My dad was always coming up with new ideas and was quite an inventor. I didn't realize it then, but many of the things we "needed" around the farm were made by him, such as our Fly Trap.It was a pan with a screen canopy over it. There were holes in the side of the pan where the flies could get into the bottom part that was filled with sugar water. There were also holes in the screen that covered the top of the pan so when the flies drank the water, then flew UP, they would enter the chamber above which was enclosed with screen.
Did you know that flies always fly UP after then eat? They didn't know how to fly down to escape the trap they found themselves in.
It was a stinky, messy job to empty the fly trap when it became full of dead flies.
--As told by Alice Gregory
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