Fly Trap

Step 3Materials and Tools

Materials and Tools
I thought the concept self-explanatory, but I got criticism from folks who thought I had written a beginning, an end, and left pretty much the middle out of the story. I will say that building the funnel takes a little finesse, but the rest is sloppin sum pante on tu make it luk gud.

To disambiguate, I have put together the steps I took in creating the trap in the photograph, which looks pretty good considering the state of my camera. Enjoy!

Materials:

+ Big Glass Jar
+ Screen
+ Beeswax
+ Reusable/Disposable food container
+ Elastic Hair Tie
+ Tuna Fish can
+ Plastic Cement
+ Plastic Cement Thinner

Tools:

+ Scissors
+ Sharp Knife (Box Cutter, Exacto Knife)
+ Drawing Compass, or big circle of some kind like an overturned pot.
+ Needle and Thread
+ Marker
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Jun 29, 2010. 11:04 AMNicholai says:
you could add honey tothe inside of the jar to make even more flies want it and come in and then laugh at their feeble attempts at escape muah-hua-ha--ha-ha

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