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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fly Prevention
  • Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 10:57:13 -0400

On Fri, 1 May 2009 12:28:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>There's an eco-friendly restaurant nearby that swears by hanging a zip-type
>baggie half full of water over every entrance into the building.  He said it
>has cut his fly problems by 90%.
>

This is *very* interesting. We saw this on television - a Rick Steves PBS
program. He does European travel programs (and writes guidebooks).

He was in a city in Spain (I can't remember which city) walking through a
quaint old neighborhood with a local friend.

They saw hanging plastic bags of water in a courtyard; the local told him
it was to keep away flies and that many people there do this. He asked the
lady who lived in that house if it worked: she said it did work for her.

I cannot think of any reason WHY it should work, but if several people say
that it works, I think it would certainly be worth a try.

Cheers,
Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html

The world has enough for everyone's need,
but not enough for everyone's greed.

Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.






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