Fly Traps

I saw this fly trap sitting in a friends stable yard and had to take pictures.

Its a build-it-yourself model made of a strip of a heavy duty durable metal screen for the side and regular metal window screen for the lid and internal cone.

This friend has one trap for each horse on the property and they do a great job of controlling flies.

This model is riveted together and has an aluminum band on the top and simple aluminum legs that are screwed to the base.

There is a plastic bowl in the bottom that is used to hold attractant, and the flies go from the attractant up into the cone and the top of the trap. After the trap starts filling up, the dead flies attract more flies.

The trap is emptied by unscrewing the base and pulling the edge of the cone with a hook to dump the flies out the bottom, or the lid can be made so that it can be removed for emptying.