I seriously needed a good smile and giggle this morning and I appreciate you for it ! :) My Mom always caught flies with either news papers or magazines and they work!
I work at a front desk in the summer, and the lobby is very open to outside. Now that I recall, whenever a fly would fly in, I would test my ninja skills and try to get it with my hands.
I have billions of tree frogs around my house, rarely need a fly swatter. Now meat bees ( yellow jackets ) I like to feed them little bits of my lunch and dinner when I sit outside. :-)
On the occasions I do go after flies I like the snapping dish towel maneuver. Thwack!
Very gratifying, but not as gratifying as towel snapping a person. lol
A pump action spray bottle filled with chlorine.
I also used to kill these big mosquitos with an airsoft gun. Get really close, and then boom. They completely disintegrate.
I was given two Electric fly swatters as a gift. There are batteries and a push button in the handle. Turn it on and the grid is raised to 3000 volts. All you have to to is touch the fly, bee, wasp, etc. and it’s toast.
Make sure you don’t accidentally touch the business end of the swatter yourself.
I strategically place swatters around my house, but my husband insists on whacking them bare-handed. I’ve lost a windshield in my car and have a hole in my living room ceiling to his fist.
We have a selection of swatters, all different colours, where the “kill zone” is in the shape of a hand. Quite a chubby little hand, like that of a toddler.
My husband uses his fist and rarely misses. He claims to know what their trajectory will be. I know that too, but am fooled by the fly’s timing. That, and the fact that I really don’t want to kill them.
But is you gotta go on a Sunday, you may as well be hit by humor.
I had a fly swatter shaped like a foot, so I could “Step” on them.
When my dad swatted flies, he would follow the action with, “It won’t have the guts to do that again.”