Flypaper

A flycatcher (also: flypaper or honey strips ) is an old home remedy to get rid of in living spaces annoying houseflies. Today's use of a cardboard strip in a cardboard tube based on an invention from the year 1909.

Components

The flycatcher consists of an approximately 50 cm long and 5 cm wide strips of cardboard, which is coated with Fliegenleim. New traps are commercially found in small cardboard sleeves with rolled cardboard strips therein. The goods is usually always at a tack for attaching to the ceiling.

In stores also much larger versions are offered, which are intended for example for use in animal stables.

Functioning and operation of

The flycatcher is usually attached to the ceiling of a room. Here, it may be easier fastening means of the enclosed tack, afterwards the gentle pulling down the Pappzylinders same while rotating, thus unwinding the cardboard strip.

After hanging up, there are more or less quickly the loszuwerdenden houseflies on the cardboard strip. Since the applied Fliegenleim is very strong sticky, it is not possible the insects to move away from the trap, and they die there. The glue can be made of various materials, usual compositions from natural resins, honey, water, rosin and attractants that will attract the flies.

Because of the way flycatchers are not likely to make a room in no time flying freely in contrast to insecticides. Rather, the user has to rely on that the pests are attracted by the pheromones to the wetted Fliegenleim cardboard strips and this fly. Until a noticeable effect occurs, usually takes several days.

History

1910 Flypaper under the brand name Aeroplan was first registered in Switzerland for a patent, but had to be abandoned due to objections from the aircraft manufacturing and the toy industry. 1911 they decided on the new name Aeroxon.

Others

In football jargon, the term " flypaper " for goalkeepers used to estimate the trajectory of the ball often wrong and often miss him to.