When I was a kid. Great fun chasing them around with the fly swatter.
I do too. If one's in the house, all activity ceases until it's gone. Here's one way to take care of them if you have severe problems.
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Do you hate houseflies?
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They were used on uninvited insects and disobedient children. Swats were administered on the backs of legs. We learned to wear jeans when we felt like being bad. 
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Not to rain on the gentleman's parade, but it is a distinct possibility that the sugar/water mixture will attract ants.
Angeline
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You may be right. Especially if it leaks. The same goes for Japanese Beetle traps....not that they attract other insects but we found that putting them up just attracts them from the neighbors yard into your own. So, the trick is to give the traps to your neighbors as free gifts. 
You probably remember fly paper strips in restaurants and diners hanging from the ceiling. How appetizing! 
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We also had problems with hummingbird feeders.
The ants traveled to them, and wasps hung around them.
My husband did defeat the ants by covering the hanger with sticky tape.
Angeline
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That was an Interesting Article...
I wonder what they do with all those captured flies, or did I miss something.
I use a rolled up newspaper and whack them one at a time. Works good except when they land on somebody's head or the wifes knicknacks.
Reminds me of this little joke about flies.
Two Flies buzzing around the house landed on the kitchen table. One said to the other, Hey Mable, wheres Zeke?. Don't know, haven't seen him. Pretty soon Zeke buzzes in and crashes on the table, huffing and puffing. Good Grief Zeke, said Mable, what ever happen to you? Oh my, gasped Zeke, I was in the bathroom and landed in the hopper for a drink. All of sudden this big cloud came over. It started thundering like mad and then the rains came. Wow, did it ever pour, and if somebody didn't throw that log in, I would have drowned for sure.
Well, anyway...........
A flea and a fly in a flue
were imprisoned so what could they do?
Said the flea "let us fly"
Said the fly "let us flee"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Geo.
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(I had to wait until I stopped laughing to reply.)
As far as what is done with those flies the guy killed, what is in the huge plastic bag he is dumping out at the end of the video ?
A rolled up newspaper is a reliable stand by. But sometimes it leaves some specks.
Thanks for the hearty chuckles!
Angeline
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Yes, that huge plastic bag is what I was wondering about. If those are flies in there, I would hope they are dead. And what would they be used for?
Geo.
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to make flypaper?
To catch honey?
To feed his venus flytrap?
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