I have found an awesome way to combat the moths and destroy them sonofaguns, without squishing them.
I have an extra can of “Dust Off” laying around, and when you turn it upside down, it sprays out a liquid propellant that causes instant frostbite on skin, and in the case of those miniscule moths, instant death.
So far, I’ve got 2 of the buggers, and I couldn’t be happier. They just plop onto the table and I can sweep them into the garbage!!!
What happens when they thaw? Do they revive and fly away?
I’ve been on a house fly hunting mission. For some reason there are suddenly a bunch of flys flying around. I’ve never had any flys here before. I don’t know why they suddenly showed up. Maybe a mouse died in the wall. I’ve been getting about 5 to 10 flys a day for the last 3 days. I put up a fly strip in the window this morning and there are 6 of the little buggers stuck to it right now. The others have met their end from the fly swatter.
What if you hit a masquito and preserve it and a gamillion years from now thhey dig it up and clone the blood and they get a gazzilion erics runing around eating people?!
A few years ago, I used my one-million-candle-power spotlight to shoot down a moth. It started flying erratically and sputtering and it fell to the ground. I know they like light, but I guess that was too much. I don’t remember if it recovered. Maybe it died (of light) and I blocked the memory. I don’t like killing things.
I’ve heard about freezing bugs with that stuff…I hear you can spray a bug with it, and it freezes it, and when it thaws out it comes back to life. that would be so flippin sweet.
o man those things are great, my friend brought one back from china, so it has no safety features, you could probably kill small animals with the thing.
The office at work has recently been under invasion by flies; for the last few weeks the place has been literally crawling in them, buzzing around the window and (most annoyingly) rattling around the light fittings.
The strange thing is they are extremely docile; if they are walking around on the desk you can flick them away and they will just get up and keep walking again. This makes them very easy targets… a huge number of them have wound up between a book* and a hard place and loads more evidently died of natural causes.
They fumigated the place last weekend; since then I have seen one, but I suspect that flew in through an open window, so doesn’t count.
Phil
the Intel 186 Programmer’s Reference Manual. Great book - enough weight for an instant kill, but slim enough to be streamlined and manouvreable.
one time, there was this HUGE hobo spider in my basement, it was soo scary…so I took a big book off the bookshelf, flicked the huge spider into it, and SLAM!
…then I put the book back on the shelf…I don’t think anyone’s found it yet.
If you freeze-stun a fly (using electrical component freezer spray, for example) then stick it in the freezer it goes into ‘stasis’ and if you take it out days later & let it thaw then it comes back to life! This makes for excellent games whereby you freeze one, superglue it to a piece of black cotton then take it for walks. Or superglue 2 together with a short (<20cm) piece of thin cotton, and watch them got psyko nuts.
Loose.
EDIT: Just realised James Potter mentioned something similar, so props to him for mentioning it first.
In the summer, I catch bees in tupperware and throw them in the freezerfor 5 minutes or so, untill they stop moving. Then, I pull them out and tie floss around them, leaving about 4 or 5 feet for a leash.
When I take them into the sun they wake up and I fly them like a kite! However, I once got stung 3 times in a day, all on my right hand. It got owned.