How To Kill A Deer Fly

It's time to put the deer flies in a sticky situation.
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In this video, we make some traps to catch all these deer flies that keep attacking me every time I walk outside.
🕒 Timestamps:
00:00 - Step 1: Materials
00:09 - Step 2: Painting
00:24 - Step 3: Coating
00:39 - Step 4: Mounting
01:36 - Testing the Hanging Trap
02:39 - Results and Observations
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Thumbnail image taken by Robert Webster and used under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

[@SlyThePumpkinGuy]

Try tree tanglefoot for the sticky stuff

[@alexsummersell3567]

For the hanging pots, have a wind catcher below the pot. Picture a windchime. It has a wooden disk hanging below to catch the wind. Put one below the pot too. Maybe that will get your pots moving in the wind.

[@MagnoliaBend]

Ahh that’s a good idea, thanks!

[@joanscott9323]

Thanks for the video! Definitely always interested in ways to address flying things outside. Being super sensitive to insect bites means Benadryl isn’t just for allergies! The poles seem most effective for now (wonder if it would work if put at topsides of pergola using poles), and also am very interested in your studies with hanging them off trees, etc. can’t wait for next video!

[@MagnoliaBend]

Thanks for watching!! There’s a little extra “work” in using the pole trap, but I think it’s worth it. Since I made the video I haven’t had to walk around with it again yet, because once you reduce the population significantly it takes time for new ones to move in.
I think I read before that only female deer flies bite, and they have to get that blood to reproduce. So if you kill enough of them, it really stunts the population for a couple weeks.

[@robertvanderhoof6082]

Hey it works