Homemade fly catcher

A few years ago I read in an Amish cookbook how to make your own fly catchers. Anyone who has animals knows that the flys are bad with animals.

These fly catchers work very well and are much cheaper than buying the fly catchers from the farm supply stores.

Here is how they are made.

1- empty 2 litre pop bottle

1- banana peel

1- cup sugar

1- cup cider vinegar

Place the banana peel into the empty 2 litre pop bottle. Using a funnel, add sugar and vinegar. Fill with warm water to where the neck of bottle begins to narrow. Place cap on bottle and shake to dissolve sugar. Hang with a wire around the neck of the bottle in trees around your place. The bottles will fill with flys about 4 inches thick, then sink, then fill again. When the bottle is filled with flys, replace the cap, take down from tree and discard.

The fly catcher pictured above was just hung up today, it looks like there are already flys in it. They fill up incredibly fast. We make them all summer long, replacing them as they fill up and just putting more up in the trees.