Trap Catches Flies By The Thousands

Trap Catches Flies By The Thousands MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 23-3-20 New Zealand farmer Donald Temple-Cox discovered the key component to his flytrap one day when having a beer at the end of a long day. It suddenly hit him that he could use the empty can to create the perfect one-way entry into his trap. He punched holes around the outer circumference of each end of a bunch of cans and covered up the drinking hole. Then he cut holes in the sides of a plastic bucket and stuck the empty cans into the holes. He puts rotten fish - or some other equally fragrant bait - into the bucket and puts a clear plastic cover on top. Flies are attracted by the scent and head for the clear top. They find their way inside through the holes in the cans but then can't find their way out. The buckets literally fill up with thousands of flies. The trick is finding a place to put the trap where the smell will not bother people. The trap worked so well Cox patented it. At a recent show he had interest from fish farmers who were interested in the trap as a way to feed fish. Production models have specially molded plastic ports fashioned after the beer cans. Cox makes traps that range in size from 2 1/2 gal. up to 50 gal. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Donald Temple-Cox, Awakau Rd Mokau, Taranaki, New Zealand. Reprinted courtesy Farm Equipment News, Auckland, New Zealand

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