Free ways to pester the pests that pester you!

Ok ive been having probs with the "tiny black flys" for a few week now, and im determined not to spend any money on anything to kill them off..

Ok heres a few FUN ways to keep the numbers down

1, Put a saucer under your drip tray, Pour a very small amount of beer into it and watch em get drunk and drown

2, Wrap some sellotape and wrap it arround your pot with the glue side facing outwards, within a day or so it will be covered in em, all dressed up with nowhere to go ha ha

3, cover the top of your pot with sellotape with the glue side facing the soil, roll up a piece of sellotape with the glue on the inside and insert it into the sellotape covering the pot. Every day when the new flys hatch they will either get stuck to the underside of the tape or try to fly or climb up the "tube of glue" and head to the light, but won't make it

4, Introduce a spider to your room, (most scamper off) but the odd one with a brain will stay and feast on your unwanted guests

I have all the above in operation and the problem has gone from a swarm to a few flys buzzing about

Good luck

Feel free to add any of your ideas on how to demoralise and wipe out the litte bstards!

haha nice!
I used to own a bunch of 'anoles' (small little green lizards) that eat up small flying insects like crazy.. they only cost a couple bucks each at the pet store, I wonder if you let a few of those loose in your garden, if it would also help.. cheers

Prob wont be able to get those lizzards, that cheap in the uk, but i'll look into it ha ha that would be funny, but what if he ate my spider?

go on the bazza!
been considering a few of these myself - gona move my tarantula tank closer and keep his lid off just incase . id rather hav no pests than notice then decide its time to get rid ken.
i wish i still had my dionea's (muscapula) for all my non latin heads they are fly traps - seen a good few goin and they look the fuckin part too . . what better for ur plants than gaurd plants
they would fookin thrive sumthin serious now iv a set up - i know thats not free but i remember getting already grown and potted online for no more than a couple quid . . .
other than that go to ur local lidl - dive into the big basket and find 1 of the fly zappers that were already pretty cheap ( i think) and plead ur case on how u dont see ay price stickers- find the most foreign or fucked up member of staff u can . . .
infact thats brought me back tho , i heard of a few actual herbs that detter many a pest i just cant remember what herb for what pest . . . im gona hav a quick scope in jorges bible and maybe google the badboy aswell.
i guess some regular ardening sites will hav good tips on co inhabiting plants and beds

LOL IM JUST TRYING TO CONQUER THE LITTLE SHITS WITH A ROLL OF TAPE AND A SWIG OF BEER LOL, OH AND A TINY LITTLE SPIDER THAT PROB EATS 3 A DAY, IM THINKING OF GETTING HIM STONED SO HE GETS THE MUNCHIES, IF HE DON'T START UPPING HIS PRODUCTION HES GONNA GET THROWN DOWN THE TUNNEL OF GLUE LOL

Damn caps...im not writing that agin lol