Did you know that you can vacuum up houseflies as they are resting?

[Botany]

It is late summer and my old house gets houseflies for a few weeks and
chasing them down with a fly swatter is a pain. The swatter gets some but I just
found out that if you have some sitting on a window or a wall or a ceiling all you have
to do is take the attachments off the end of the vacuum so you just have the "pipe
part" and you can just come up behind the fly and it gets sucked up. By the time the
fly senses that it is in danger the suction of the vacuum is too much for it.

I have a new hobby. Too bad I have to got to work now.

[Scuba]

1. Wasps too!

[pintobean]

2. I've been doing that for a long time

with all kinds of insects - especially the ones with stingers.

[MuseRider]

3. Before my old old old horse

died I had to feed him a warm mash. He would get it smeared all over the walls of his stall and his feeding bucket. The flies were horrible no matter how hard I tried to get it all cleaned up (mice too, they were like his best friends and would run over my feet to get the remains left off the floor as I was cleaning). I discovered that quite by accident one evening as I was getting some stuff out of the corners of his feed bucket with an industrial vacuum. I spent an extra 30 minutes each evening after that vacuuming flies off the walls. It made me feel guilty but.....as you can imagine there are never a shortage of flies when you have livestock and are surrounded by cattle ranches.

Have fun. I just kept telling myself they were going to be dead soon anyway when it got cold. I never kill bugs except flies.

[Xyzse]

4. Oh my...

I never tried that.
I didn't even think to do that.

I enjoy chasing them around at times.
Nothing beats a well placed throw of a shoe or something that gets it. It feels so satisfying.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Sounds like fun.

[pipi_k]

6. And more!

Like mosquitoes!

Some years back before the bat houses were installed, we would get the worst mosquito infestations in the house. They would ride in on the dogs (free access to fenced yard through doggy door) and they would roost up near the top of the raised ceilings in kitchen and living room.

It was fun to suck up the little suckers.

Now we have bats, and the mosquito population is almost non-existent.

Yay bats!!!!

[Jenoch]

7. We once had a house where we would get an invasion of box elder bugs after the first hard frost.

They would gather on the sunny, south side of the house looking for a way to get inside. After finding dozens of them inside the baby's room, my wife freaked out. I just took the shop vac and sucked them up. I didn't know if the vaccuming would kill them or not, so I sucked up a little insect spray as well.