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From: Spehro Pefhany on 26 Apr 2010 07:26 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:34:46 -0400, the renowned JW <none(a)dev.null> wrote: >On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:42:43 -0700 Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in Message id: ><5kv8t5t1olbu8avqhonkdtrn15atkduils(a)4ax.com>: > >>This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here >>in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up. >> >>They're even getting into the house. >> >>Any convenient solutions? >> >> ...Jim Thompson > >Fill a bowl with some vinegar. Cover it with plastic wrap and poke lots of >holes in it that are just big enough for them to enter. Gnats are >attracted to vinegar and will find their way in, then die. Dish soap and water will work too. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff(a)interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
From: ian field on 26 Apr 2010 09:24 "PeterD" <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote in message news:2db9t557ecch4jud76kaga36abtq4iqppk(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:26:25 +0100, "ian field" > <gangprobing.alien(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> >>"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote >>in >>message news:5kv8t5t1olbu8avqhonkdtrn15atkduils(a)4ax.com... >>> This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here >>> in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up. >>> >>> They're even getting into the house. >>> >>> Any convenient solutions? >> >>If a swarm forms indoors, suck them up with a dust buster vacuum cleaner - >>squirt some fly spray into the nozzle before switching off, > > Do NOT do that! Some vacuums use the air from the vacuum outlet to > cool the motor, and the motor has exposed brushes. The fact that 'fly > spray' is usually flammable, and brushes spark, will help prove the > big bang theory quite effectively! What a complete and utter load of bollox! A year or two ago some nut posted vids of his antics when he had a pile of old vacuum cleaners to play with, he set one up on a table in his back garden, switched it on and stuffed the hose into a bucket of petrol. Sure enough the sparks from the brushes ignited the fumes and the vacuum cleaner did a fair impersonation of a jet engine with a lick of flame out the end, it kept going quite a long time before the bearings siezed and the motor whent phut. I have a small mains powered (220V) handheld vacuum cleaner that I used to catch wasps, moths and other flying insects, and I always gave it a squirt of fly spray, that never once ignited and even if it did it wouldn't do any more than singe any accumulated fluff.
From: Spehro Pefhany on 26 Apr 2010 10:03 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:26:55 -0400, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP(a)interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: >On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:34:46 -0400, the renowned JW <none(a)dev.null> >wrote: > >>On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:42:43 -0700 Jim Thompson >><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in Message id: >><5kv8t5t1olbu8avqhonkdtrn15atkduils(a)4ax.com>: >> >>>This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here >>>in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up. >>> >>>They're even getting into the house. >>> >>>Any convenient solutions? >>> >>> ...Jim Thompson >> >>Fill a bowl with some vinegar. Cover it with plastic wrap and poke lots of >>holes in it that are just big enough for them to enter. Gnats are >>attracted to vinegar and will find their way in, then die. > >Dish soap and water will work too. Oh, you have to put a bit of ripe banana peel in there too.
From: Oppie on 26 Apr 2010 10:28 "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message news:5kv8t5t1olbu8avqhonkdtrn15atkduils(a)4ax.com... > This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here > in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up. > > They're even getting into the house. > > Any convenient solutions? Is there much of a bat population there? Don't know how well they do with gnats but with moths and mosquitoes they are rather effective.
From: JW on 26 Apr 2010 10:52
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:03:09 -0400 Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP(a)interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in Message id: <v67bt5p5mctilvrq8vc621vibbskivlji4(a)4ax.com>: >On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:26:55 -0400, Spehro Pefhany ><speffSNIP(a)interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: > >>On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:34:46 -0400, the renowned JW <none(a)dev.null> >>wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:42:43 -0700 Jim Thompson >>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in Message id: >>><5kv8t5t1olbu8avqhonkdtrn15atkduils(a)4ax.com>: >>> >>>>This wet (and cold) winter, due to global warming ;-) has left us here >>>>in AZ over-run with gnats as the weather warms up. >>>> >>>>They're even getting into the house. >>>> >>>>Any convenient solutions? >>>> >>>> ...Jim Thompson >>> >>>Fill a bowl with some vinegar. Cover it with plastic wrap and poke lots of >>>holes in it that are just big enough for them to enter. Gnats are >>>attracted to vinegar and will find their way in, then die. >> >>Dish soap and water will work too. > >Oh, you have to put a bit of ripe banana peel in there too. Would probably be good for catching fruit flies as well. |