Actually I was told that you could take a spray bottle with white vinegar in it and spray the table chairs and the patio down with it and the flies will actually stay away. There is something in the vinegar that the flies just hate and they can smell it a ways away and will stay completely away from it.

I have never tried it but plan on trying this summer on the patio to see if it actually works. Some actually swear by it. You do not dilute it at all and just spray a fine mist of it on the table chairs and the surrounding area and let it dry the flies can still smell it after is has dried..

I am sooooooooo tryin'/doin' this!!!

Maybe THAT explains why flies always land on the burger and not the salad at the picnic ... wonder if cider vinaigre would work too ... ?

Develope some mind power, and kill the flies with mind waves. Use a quartz crystal, if need be, to amplify your mind, and think evil thoughts about the flies. Imagine the flies exploding, splatting against invisible walls, etc. If your mind is strong enough, the flies will die, and others will sense their deaths and stay away. This works better than bags of water...if you have mind enough to make it work. It works on people, too, which is the basis of Voodoo, The Placebo Effect, and more.

A single fly lives about four days! You could wait!

The bag is to make moisture and them not cross. I don't know of it working!

Use a wire fly swat! The plastic ones are so thick in the screen as to slow down your strike and the fly gets away. Wire!

If you will give rubber bands to the kids and the big kids called grown ups. Show them how to wrap the band on the middle finger, come up and around the first finger (palm to back), then press the thumb to the rubber band and pull tight. You now have a great fly body splatter. You come slowly and release.....bug parts all over the place. great for all kids. My 74 year old uncle had more fun one week on a visit when I showed him how.......he would look for several minutes to find just one more fly to murder!