When I unlocked the door to our vacation rental on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 2021, there was a fly in the foyer. Focused on keeping mosquitos outside — we had learned the previous year how bad the mosquitoes can be on and around Chincoteague Island — I quickly stepped in and shut the door behind me. I brushed the fly away and dropped the first load of stuff from our car.
I got a good giggle out of imagining Captain Cargo shorts wielding his samurai fly swatter. There had to be fly larvae somewhere for them to be replicating so quickly. Ugh. Fly tape, good to know.
I feel like there is a good biology lesson with this story! We have flies every fall but I can’t bring myself to do the tape - just a lot of swatting!
We used tape here in Lisbon for a while this summer. I hated it at first - kept walking into it - but eventually got used to it. It helped.
I got a good giggle out of imagining Captain Cargo shorts wielding his samurai fly swatter. There had to be fly larvae somewhere for them to be replicating so quickly. Ugh. Fly tape, good to know.