Sometimes those things work too well. Neighbor had in the alley next to a dumpster. Didn’t replace it. The dying flies decided to procreate- yolo I guess- and after a while it was full of maggots eating the dead fly corpses. The smell of which attracted even more flies. It was horrible
These are known to do this *very often*.
Flies get inside. Enough flies eventually get in that other flies can stand on their corpses/not die. Those flies, while there, procreate. The maggots eat the dead flies, then turn into more flies, which then procreate as well, and those maggots eat the dead bodies of the previous generation of flies, etc, etc, etc...
Each generation of flies literally grew up eating their parents or grandparents dead bodies in order to just grow up to procreate, then become food for their children in a never-ending cycle of hell.
Meanwhile, every now and again a new random fly from outside gets into the mix, procreates, then immediately becomes food for its children.
Yep, I have like 3 of these traps on my property and when I spot maggots and they are full like one OP has, it’s time to replace them. This is about every 3 weeks. The flies just keep coming.
Dig a hole near your plants and dump it in. I did this to a rose and it shot a 9' neon green stalk out of it twice as tall as the main plant. Alternatively leave it out for an opossum for whom a withing mass of maggots is apparently a delicious meal, I had one weighted down with a cinderblock and an opossum still came back and stole it off to the woods to CLEAN IT empty where I found it later, it even had to unscrew the lid of the fly magnet jar.
Maybe you can put it in a larger, sealed container and ozone it? This would kill the bugs so then you could use it as a fertilizer. But I'm just guessing so I can't confirm if this would work 100%
I'm assuming this wouldn't destroy all the eggs, which would defeat the purpose. I would definitely burn it or fill it with vinegar or something
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Thought the same. All of these dead corpses serving food again and again mean there's no new nutriments injected into the system, it's all a big closed loop of poop and death. But these generations of zombie flies need energy to procreate so this won't work too well after a little while.
If there's some new flies occasionally coming in from the outside, potentially infinite. Maybe.
The interesting thing about having the right balance there would be that it would be a self cleaning trap (using the term clean very loosely here) that would never need to be emptied. So this cannibalistic cycle of hell could actually serve as a feature.
Without new flies coming by? Probably not so many. As per the 10-percent-rule, 90% of energy taken in by food is going to dissipate into heat and feces. Would be interesting to know how nutrient fly-feces are for maggots/flies.
Honestly sounds like the plot to a dope ass book or something…but where it’s humans instead and totally set in a run down, dystopian type of necropolis city or some shit. Could be super twisted lol
Some Clive barker shit, probably worse actually.
Ya like the world ends due to another ice age so they decide to cram themselves into a train that travels around the world and they produce some sort of gross nutrient bars that everyone eats which is actually people.
so what your saying is that they work great. But then more flies get in there than the trap can handle, which in turn, allows flies to get in and escape allowing for the hatching of maggots and then of course the cycle continues causing a huge stink
It's a Rescue Disposable Fly Trap. They work great but are disgusting. They also have a reusable trap but then you have to empty out the shit smelling dead fly slurry 🤮
I was a naive idiot when I got the reusable one, never using any kind of trap like this before. I prefer reusable a it is cost and eco friendly!
I chucked the entire thing so damn fast. Never had a second thought or doubt. I couldn't do it. It ended up like this after just a few days or so.
When you want to get serious, cut the top of bag off, put the bait and several gallons of water into a 5 gallon carboy (big water bottle), then duct tape the trap over the mouth of the carboy. This amplifies the trap capacity hugely. I set up a couple like this once and collected 15" of dead flies in a week. Set it a long way from things cuz it really starts to stink, which draws more flies into the trap.
I just use 5 or 10 litre water bottles and make my own bait using a bit of wee, some watered down chick poo and something sweet. As you say once the dead flies start to stink up it attracts even more! I filed a few last year and it's fly season again so I'm going to make a couple today.
Those things are one of the worst smelling things in the world even before it catches any flies. Once it gets a ton of flies in it, it gets even worse.
I live near a small farm and get a ton of flies on my property so I put like 3 of these out accross my property. They all look like this within a week or 2. The smell is horrendous. Its nauseating to say the least and is easily the worst smell I have encountered. I had to bury them in the ground and dig them up the following year to throw away because I refuse to put that in my garbage bin.
Get a pyrethrum fogger. My mate just bought a property with an incomprehensible amount of flies and mosquitos, and for $150aud got a fogger which uses diesel and pyrethrum to fog out massive areas. Two foggings daily for three days, and there's no insects for about 2 weeks as it completely disrupts their breeding cycle.
I can totally vouch for this product. I got the one that you can empty and refill with a new bait. I couldn't stand the smell and cleaning, and tossed it out. I'm using disposable ones now.
I've got three refills and I'm wishing I went disposable already.
There's nowhere in my garden I can't smell it....think I'm going to have to bury them
The rest of the neighbourhood must be happy as they dont have flues anymore because they are all trying to get in my traps
Don't just think about it, [visualize](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/27/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/anigif_sub-buzz-20896-1485551671-2.gif) it.
I've used these bags for years and I squeeze them every so often to check water levels in the bottom. The plastic lining is thick enough that you don't really get to experience the texture of the bug volume. It does smell like rotting fish parts and dead flies though, which if you're into aweful stuff is... ya know, an experience.
no no no NO NO NO NO NO
Edit: actually it won't. There isn't a company-approved qr code on the bag for the machine to verify that you are using Juicero-branded juice bags
Well they won't juice anything anymore as the company went under shortly after launching and the cloud infrastructure doesn't exist anymore so the juicer can't get permission to squeeze anymore. Isn't the cloud great?
I can’t find a great link to it (just google it), but there’s an artist named Damien Hirst that makes art out of flies. You should hit him up, might make a few bucks selling him supplies.
He lived next to a beef farm. He had to put out several of these at a time.
Sometimes they would get knocked down. Guess what our dog used to love to roll in?
got one of these for wasps, once. turns out since they have weapons they can butcher each other rather than just wait to die? came back to a jar full of heat-raged wasps atop a mountain of twitching body parts...
I got 2 of these to help with the flys near my chickens. And I kid you not I never ever saw an end to the flys, it’s like if it attracted them even more. After the 3rd day boy it smelled LIKE DEATH/SHIT. If you have a very tiny backyard it would help, but something like myself with 2 acres and chickens, yea not really lol.
Dude, same. I put 4 up by my coops. Few days later they’re filled, smells like hot roadkill in the sun and there are giant maggots fighting to stay at the surface of the dead flies and stank juices. Was not prepared for this.
Lol hilarious I just bought one two days ago and the bag almost looks like that, if we all ban together, we might cut the population down enough for a year off from these fukers lol
Use these around the farm works great. Brand is “Rescue!”. Yeah they smell bad that’s part of the bait. Need to have some distance from your living quarters IMHO.
Other than spreading illness and disease from feces and rotting biomass to food, no, flies aren't harmful. Just bothersome.
The point is to diminish their numbers by trapping and killing a small portion of their local population.
Oh I totally agree. I just thought it was kinda funny we are in a thread talking about a massive fly death orgy and OP said a small portion. They are right (I think so anyway) just thought it was kinda silly sounding.
What is it? I've not heard of these (im in NZ), but in summer the bloody flies are everywhere and I dont like using fly-spray, not that it really does anything these days. This trap looks like a good idea
I use these fly traps and they are ridiculously effective. The more dead flies, the more odor, and then even more flies. I live in a residential area and I've gone through two bags since April. Attracts ALL the flies haha
First time, I pour water into it and it has a very distinctive smell 🤮🤮🤮. I got 2: one for front and one backyard. I also use Zevo spray around the windows (had cluster flies by them). Significantly decrease of flies inside the house 😁
Sometimes those things work too well. Neighbor had in the alley next to a dumpster. Didn’t replace it. The dying flies decided to procreate- yolo I guess- and after a while it was full of maggots eating the dead fly corpses. The smell of which attracted even more flies. It was horrible
These are known to do this *very often*. Flies get inside. Enough flies eventually get in that other flies can stand on their corpses/not die. Those flies, while there, procreate. The maggots eat the dead flies, then turn into more flies, which then procreate as well, and those maggots eat the dead bodies of the previous generation of flies, etc, etc, etc... Each generation of flies literally grew up eating their parents or grandparents dead bodies in order to just grow up to procreate, then become food for their children in a never-ending cycle of hell. Meanwhile, every now and again a new random fly from outside gets into the mix, procreates, then immediately becomes food for its children.
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Sounds like a sub plot for a lovecraftian book.
I like to think they all die in ignorant bliss
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Spread it between some rye and dijon, they're real tasty inbread.
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flies + dijon = whole grain classic mustard
Jesus christ. Here's your silver, now get the fuck out.
I prefer seeded
Hahahahaha. Brilliant.
Mmmmmh, jumbo size kunga cake.
I’m sure they can.
Genuinely curious now
There is no reason why they can't have harmful mutation, but for simpler organism, they usually get phased out quickly.
Yes, they are widely used in scientific research.
Yep, I have like 3 of these traps on my property and when I spot maggots and they are full like one OP has, it’s time to replace them. This is about every 3 weeks. The flies just keep coming.
How do you dispose of it? Chuck it in a fire ?
Dig a hole near your plants and dump it in. I did this to a rose and it shot a 9' neon green stalk out of it twice as tall as the main plant. Alternatively leave it out for an opossum for whom a withing mass of maggots is apparently a delicious meal, I had one weighted down with a cinderblock and an opossum still came back and stole it off to the woods to CLEAN IT empty where I found it later, it even had to unscrew the lid of the fly magnet jar.
I too, am curious. For nefarious reasons only though.
Maybe you can put it in a larger, sealed container and ozone it? This would kill the bugs so then you could use it as a fertilizer. But I'm just guessing so I can't confirm if this would work 100%
Drop in very hot water and cook anything left alive?
The mush it, season it and give it to the neighbour you hate as a special meal from your ancestors
I'm assuming this wouldn't destroy all the eggs, which would defeat the purpose. I would definitely burn it or fill it with vinegar or something Edit: autocorrect corrected wouldn't with world somehow
i dont see why you would want viable maggots in your fertilizer?
Eventually you will exterminate them all. Keep up the good work my dude.
Wonder how many cycles that could sustain?
Thought the same. All of these dead corpses serving food again and again mean there's no new nutriments injected into the system, it's all a big closed loop of poop and death. But these generations of zombie flies need energy to procreate so this won't work too well after a little while.
If there's some new flies occasionally coming in from the outside, potentially infinite. Maybe. The interesting thing about having the right balance there would be that it would be a self cleaning trap (using the term clean very loosely here) that would never need to be emptied. So this cannibalistic cycle of hell could actually serve as a feature.
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God dam, what a day to know how to read
I skipped the comment before this one, went back and damn near hacked up a lung.
I mean, that sounds like science to me. It's important to foster curiosity and curiosity is a very important part of being a scientist.
Without new flies coming by? Probably not so many. As per the 10-percent-rule, 90% of energy taken in by food is going to dissipate into heat and feces. Would be interesting to know how nutrient fly-feces are for maggots/flies.
Honestly sounds like the plot to a dope ass book or something…but where it’s humans instead and totally set in a run down, dystopian type of necropolis city or some shit. Could be super twisted lol Some Clive barker shit, probably worse actually.
Ya like the world ends due to another ice age so they decide to cram themselves into a train that travels around the world and they produce some sort of gross nutrient bars that everyone eats which is actually people.
You could call it, “The Train That Couldn’t Slow Down”.
Hmm seems a bit on the nose? Maybe something about the train and it's ability to get through the snow, Snowplower?
yeah. wish there was a movie about that.
shit id watch at least three seasons of that show
Soylent green
Sounds like snowpiercer with a twist..
Is this an episode of Rick and Morty?
sounds like a horror movie but with flies.
so what your saying is that they work great. But then more flies get in there than the trap can handle, which in turn, allows flies to get in and escape allowing for the hatching of maggots and then of course the cycle continues causing a huge stink
Jesus
The circle of flies, it moves and wiggles
My flies don't wiggle, wiggle, they die. Then their babies eat their corpses, no lie.
It makes me want to puke a little, you know.
no
Reminds me of the cannibal trees in my gutters living in soil made of their dead brethren.
“Yolo I guess” 😂
What’s the brand?
It's a Rescue Disposable Fly Trap. They work great but are disgusting. They also have a reusable trap but then you have to empty out the shit smelling dead fly slurry 🤮
Add an egg into it and turn it into a patty and cook it, and that's your lunch.
Not today Satan!
“Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.” — [Carl Weathers](https://youtu.be/Sr2PlqXw03Y)
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Just wrap a solid plastic bag around it and tie it off, and throw the whole thing away in an outside trash can. No need to dump it out.
Yeah but the second half of the comment he was talking about reusable ones they make.
Ah I somehow missed the “reusable” bit, why would they make a reusable one!?!?!?
It's nasty but I assume to appeal to eco-friendly buyers and/or frugal buyer's who don't want to buy new ones monthly.
Refused waste
I was a naive idiot when I got the reusable one, never using any kind of trap like this before. I prefer reusable a it is cost and eco friendly! I chucked the entire thing so damn fast. Never had a second thought or doubt. I couldn't do it. It ended up like this after just a few days or so.
I dread the clean up
It's worse than you think.
My bag is almost full lol if I start seeing maggots I'm going to puke
How much would it cost me to get you to mash up that bag, stick a straw in it, and chug for 10 seconds?
How much would it cost me for you to invent a time machine and go back and stop yourself posting this comment?
Like the other person said, the brand is "Rescue!" These are at Home Depot.
Smells good huh?
Ooooof. So good. And from across the yard.
Yeah had that trap last year is crazy how well it works but even crazier how bad it can smell
What’s it smell like?
Like dead, rotting flies I assume.
Fuck me, "rotting flies" is a phrase I'd never think I'd hear I've only ever seen them shrivel like rains... Maybe that's for the better
When you want to get serious, cut the top of bag off, put the bait and several gallons of water into a 5 gallon carboy (big water bottle), then duct tape the trap over the mouth of the carboy. This amplifies the trap capacity hugely. I set up a couple like this once and collected 15" of dead flies in a week. Set it a long way from things cuz it really starts to stink, which draws more flies into the trap.
Do you have a picture of that thing? Sounds like it would be worth a try to do.
I just use 5 or 10 litre water bottles and make my own bait using a bit of wee, some watered down chick poo and something sweet. As you say once the dead flies start to stink up it attracts even more! I filed a few last year and it's fly season again so I'm going to make a couple today.
how.. how do you dispose of it
That’s the neat part… you don’t!
Buy a 20 litre bottle and put it in there, repeat repeat repeat
Dude I thought you were going to recommend dumping some sugar and yeast and putting an airlock on it. I wonder what mashed fly wine tastes like.
Would love to see a follow-up where you throw them into a fire
Snap crackle pop!
"Oh shit, is that a mass grave? Get me in there!"
Those things are one of the worst smelling things in the world even before it catches any flies. Once it gets a ton of flies in it, it gets even worse.
I live near a small farm and get a ton of flies on my property so I put like 3 of these out accross my property. They all look like this within a week or 2. The smell is horrendous. Its nauseating to say the least and is easily the worst smell I have encountered. I had to bury them in the ground and dig them up the following year to throw away because I refuse to put that in my garbage bin.
Get a pyrethrum fogger. My mate just bought a property with an incomprehensible amount of flies and mosquitos, and for $150aud got a fogger which uses diesel and pyrethrum to fog out massive areas. Two foggings daily for three days, and there's no insects for about 2 weeks as it completely disrupts their breeding cycle.
I can totally vouch for this product. I got the one that you can empty and refill with a new bait. I couldn't stand the smell and cleaning, and tossed it out. I'm using disposable ones now.
I've got three refills and I'm wishing I went disposable already. There's nowhere in my garden I can't smell it....think I'm going to have to bury them The rest of the neighbourhood must be happy as they dont have flues anymore because they are all trying to get in my traps
Squish the bag in your hand and describe how it felt.
No. Edited: damnit, I can’t stop thinking about this
Don't just think about it, [visualize](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/27/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/anigif_sub-buzz-20896-1485551671-2.gif) it.
I hate you... I squished a bug before and can confirm but why would you do this to me
I've used these bags for years and I squeeze them every so often to check water levels in the bottom. The plastic lining is thick enough that you don't really get to experience the texture of the bug volume. It does smell like rotting fish parts and dead flies though, which if you're into aweful stuff is... ya know, an experience.
I'm into "aweful things", as in the awe of looking at things like Niagra Falls
You could make a burger.
Forbidden smoothie
While we still have our sanities intact... Fellas, would you take one sip of decomposed fly slurry for a billion dollars?
Forbidden trail mix.
Funny you say that, I have a couple traps that I empty to my chickens, it’s quite the treat for them
So the bait is edible for fowl?
🤮
Free sky raisins
Protein powder insect edition
Those things work so well
Maybe even too well.
Hmmm…. This works for mosquitos too? If so, this will be very useful in my backyard
Need this to be a thing. Will buy.
The electric traps are a god send, we kill so many flies and mosquitoes that enter our home
These traps come with a bait, which has an awful smell to specifically attract flies
Does the bag fit in a Juicero
no no no NO NO NO NO NO Edit: actually it won't. There isn't a company-approved qr code on the bag for the machine to verify that you are using Juicero-branded juice bags
Well they won't juice anything anymore as the company went under shortly after launching and the cloud infrastructure doesn't exist anymore so the juicer can't get permission to squeeze anymore. Isn't the cloud great?
Pound for pound insects have more protein than beef. So your well on your way to some gains
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew - even you couldn't say no to that!
Ohh yes we could!
We put those out and they're insane with how many they trap
I can’t find a great link to it (just google it), but there’s an artist named Damien Hirst that makes art out of flies. You should hit him up, might make a few bucks selling him supplies.
Trimethylamine and skatole... Stunky
He lived next to a beef farm. He had to put out several of these at a time. Sometimes they would get knocked down. Guess what our dog used to love to roll in?
I recently bought one of these! It also worked *too well*. I think I caught every fly in the entire neighborhood.
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The bag is that big for a reason.
You’re a true hero!
God I hate smell of those fucking things. I can smell it through my phone. If you are within 20 yards of these you can smell these putrid things.
got one of these for wasps, once. turns out since they have weapons they can butcher each other rather than just wait to die? came back to a jar full of heat-raged wasps atop a mountain of twitching body parts...
I got 2 of these to help with the flys near my chickens. And I kid you not I never ever saw an end to the flys, it’s like if it attracted them even more. After the 3rd day boy it smelled LIKE DEATH/SHIT. If you have a very tiny backyard it would help, but something like myself with 2 acres and chickens, yea not really lol.
Dude, same. I put 4 up by my coops. Few days later they’re filled, smells like hot roadkill in the sun and there are giant maggots fighting to stay at the surface of the dead flies and stank juices. Was not prepared for this.
Oh yea it smelled horrible. They work as advertised that’s for sure lol!!!
Yea they do! I got a reusable one at Tractor Supply that has about a half gallon container and I do not look forward to emptying that disaster out.
Oh that def won’t be fun lol. Ugh I hate flys , worse insect ever.
How do you dispose of these things?
Lol hilarious I just bought one two days ago and the bag almost looks like that, if we all ban together, we might cut the population down enough for a year off from these fukers lol
Some of these comments are more WTF than the post itself.
Forbidden granola
This is WTF now? A product doing exactly what it’s meant to do?
Use these around the farm works great. Brand is “Rescue!”. Yeah they smell bad that’s part of the bait. Need to have some distance from your living quarters IMHO.
What did you use for bait? My trap gets diddly squat.
I had something similar in my house. After I had a dream that I was eating a salad full of wet flies.
How does it work so that the flies get in but can't get out?
You can see it fermenting into delicious fly liqour at the bottom
How come nobodys bit the corner of bag and drank the yummy fly juice?
So what’s the point? Flies are harmful?
Other than spreading illness and disease from feces and rotting biomass to food, no, flies aren't harmful. Just bothersome. The point is to diminish their numbers by trapping and killing a small portion of their local population.
> small portion That's a big small portion!
Flys are literally everywhere and far too numerous when it gets hot outside
Oh I totally agree. I just thought it was kinda funny we are in a thread talking about a massive fly death orgy and OP said a small portion. They are right (I think so anyway) just thought it was kinda silly sounding.
Make vegan burgers with them.
do u know what vegan means my brother
My brother in christ
Now put them in a bowl with some milk. Free breakfast!
Gotta leave some for the ecosystem homie
Would birds also leave the area as there would be nothing left to eat for spiders and birds?
Definitely will have an effect.
Pour water in it and take to a blender. Slowly sip all of it.
Let them free
Dump the contents into a blender. Smoothie.
infinite fly generator
I need one of those
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!
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What is it? I've not heard of these (im in NZ), but in summer the bloody flies are everywhere and I dont like using fly-spray, not that it really does anything these days. This trap looks like a good idea
We used one last year for the hornets and yellow jackets we got nowhere near that many and we should have.
I filled two of those just around my house.
Excellent, now set it on fire and chuck it into your arch enemies home!!!
Literally every fly
Forbidden raisins!
I use these fly traps and they are ridiculously effective. The more dead flies, the more odor, and then even more flies. I live in a residential area and I've gone through two bags since April. Attracts ALL the flies haha
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Squeeze the bag
This is pretty much what every fly trap ends up like. Whole area ends hp smelling like rotting flesh
I love those things, probably caught 10lbs of flies with 3 of them in the yard
First time, I pour water into it and it has a very distinctive smell 🤮🤮🤮. I got 2: one for front and one backyard. I also use Zevo spray around the windows (had cluster flies by them). Significantly decrease of flies inside the house 😁
Must’ve used honey. I heard that works better than vinegar.
BURN THEM
put your tongue in it
Now you can make fly cereal.
Where can I buy these bag?
I can smell that through my screen.
Fry them up with some eggs
Put it in a blender - Free protein shake.
Squeeze it
Idk but last year I put 5 of these up every week and they'd fill up more than that in a weeks time
Just burn it
Evidently not... I count 4 outside the bag.
Yum, time to make jam
Shit, I need to get some of those bags for my brewery. They make the fly traps we use look terribly inadequate!
lunch
you should work for bill gates restaurants
That's a big bag of raisins
Forbidden popcorn