Fly Control: Forget Black Powder, Use Flypaper and Eliminate Breeding Sites

Eliminate breeding: Clean up dog/cat waste, compost, garbage.
Indoors: Flypaper at sunny window (works like 100 years ago).
Old-school: Potato + adhesive toothpicks = "Sputnik" trap.

Black powder + water = myth (fly explodes at light bulb? No).

What Works

Pyrethrin only works in closed rooms, no residual.

Fly-powered airplane kits exist. Seriously.

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