Gotcha! (The great escape)
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
July 12, 2017 6:03am CST
It rained this afternoon. Not so strong, just light rain. I went out to the veranda to take a shot of the gloomy skies and the rain but then, something caught my eye.
There is a plastic net covering the orchids, and I noticed these 2 big houseflies caught in the net. Maybe they thought they can squeeze in their bodies through the holes but they were not able to pass through.
They thought it was their great escape but... Gotcha!
How can you catch a fly?
How can you catch a fly? 17 people like this
14 responses
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
14 Jul 17
@ridingbet Yes, then it is difficult to shoo them off too.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
and it is really disgusting to see flies landing on our food on the table, and yuck, they are dirty insects. eewww!
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@LadyDuck (502316)
• Italy
14 Jul 17
@ridingbet Oh goodness, this is horrible, we have no mice around.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
15 Jul 17
@LadyDuck yes, it is better that our house and surroundings should be mice-free.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
12 Jul 17
Good that the net saved the orchids from them @ridingbet ! I don't know how you catch a fly, but I use a fly swatter and smack them silly! :)
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
14 Jul 17
@ridingbet haha, just like me, running after the pests! Blue is my favourite colour ;)
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
15 Jul 17
@bluesa really? you are at peace with everybody. mine is red, flaming red. i am a passionate person and i love wholeheartedly but when i am abused, i tend to forget the existence of that person causing me heartache.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
yes, my friend. we have this blue fly swatter and i would run after the fly when it buzzes around the house.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
15 Jul 17
Ha ha the trap works.
I have observed lots of houseflies now and its hard to eradicate them.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
16 Jul 17
yes kabsat, especially now that it is the rainy season again. flies and mosquitoes are breeding again.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Jul 17
@ilocosboy true, dengue and lepspirosis are the most common diseases during summer time.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
16 Jul 17
@ridingbet dengue and chikungunya is becoming a prevalent in our place again. We need to do the 4 o clock habit again to avoid this dreaded diseases from aedes aegepti mosquito.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
right on that. i also dislike these big flies that buzz around when flying low or high.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
14 Jul 17
ya got plastic coverin' yer orchids? most interestin'. i'm a tad more cruel 'n trap'n 'em with those sticky traps :( particularly out where the horses reside. i've not that many troubles with 'em here't the house 's i've herbs to keep 'em 't bay.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
oh yes, there are some flypaper sheets sold here, but our house is not fly-stricken anyway so, we can just kill a fly using the fly swatter.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
12 Jul 17
Good that the net saved the orchids from them @ridingbet ! I don't know how you catch a fly, but I use a fly swatter and smack them silly! :)
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
yes, it works, and the net that caught the 2 flies is outside our house, in the veranda. right now, there are 3 more and it is a 'gotcha' thingy again.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
good it is raining there, it cools the hot climate. here, as usual, so hot, but thunderstorms come every late afternoons.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
12 Jul 17
I swear, houseflies just end up anywhere. I have seen them in the most peculiar places. At least they were caught before they could pester!
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
as for us, we don't catch them anymore but kill them with the fly swatter, a rolled magazine, a flypaper, or any other thing that can kill them. hahaha!
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Jul 17
@DesirousDreamer really? then those flies will enjoy your place because you are sympathetic of them. just kidding.
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
16 Jul 17
@ridingbet I'm not a big fan of hitting things. I try to let things outside if I can. I know it is easier killing, but I have like a weird fear of things getting smashed haha
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
wow, that is so nice to know that flies don't go near your house.
@manikarnika (3301)
• India
12 Jul 17
Yeah...Here too in Rainy Days, we can't see House fly anywhere outside.But it is really strange
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
even when it rains, mosquitoes thrive as well, that is why there are certain diseases caused by flies, mosquitoes, and rats.
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@shikharava (1838)
•
12 Jul 17
Ha ha! Some little flies they were. Oh no, not little, they couldn't squeeze through, right?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jul 17
heheh! if those flies were little or small, they can easily squeeze in and fly out, but those 2 flies are big.
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