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How Do You Get Your VFT To Eat Dead Flies?
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Some people pop them in a freezer for a few minutes to stun them.
Not recommended, but if it's very fresh (I prefer to swat them first) yet dead you can place it inside and take a piece of flexible wire or hair and wiggle it on the trigger hairs. Keep wiggling it until the trap is fully closed (can be a bit tricky), that usually works for me.
Not recommended, but if it's very fresh (I prefer to swat them first) yet dead you can place it inside and take a piece of flexible wire or hair and wiggle it on the trigger hairs. Keep wiggling it until the trap is fully closed (can be a bit tricky), that usually works for me.
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If the bug is too big, the trap will not close completely around it.
Try to get bugs that are 1/2 to 3/4 the size of the trap.
That would almost ensure the trap will close.
But if the trap is old, temps are cool....the trap may not function right.
Remember that each trap will open and close about 4 times (average )
Try to get bugs that are 1/2 to 3/4 the size of the trap.
That would almost ensure the trap will close.
But if the trap is old, temps are cool....the trap may not function right.
Remember that each trap will open and close about 4 times (average )
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (wickedthistle @ July 09 2002,18:00)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Some people pop them in a freezer for a few minutes to stun them.
Not recommended, but if it's very fresh (I prefer to swat them first) yet dead you can place it inside and take a piece of flexible wire or hair and wiggle it on the trigger hairs. Keep wiggling it until the trap is fully closed (can be a bit tricky), that usually works for me.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
With regards to michelle's post, I used to do that all the time (wiggle things inside to fool the VFT into thinking it's alive - in my case I used chopped off ends of light gauge electric guitar strings) but I found that I would inevitably damage my traps every now and then when using this method. Better is to very gently squeeze the traps with your fingers to rub the trigger hairs against the dead bug. Do this intermittently for however long a live bug would have lived and that should fool your VFT. Leo
Not recommended, but if it's very fresh (I prefer to swat them first) yet dead you can place it inside and take a piece of flexible wire or hair and wiggle it on the trigger hairs. Keep wiggling it until the trap is fully closed (can be a bit tricky), that usually works for me.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
With regards to michelle's post, I used to do that all the time (wiggle things inside to fool the VFT into thinking it's alive - in my case I used chopped off ends of light gauge electric guitar strings) but I found that I would inevitably damage my traps every now and then when using this method. Better is to very gently squeeze the traps with your fingers to rub the trigger hairs against the dead bug. Do this intermittently for however long a live bug would have lived and that should fool your VFT. Leo
