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ChinMusic
02-03-2008, 15:15
Anyone hang a baggy half full of water over the opening of a shelter to keep flies out?
Saw this at a restaurant in Indiana......
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b186/ChinMusicIHSS/Backpacking/Pate2006/Pate3.jpg
Would that be known at "fly baggin"? :confused::D
shelterbuilder
02-03-2008, 15:45
It keeps flies out...
HOW????
Hikes in Rain
02-03-2008, 15:45
Looks like a practical joke in the making....
kayak karl
02-03-2008, 15:47
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf851815.tip.html
i like these ideas, but how to use them in maine this june:-?
shelterbuilder
02-03-2008, 16:05
So now I guess that we'll be seeing little zip-loc bags half-full of water hanging at all of the AT shelters this year???:-? It might be a welcome change from all of the tin-can-and-string "hiker art"!:eek:
So now I guess that we'll be seeing little zip-loc bags half-full of water hanging at all of the AT shelters this year???:-? It might be a welcome change from all of the tin-can-and-string "hiker art"!:eek:
Those tin cans are 100% useless.
Kirby
Lone Wolf
02-03-2008, 16:54
why the ***** would you wanna sleep in a shelter?
why the ***** would you wanna sleep in a shelter?
To stay up late giggling and playing games like your at a sleepover party
shelterbuilder
02-03-2008, 16:58
why the ***** would you wanna sleep in a shelter?
...didn't SAY I wanted to...there you go, assuming again!
Lone Wolf
02-03-2008, 17:02
...didn't SAY I wanted to...there you go, assuming again!
wasn't talkin to you. don't assume
Pedaling Fool
02-03-2008, 17:07
They use them in stables. I hung a few in my uncles stables last year and before long it was overflowing with flies. There's an attractant (really stinky) that when mixed with water attracts flies.
http://www.become.com/fly-bag-trap--fly-trap--208814844--586179812
shelterbuilder
02-03-2008, 17:14
They use them in stables. I hung a few in my uncles stables last year and before long it was overflowing with flies. There's an attractant (really stinky) that when mixed with water attracts flies.
http://www.become.com/fly-bag-trap--fly-trap--208814844--586179812
I use these in my dog kennels...at the FAR end. You hang one of these in a shelter, and Lone Wolf will get his wish - NO ONE will sleep in the shelter! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
sheepdog
02-03-2008, 17:48
Would this attractant be any stinkier than your average hiker. If not it won't work.
Blissful
02-03-2008, 17:50
Bugs are everywhere. If you don't want bugs, sleep in a tent.
shelterbuilder
02-03-2008, 17:52
Would this attractant be any stinkier than your average hiker. If not it won't work.
:eek: :eek: YES! :eek: :eek:
kayak karl
02-03-2008, 17:54
To stay up late giggling and playing games like your at a sleepover party
that's a reason not to. other then hurricane, whats a reason to sleep in one?
Bare Bear
02-05-2008, 19:30
The attractant is a smell of dead rotting meat. They have a lot of them in CA. I think the flies are no worse than the dead decaying meat smell that attracts them to the bag to drown.