Fly strips
Fly strips
What is that horribly sticky stuff they use on the fly strips that uncoil from a tube?
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Re: Fly strips
I don't know what all the ingredients are but I'm fairly certain sugar is high on the list.
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Re: Fly strips
Apparently (I don't use the things) some (maybe most or all - no-one's saying) flypaper adhesives are based on rosin or sugar. The last one makes for some very creative ideas for cake baking (and I bet you really believed that they were currants).
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Re: Fly strips
I thought there might be a film or some pictures, the title 'Fly Strips', got me intrigued
Re: Fly strips
I think it must be rosin they're using in the ones I've got. I was thinking of making some myself but with more surface area to increase the chances of flies flying into it.
Re: Fly strips
I don't think it's a case of flies flying into it, more a case of them being attracted to it by the sugar content.
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Re: Fly strips
No it would be X rated and us Mods would have to censor it.diggernotdreamer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:56 pm I thought there might be a film or some pictures, the title 'Fly Strips', got me intrigued
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Re: Fly strips
Not these days, at least not in Oz, though in the past they did contain arsenic.
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