I'm fed up with the flies hanging round the cat food and am looking at indoor (and maybe outdoor) solutions. I was led to understand that electric insect killers are unhygienic (and you rarely see them now). Is this true? Are there good ones? Or does anybody know where I can get a good fly swat?
I had one of the "tennis racket" fly swatters - push button, charges the "strings" to a few kV in a second or two, then swat away. It was extremely effective.
Not sure your stats are right. My 2 cats kill at least 1,000 mice per year. Extrapolating, that would mean there are only 100,000 cats in this country.
Imagine how many mice there would be if it wasn't for cats. I think the neighbours should contribute to the cost of the upkeep of my rodent control executives.
I can thoroughly recommend this type they are very light and about 18” long, you do have to wait for the fly to land but when it does I have 100% hit rate, think because of the lightness and holes they do not feel it coming
The fly killers supplied by pest control these days are the same ultraviolet tubes, but rather than HV killer wire, they have sticky blue paper to catch the flies. The paper is on a roll, and a timer rolls the paper from the source drum to the soiled drum over time (not sure of the interval).