Comments on: Why Flies are So Hard to Swat

By: Sid Innovations

Sid Innovations — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:04:15 +0000

You can easily kill fly with Fly Swatter pro. This new swatter is base on a study of a horses tail but it kill fly instead of shoo it away.This is much better then the old fancy kind that the professor was using. There is a web site if you search for Fly Swatter pro try one for yourself.

By: Jon Dyer

Jon Dyer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:21:48 +0000

The best way that I've found to swat a fly is to wait until it lands and put your hands about eight inches apart above and behind the fly. When you clap your hands together, the fly will be between them.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:22:58 +0000

The NONPAREIL answer to successfully swatting flies, and fun, too: The Flyshooter. Google it.

By: Justin E

Justin E — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:43:23 +0000

I agree with Johnny except I don't go 3 inches above.
I work in a bakery and the sugar atrracts flies through the pick-up window. I squashe dthree flies with my bare hands yesterday. (and then I washed my hands)

P.S. I was sitting down and I looked at the comment box from a steep angle. There's a Neatorama astronaut telling you to be nice only visible from this angle. Has anyone seen this?

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:55:47 +0000

Flies are extremely easy to kill if you blind them with a laser pointer for a few seconds before trying to swat them...

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:49:07 +0000

I've been Obama-rolled! The article was about flies but the video (that auto-started, btw) was an Obama speech. It's Obama 24/7 EVERYWHERE. I wish I could have seen the fly video, though.

By: Polx

Polx — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:44:20 +0000

I had assumed that it was the olume of air that you were moving in front of your swatter acted as a wave upon which the fly "surfed" away.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:09:22 +0000

anyone who ever had plucked flies wings know how high they can jump.

(yes, kids can be cruel in a boring musical or german class... I don't put that on my resume

By: Peeves

Peeves — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:36:13 +0000

I always figured if was because they were super sensitive to disturbances in the air when you move towards them. Wow.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:41:15 +0000

Awesome stuff, to be sure, especially that backward flip move they tend to do. But if you hold your palms vertically at about a foot apart, then surround the airspace about 3 inches above the fly, all you need to do is clap, and around 50% of the time you'll get it.

I think I might have learned this trick from Neatorama.