Have you ever noticed that listening to the crickets chirping outside your open window at night is a beautiful symphony of fall that will lull you to sleep?
But one cricket chirping incessantly under the freezer in the basement is so annoying it drives one almost to insanity?
And leads to extreme methods of extermination.
Or that a few fruit flies enjoying the ripening tomatoes on the counter can easily be ignored.
But if left unchecked – those few fruit flies can become an militant army in the midst of a covert invasion almost overnight.
Which leaves you fighting a losing battle armed with several fruit fly traps and massive amounts of apple cider vinegar.
But sometimes the most annoying bugs are the ones you don’t see – the ankle biters.
These are the seemingly invisible ones that attack you in the grass and the yard.
You don’t even know were there until the next morning when you when you discover your ankles and feet are covered with tiny little itchy bites.
These – my friends – are the pressing issues that bug me today.
Design one – an old canning jar with apple cider vinegar and some ripe bananas as bait and a cone made from paper inserted in the jar. The theory is the flies can get in, attracted to the smell, but can’t get back out.
The second model is also a canning jar with apple cider vinegar and bananas, but this one has a piece of plastic wrap stretched over it and secured by a rubber band. It also has small pin holes pricked in the plastic.
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