Brilio.net - The presence of flies in the house is an annoying problem. How could it not be, flies are bacteria-carrying insects that often land on food. Well, food that is infested with flies often becomes contaminated, making it unfit for consumption. To overcome this, a number of people usually install special tools to catch flies.
However, there are also fly traps made from glue and sold freely on the market. Apart from buying traps, you can also make your own fly traps which are more economical and practical, you know.
A woman using Instagram @diidii_winfleur once shared a trick for making a powerful fly trap without any hassle. Instead of using glue, paper or other special tools, he instead relies on ingredients found in the kitchen. Well, this kitchen ingredient can be effective in trapping flies and not entering the house again, you know.
Reported by BrilioFood from the Instagram account @diidii_winfleur on Thursday (13/6), the kitchen ingredients in question are granulated sugar and kitchen vinegar. Well, sugar has a sweet aroma that can attract flies. Meanwhile, kitchen vinegar is acidic which can prevent flies from flying and actually die.
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However, so that these two ingredients can work optimally, he uses other ingredients such as water and dish soap. For more details, prepare a bowl. Then add 5 tablespoons of sugar and 3 tablespoons of vinegar.
Next, add enough water and dish soap. Stir until all ingredients are evenly mixed and foamy. After that, this fly trap is ready to use.
photo: Instagram/@diidii_winfleur
In the video, Instagram user @diidii_winfleur places a fly trap in front of the door of the house. This is so that flies that want to enter the house are attracted to the trap and fall into the trap. Sure enough, after leaving it for 3 hours, the container containing the mixture of kitchen ingredients was already filled with flies. There are even other insects that enter, such as grasshoppers and ants.
photo: Instagram/@diidii_winfleur
As previously explained, the sweet aroma of sugar can attract flies. But on the other hand, vinegar and dish soap can also trap flies. These two ingredients can be effective traps. Flies are attracted by the smell of vinegar, so they will come closer to land on the surface of the liquid. Because dish soap reduces surface tension, flies cannot escape and end up drowning in the liquid.
Since it was uploaded on Monday (9/6), this video about tricks for making fly traps has been watched more than 26 thousand times. Who would have thought, this upload then attracted the attention of many netizens on Instagram. Some of them even responded directly in the comments column.
"Can't fruit flies use this? Eh, but the ants come too, isn't it sweet?" asked the Instagram account @nanda_rully.
"You can do it, sis. You just need to fish it with pieces of fruit, sis, put it in it. It's sweet, bro, using sugar," replied Instagram user @diidii_winfleur.
"Okay, thank you," commented the Instagram account @raniyulinuraeni.
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