I don't like swatting flies. If I hit them, they leave a messy mess that has to be cleaned up. Consequently, I quite often miss them. I am sure this is subconscious so there won't be a mess. I try to hit them lightly, so as to cripple them, then I can pick them up and drown them in the sink. No mess.
So, just now, there was a gigantic fly, gigantic as flies go and he buzzed me a couple of times. As luck would have it, there was the fly swatter, right in front of me. Mr. Fly landed on the rim of a plastic container. Boy, if I were going to get this one, I would have to swat hard. I swatted. I got him. No mess. I hit him so hard on the rim of that container that it cut him in half. The container flew to the floor. Mr. Fly, in two pieces was still on the table and I picked up both pieces and put them in the sink. Insurance that he was really dead. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Excellent Dead On hit Wilma. I appreciate fly swatting as it used to be my job on those hot summer nights when we all set out on the porch until bed time and drank lemonade.
Hum!!!! Dead eyed Wilma. A dangerous person to be sure. Stay out of the way of her fly swatter that she always has around her. You could be next.
A grandson of mine catches them with his hand. Very seldom misses.
And then what does he do with them? :D
Do you suppose he crushes them? Ugh!!! :o :o :o
NO, you just pull their heads off.
Puts them in a mason jar with a lid. Maybe saves them for a snack. :laugh: ;D
HA HA HA HA HA HA How funny !!! I catch them also -- and until you have tried them for a snack --- don't knock it.
Just kidding of course ----- The flies have been terrible the past month or so --- we have swatters everywhere -- in the truck -- on the bench at the picnic table -- in the house and even in the boat. But---- I swat them and DO NOT PICK UP THE GOOSHIE THINGS -- Just get a paper towel and dispose of the nasty things...when I catch one-- it is to the wash bowl I go -- soap and water - can't stand the germs from touching them.
Ha, ha! I had a junior high science teacher who told us he would catch them live and put them in the fridge. Then he'd (GENTLY) tie a string around their head/body (?) and when they'd warm up, he'd hold on to the end of the string and they'd fly in circles. (But I was pretty gullible when I was in jr high, so who knows if this is true!)
The best one to catch and tie a string around their necks are the Locust, with all the noise they make it is great fun. Blow flies work also.
Army Mom
Big iridescent beetles make great "airplanes" too.
This is really terrible, but here goes, anyway~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``
We used to catch horseflys and stick a straw up their butt and let them go and they would just go completely goofy -- trying to get away from the straw.
We didn't have too many toys in those days hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
This is what is terrible.
I visited an older cousin on a farm near Moran, Kansas, in the early fifties.
He carried a .22 rifle and we went for walk in the pasture prior to getting the cows. We came upon a pond and he caught a small frog. He stuck a hollow straw in the same place on the frog and then blew into the straw as hard as he could. The frog's insides were probably instantly burst and the frog became a small balloon. If that was not enough, he threw the frog out on the water and fired several shots at it with the .22, eventually hitting it.
I was stunned to say the least. After I declined to participate, we went on after the cows.
Jo, We used to catch horse flies also but used a feather instead of a straw, so when they flew the feather made them do a lot of fancy flying. Oh what fun we had growing up.
That would get us expelled from school in this day and age, that is, if---we tried to demonstrate it to another student while on the premises.
And yes--- my memories of growing up are happy ones. But come to think of it, Maybe I never did grow UP -- just grew older. :o