple cider vinegar in that yellow trap would be perfect!
you still need a protein component preferably rotting pork or beef to make it effective for yellow jackets
@@DisheveledHuman I was thinking just for the fruit flies, unless you kept it outside away from the house.
Fruit flies are horrible flyers you don't even need a enclosed or tricky trap for them they just suicide in, so more surface area like leaving it open is better from my experience. At least vinegar and juice with dish soap doesn't stink so leaving open is fine.
@@DisheveledHuman I catch numerous yellow jackets around the dumpster with a little dish of automobile antifreeze. Ethylene glycol is sweet, and poisonous. They happily drink themselves to death.
Watered down old/leftover red wine with a single drop of dish soap works wonders. I used apple cider vinegar for years but nothing works as well as red wine. - Can be substantially improved by placing your red wine glass/cup under a nightlight on your kitchen counter. - They even prefer the wine over old bananas.
Shawn, if you ever do a flea trap test.. here's one for you.
1) Get a large casserole pan, or large cake pan, anything shallow and wide.
2) Get a candle, longer burning the better, the taller the better, the skinnier the better. (It is safer if the candle is not taller than the dish is wide)
3) melt the candle upright to the pan so that it won't tip over.
4) set the pan out before going to bed, preferably in the center of the room.
5) Dump soapy water into the pan. It must be soapy and you want to completely cover the bottom of the pan, but it doesn't have to be any fuller than that.
6) light the candle
7) Go to bed, check the pan in the morning.
A few weeks of this treatment in every room of your house, and you can completely rid a house of fleas.
is it safe to leave the candle lighted like that ?
They are probably drawn to the light so I believe there are other alternatives.
YES, WE USED IN OLD SHARECROPPERS SHACK WE LIVED IN.
Oh god I just had a great idea
Mousetrap Monday’s
Flytrap Friday’s
Snailtrap Saturday
Oh god you forgot to put up your “Great Idea Button”
*flicks it on*
💡
"Smells like toe jam" I LOVE THAT 👏
What's a toe jam
@@hansongnaily discusting grey stuff that gets between your toes why does he like that
That is the absolute worst way to put it. I've got to go to get my vile soul dry cleaned now.
Haha ewww 🤣
We use the same apple cider vinegar and a drop of Dawn dish soap, but we cover the bowl or cup with saran wrap and then poke holes with a toothpick. It works really well. If I get impatient, I drop in small pieces of fruit into the mix. Don't know if that makes it more effective, but it makes me feel better. LOL
Nice video I think the electronic one is more for normal flies with different bait
Edit: I catched the hidden tumbnail at the end
There was no thumbnail at the end rewatch it
@@jakerobertson1700 not exactly at the end but at 10:34 more or less
@@briansegarra9312 ahh ok, so he cooking swap rats...
Even better been doing it for years.. Place a large bowl of soapy water less then 6 inches underneath a night light! Catches everything fruit flies, fleas, flies, and moths. The soap keeps the surface tension of the water really low and they sink straight to the bottom..
Almost forgot to do it at night when you go to bed with all the lights off except the nightlight
I use a water bottle for a fruit fly trap. Cut the top off at the shoulder. Turn it upside down, and insert in the bottle.
Put in a little warm ( 2 T ) water with ( 1 t ) sugar and ( 0.25 t ) yeast.
Thanks for sharing your videos.
Sounds like what I used as a kid to protect the peach and nectarines from the fruit flies here in Australia, Plus a splash of mango juice OR apricot nectar to really set things off.
your recipe also works well for moskitoes because of the co2 the yeast and sugar will release (especially if there is no human around)
Shawn, The bait for the hi-tech trap is supposed to go in the shallow oblong indentions in each of the upper sections. So you may have trapped only one fifth of its potential maximum.
I think you didn't put the bait incorrectly in the spinny thing, atleast I've seen it having puddles of bait on the path of the spinner, I also believe it's meant for regular flies, not fruit flies
Great vid, shawn
Thank you! This video came just in time. we had so many fruit flies in our house it was driving me mad. Did the apple cider vinegar with some dawn apple dish soap and I've got about 10 so far! 🙌
Hello Shawn I have tried the apple cider vinegar with only moderate success. On the other hand, in Germany, the wasps and hornets go down on beer. No matter what kind of trap you take in the evening, she is full of the critters.
Continue to love your videos especially the mice and rat traps.
Make sure to add a drop or two of dish soap , breaks the surface tension and they drown , if you don't have that they'll go in for a drink dn fly away
Lol couldn’t do that with American beer. The Germans know their beer
I tried a small container of fruit vinegar w/ a plastic lid having a few holes allowing fruit flies to crawl into. Works great because it's fruit vinegar, of course. Also, the loosely closed trap seems to attract more flies than the open one. I got a container and vinegar kit at the local store. Refills are sold separately, but the apple vinegar in my kitchen works just fine.
almost empty wine bottle works very well I've found
TRUE! I forgot about that one. They have a hard time finding the way back out
No one:
Shawn woods: let me get my pet fly to try it out
This makes me think of the saying “ you’ll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.”
hi shawn! I just wanna say how much joy your videos bring me. When i found your channel i binge watched all the videos from this series...Your videos are so oddly calming and relaxing, keep up the amazing stuff!
*@Shawn Woods*
3:05 *NOOOO!* You are supposed to put the bait on the outside, in those little grooves/bowls between the spiral arms. Read the manual next time!
actually, killing yellowjackets in Germany is fine, as long as you're not destroying entire nests.
When I painted my garage, for example, I could legally place a trap in front of their nest to protect myself, but I had to ask a local beekeeper to move the nest away from my garage once I was done.
10:34 The comma (,) and period (.) keys let you reverse or forward a single frame at a time respectively.
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KATCHY Electric Insect Trap worked well when we had a gnat problem in an apartment last summer and caught mosquitoes and fruit flies as well. As a bonus it can light up your fluorescent black light posters. It was a bit pricey, but you can save a bit by getting cheaper glue boards and cutting to size.
Shawn,
I saw the automatic trap before and I don't believe it was ever made for fruit flies... it was designed fro house and black flies. While a novelty, it actually works well on the target species.
Vinegar is good for so many things. Thanks Shawn!
10:34 Shawn "Sneaky" Woods.
I'm love'n these insect traps!. I have way more insects than rodents. Thanks.... Here on Central Coast of Calif. we''ve had a white fly infestation. Totally ruined my tomato crop...any traps for those pests??
Tearjerker, what do I do with the tomato juice, put it in a bowl or what?
in commercial orchards in uk you often see small pot-type traps hanging in the trees. a call to an agricultural / horticulture supplier may help?
Tearjerker I don’t really think tomato juice is an option for him 😂
Definitely add a few drops of dish soap. Also, a tiny piece of seafood like a bit of shrimp works really well but also gets pretty stinky, especially in the summer.
Something about this man's voice makes me keep watching, I've never had a use for any kind of trap or anything like that but I watch these all the time
With the vinegar one, my family always put some plastic wrap over the top and poked holes in it with a fork, which makes it more difficult for the fruit flies to get out :)
Love ur channel and content keep it up I await your next video!
(This is very helpful)
I make my own. I use a clear plastic drink cup with a lid and shove a paper funnel into the straw hole. I fill the cup with a fruit (not grape) wine to within about 2 inches from the funnel tip. Put a couple drops of dish soap in to break surface tension and it's good to go. They work GREAT. I think I'll try the apple cider vinegar this year. Seemed to work good too. Thanks for the great video Shawn!
For fruit flies, I've had some luck with a glass of white wine with laundry detergent.
I've got a few different types of carnivorous plants, I wouldn't say they catch more flies but there is something really satisfying in seeing flies stuck on a sundew or walking into a venus flytrap and seeing the trap shut.
I think you bated the USB trap incorrectly. I think when big Clive did his he used the oblong ovals in between the combs.
still more a novelty collectors trap then an effective trap.
@@prcervi A big advantage is that you can catch flies alive with this one
why would you want live flies?
@@prcervi none of your business! (JK)
@@prcervi In case you want to feed them to other pets. Like insects
I like the simplicity of the vinegar trap. I used a plastic disposable bottle, punch a hole 1/2 way up and put wine or vinegar, drop of dish detergent. Fruit flies find the hole and crawl in. I playfully put a label on it "Hotel California".
You should of done this video on Friday!!! It would of been *Fly Trap Friday!*
Really liked the Q/A portion. Love your videos Shawn :)
Marshmello x no one is bringing up how funny the rat meat sandwiches joke was
you should do a video testing catching flies with honey vs apple cider vinegar (like the old saying!)
Good one, I'd kind of like to see that too.
I use vinegar with a bit of soap as well. But I also use a trap for it. I use a 2 liter bottle. cut off the top and flip it over and place it into the bottom to be a funnel trap.
I love your videos, Shawn.
Always something interesting!
I'm sure the meat that was roasted with the squash and the rice was swamp rat that kinda looks like beaver but they are really good to eat.onestly i have never had it but I have heard it is great tasting.i also like how u cooked the squash. I want to start cooking like u cuzz u know how to cook grate.👍👍👍😆
What Is your Favorite Bug?
P.S :I think in the next Vid, your cooking Swap Rats..
Yeah
Spider bois
I have a trap that looks like wall plugin nightlight it has a blue light that shines out from the back that's "supposed" to attract the files and then catch them on a sticky plastic insert. It caught 3 flies over a month. There where at least 20 flies the kitchen every day. I still have it plugged in, it makes a good nightlight even if it sucks as a trap.
Purpose of compost pile to decompose then he puts a fly trap 😂
He did it to put the three traps to the test you idiot!
I feel like mine are drain gnats more than fruit flies, the sink and bathtub drain seem to be their biggest attraction. I usually use fly paper hanging in corners of the bathrooms, and a couple homemade traps from plastic bottles with a small hole in the top or cut in half with the top upside down to make a funnel. Then bait with vinegar, water and soap.
Watch him get this vid taken down for showing flies 😂 love ur vids sooo much man
Hey Shawn,
I have been using a bowl covered with saran wrap, holes poked in it probably half an inch (toothpick poked and stretched in the wrap) probably about 5-7 holes with beer as the bait.
My room has a pretty bad problem.
I've caught probably close to 75+ in one day and several hundred over the span of a week.
2:10 LOL 1000x speed
He meant 1000% speed
I made my own, I put a jar and poured apple cider vinegar inside around about half full, then I put clingfilm on top with small holes, it works pretty efficiently for me. I woke up 1 morning with around about 50 of them inside
I'd love to see you make a video about ways to catch/traps slugs. I'm tired of them eating the strawberries in my garden.
He did it's a 3d printed one
BEER IN TUNA CANS.......
Slugs hate coffee.. I always put the used ground coffeebeans around the plants. The stuff sticks to them. (Sorry for bad english)
CIDER VINEGAR an inch or two in jam jar place cling film over the top secured with rubber band then make a few holes in film with pencil point , they get but cant get out and drown ,works very well for fruit flies.
I just recently got a huge infestation of those nasty buggers. This is a really helpful video! Thank you ♥️
Bruh y ur profile pic a dead sayori that is so sad
@@4d_chesser her outfit is on point tho in that pic
Wut?
Really loved the Q&A time!!!
Next video. : Catching wild bacteria 🦠 from my yard. Lolool
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Hey Shawn! Don't know if you've done this video idea before, but there's a super simple, cheap, and easy trap for wasps and other insects me and my dad used to make when I was a kid. All you need is a soda bottle (mountain dew usually works the best). You drink or pour out about 2/3 of the bottle and cut the bottle in half through the middle so the tip you drink out of is intact. Flip the half with the cap on it upside down into the soda thats left and you can catch hundreds of insects within just a couple days. Would love to see you try it out, my friend!
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Me mins later: Watches man strain ACV marinated winged insects, then count them. I have no regrets.
I use the apple cidar vinegar option.. However.. To make the flies stick.. I add dish washing soap.
It makes it so that they are unable to climb/fly out.
Great video!
I always watch your videos during my long transit to work!
"I don't want anything to do with PETA" ....LMAO yeah you and me both!!
Your presentations are SO good. Thank you
Can you also trap rabbits, I really want to catch them but somehow they’re too precautious can you please help to make a video about it?
Just be very very quiet
@@charliejeal7199 it's Duck Season!
@@AndrewBeals Wabbit theathon!
Q: What’s your favorite sandwich
Me: A Reuben
Shawn: A Reuben
Me: :0
You are shawn woods‘ illegitemate child!
I don't even like Reubens, but when he said he doesn't like cold sandwiches, I also correctly guessed Reuben just before he said it. LOL!
If you put about 3cm the cider vinegar in the bottom of a small jar and then put a matching size funnel in under the cap with a big hole in the lid they will fly in and get trapped. It also helps keep the smell down. We use it every year in late summer near the fresh fruit. It will go about a month before it's full of flies and needs changing.
Now tell me how to do this with Stink Bugs. Those little devils keep attacking my crops.
And my home!!! Please help!!
@@IseenowAtl I had them in my house after using a window A/C last summer. The pest guys sprayed around the windows, and still I'd see them in/around the windows + bedroom + bathroom...
After checking online, I tried a liberal amount of diatomaceous (sp?) earth around the sills and in the bathroom, where they also appeared to hang out. (Don't inhale this stuff.) After maybe 3 months, I think I was somewhere around 25-30 dead (coated in white) - and haven't seen any since. (I have no idea if they naturally would die in that time...)
So, I can not prove or disprove... ...but it is super cheap and seems to have helped at least. I used 100% diatomaceous earth and a modified ketchup bottle for the duster. Other brands seem to have anti-caking agent and special dusters (don't inhale this stuff) - no idea if worth the extra money (but possibly).. Good luck...!
I put Saran Wrap over the acv container with several small holes - it catches more fruit flies with fewer fly aways
My house is infested there even in the toilet
Lol your joke at the end was delivered with the utmost enthusiasm 😂
You got the Apple Cider Vinegar from Costco! I recognize the Kirkland Signature brand only sold in Costco. Joe
DOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really needed this!! Thank you ❤ I enjoy watching your content!
Hello There, imagine there was a war between rats and mice, mouse
Rats would win hands down.
What about chipmunk skunks moles voles and gophers?
I am not sure about it
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My trapchoise for fruit flies is an improved version of the ac-vinegar trap. Cover the trap with plastic wrap and punch some small holes to it with small fork or a toothpick.
“Ok, question and answer time.” 😐
For fruit flies, I use water in a shallow disposable container, sprinkle sugar in it for bait, and a bit of dish soap to break the water's surface tension and make sure the flies sink. Works very well.
The next video is catching delicious swamp rats
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I've had really good result with just the basic vinegar trap similar to yours. Only difference is I covered the top with plastic wrap and poked holes in it. Solved my fruit fly problem in only a few days.
Mousetrap Monday, but it’s Tuesday!?
Its Monday here in the states.
"Reality can be whatever I want."
its monday on planet earth
It’s Monday
We did something similar to this to keep our flies down. We put some apple cider vinegar in a mason jar and then put plastic wrap on top and poked holes in it. Worked like a charm!