Buy It Or Try It: Fly Catcher

There's nothing more annoying the pesky flies buzzing around. So let's see if this will take care of the problem here at Camp Pollock.

Cub packs 259 and 365 spend a lot of time enjoying the outdoors. Today, their families are barbequing at Camp Pollock in Sacramento.

Six to 10-year-old sure have had 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 flycatcher, we move the flycatcher closer to the flies and 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 meet into the trap. Finally, one lands right on our fly catcher but doesn't go in and then…nothing! The catcher doesn't close.

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