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Taco de Baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Tomas Tierra
What about hanging plastic bags full of water around...have seen that before, whats it all about?? |
Bee careful about hanging water around. 
Last year our camp on the beach was over run with bees. They were really bad in the mornings sucking the dew off all surfaces. In teh afternoon they
liked flying into open beer and soda cans, open water bottles, anything liquid...
Everyone got stung several times.....
[Edited on 8-7-2006 by Taco de Baja]
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FARASHA
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my dad used to say " you kill one fly, hundreds will come for the funeral"
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Mexitron
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When I was at Abreojos in 1998--the El Nino year--the warmer weather had made the flies and no see-ums really bad...but also visiting that year was a
whitish bird that looked like a miniature duck with a sandpiper beak; all it did all day long was walk up and down the beach eating flies. Never
seen one since, anybody know what they are? Pretty convenient! Friendly little bird too.
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cathart
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A friend of mine does hang water bags--not open ones, but closed bags, over the door--and guess what--no flies! Just water bags, suspended by a
string! I have no idea why it works, but it seems to.
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Mexray
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Tried the 'water bag' thing...
...didn't work! No difference, and I left em' hang for a couple of weeks!
ON the other hand, I bought along on our last trip this spring, one of those 'Fly Traps', the kind that's a plastic bag with the 'trap' part at the
top - the flies crawl in, but can't figure out how to get out! It comes with some powder in the bag, and you just add water to activate - WOW, the
resulting 'concoction smells nasty, and the flies love it!
Now there is the on-going argument about these 'traps'...do they get rid of flies that would normally be hanging around - or do they just work so well
that they attract zillions more flies from the neighborhood that still get in your stuff on the way to the trap?
We hung ours on the back of our palapa to try and get them to congregate there...seemed to work, and that trap was stuffed with zillions of those
critters in a couple of days! The trap seemed to also attract a 'larger' variety of fly than we usually noticed hanging around...
We bought our traps up here at a Lowe's.
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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