How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air?
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In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants.
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I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work.
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How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

On 12/30/2017 4:52 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air?
https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg

In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants.
https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg

I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work.
https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg

How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?


Unlike plain water, which flies can shed, soapy water truly wets them.
The added weight of water makes them too heavy to fly.

A slight amount of soap will not harm plants. I have used a trace of
soap in water as a wetting agent to moisten potting mix that has become
bone dry. I also mix a generouse squirt of liquid soap with water-based
sprays when applying insecticides or herbicides to ensure the target
plants are indeed wet by the spray. I use the cheapest liquid dish
detergent that I can find that does not have added scents.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

Given news wrote:

How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?

Did you add an acid?

https://www.getridoffliesguide.com/h...f-horse-flies/
Dish soap + vinegar

https://www.hunker.com/13405752/how-...with-dish-soap
Antibacterial soap + cider

https://youtu.be/m6m9xzhphLs
Non antibacterial Dawn dish detergent + water

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/soapy-w...ies-77788.html
Two percent soapy water with no citric acid

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...h-a-Vengeance/
Dish soap + baking soda + vinegar

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:52:46 +0000 (UTC), Dan Jenkins
wrote:

How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air?
https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg

In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants.
https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg

I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work.
https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg

How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?

The can't fly with soapy wings.

Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

Bad. You have Venus Fly Trap plants. Still immature. Older ones will
have an orange center in the trap. The plants produce a scent
attraction; creatures like flies, even ants.

I'd feed them via the potting soil / moss, early on. Set them in a
warm window sill and let them catch flies when the are ready. One the
trap closes it will days before it opens (feeding of the protien)

Have you tried a fly-swatter just to kill and collect proteins?"

On 12/30/2017 04:52 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

What is it about soapy water that knocks house flies right out of the air?
https://s10.postimg.org/t0p04p0h5/image.jpg

In case you want to know why, I use the flies to feed the plants.
https://s10.postimg.org/qw4n3mlzt/image.jpg

I'd rather not use soap (for the plants), but plain water doesn't work.
https://s10.postimg.org/gytmal1jd/image.jpg

How does a single soap drop of "flak" incapacitate a housefly?
Do you think the dish soap is bad or good for the plants?

Hi Dan,

I have a sprayer with soapy (disk soap) water that I
use to shoot down flies and nail spiders with around
the house.

insects do not have lungs. Instead their bodies are riddled
with tubes to the outside. The insects movement forces air
in and out. These tubes are too small for the surface tension
of water to penetrate.

The way soapy water works is that is lowers the surface
tension of water so that it goes down their breathing tubes.
The little buggers literally drown.

Insecticidal soap is another word for expensive dish soap,
expensive shampoo, or just plain old sodium laurel sulfate.
All the same stuff.

Soap won't hurt plants.

-T