How does a blind person deal with a pesky fly?

Those with guide dogs should train them the way of the chameleon, that of the darting tongue.
Dogs are unable to change colour however, as far as i’m aware, can’t have everything.

Fly paper

I heard a radio report the other day about these tennis racket sized electric bug zappers that are all the rage in Brazil.

^ Are they passive or active? Do you just set it up, and somehow the fly runs into it not knowing it is there? Or do you have to hear the fly, wave it in the area you hear them, and if they contact the electric swatter fried instantly?

A set of chopsticks.

I think it’s a matter of contact with the thing that zaps the bug with a satisfying spark as well as an audible “crack”. I suppose if it’s on and stationary the results are the same. The primary targets in Brazil are mosquitoes.

@stanleybmanly someone gave me one of those several years ago, it is occasionally used to zap mosquitoes sitting unsuspectingly on the wall.

They become one of those epic blind samurai.

I’ve noticed that a fly will follow movement. So I wait until night, lure it into a brightly lit room, slip out the door, then with the door almost shut, I turn off the light. Works nicely until the next time someone opens the door and lets it out again.

^ How would that work for someone who is blind?

@Hypocrisy_Central you can hear them as they follow you.

@snowberry You got weird flies where you live at then, because common house flies typically don’t act like that.

@Symbeline I can hear a fly buzzing nearby. So can anyone with reasonably good hearing. They also follow light and movement. Knowing that, it’s easy for a sighted person to lure a fly into a brightly lit room, almost close the door, squeeze out, then slip their hand back through, turn off the switch and close the door. The fly stays put. I’ve done it lots of times. It’s easiest if the room you’re going back to is darker than the brightly lit room.

It would be a bit more difficult, but not impossible for a blind person to do the same thing.

The way flies see, they pick up motions real good but they can’t focus on what is moving. To them everything is like visual thunder storms of color and shadows, that’s why flies are fidgety as hell, since everything to them is a threat. That’s how I don’t get how you lure them with movement, since to them everything that moves is a threat and they wanna get away fom it.
However, when they stay put as you close the light makes sense, since such an abrupt light change is considered a threat to them. I guess they remain immobile in the dark instead of tryna escape because they need light to see.

@Symbeline I have yet to have the good fortune to be able to interview a fly. But when I do, I’ll ask it why it insists on following me. Does it really have a death wish? Do I really smell that bad (good)? And why must it play kickball on my potato salad after romping all over a dog mess?

Seriously, I think they follow movement because it means food in some way or another. But you’re right. They’re very skittish, and don’t want that movement too close to them (unless of course it’s their idea)! I couldn’t count how many times a fly has crawled on me…(haaaate it!)

As I think about it, I bet their sense of smell is pretty good, and that also attracts them.