Introducing myself
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:48 am
Hi there all you Fly trappers! I am new to owning a new pet fly trap. I live not far from Gatwick Airport, England. My new pet lives in a first floor apartment with East and West facing windows, thereby getting quite a lot of sunshine. The weather here is typical of a Temperate climate of a Northern European country. Summer temperatures can reach to the 90's F. Winters can go down to freezing. The last couple of winters were particularly cold. My apartment has normal central heating and fitted with inert gas double glazing. My occupation is as a coach driver, so the hours worked can be up to 12 hours a day. I live alone so it would be unfair to have any pets other than the spiders in the corners of my flat. Flies are one creature I hate, so the new pet can be an asset. Although there doesn't seem to be may flies around at present. But, when I decide to have fish for a meal it is usually frozen, and when it is defrosting and being prepared the big blowflies appear, no matter how I try to swat them they are faster and always evade my futile attemps to hit them. On one attempt recently to swat a particularly persistant insect I swiped at it, missed, off course but managed to hit a glass lampshade which shattered and a piece of flying glass found it's way to my reasonably new LCD TV, leaving a nice little nick in the screen. So feeding may or may not be a problem, after reading all I can find about the Venus Fly Trap I am sure it can well look after itself. Chris Hale.
I really dislike flies too, and ants. Annoying little buggers! Thank gosh that's what my plants catch most!