Buy It And Try it: The Fly Catcher

Nothing is more annoying than pesky flies buzzing around. Let's see if
the Fly Catcher will take care of the problem.

Cub Packs 259 and 365 spend a lot of time enjoying the outdoors. Today
their families are barbequing at Camp Pollock in Sacramento. For 6- to
10-year olds, they sure have a lot of experience with flies.

As the parents work around the grill, the kids share some fly stories.
They admit buzzing bugs are annoying, so I give them my
battery-operated Fly Catcher. It's supposed to be the fun and
practical solution to deal with annoying insects.

It even burps after killing a fly.

First, you have to mix the special bait that comes with it with water,
then saturate a sponge with it, inserting the sponge in a compartment
in the catcher's mouth.

Then we take it over to the table with our food and wait for it to
snap shut, eating the flies.

Sure, the flies are around, especially on the watermelon, but they
don't seem to like our Fly Catcher.

So if the flies won't come to the Fly Catcher, we move the Fly Catcher
closer to the flies. Then, we wait. And wait. And wait.

The flies like to swarm around it, but not in it. I brave putting my
hand in there, but it doesn't shut, or burp.

So we drop some raw meat into the trap. Finally, one lands right on
our Fly Catcher, but doesn't go in! But then…

Nothing. The fly goes in, but the catcher doesn't close.

The kids aren't impressed.

"Don't buy it. It's a waste of money," says one.

I paid $19.95 plus shipping and handling and bought it online.