Denise O'Donoghue

This one did surprise me.

So a disco ball, it reflects the light, as we all know, so you get quite the nice spectacle.

But flies' eyes are so sensitive to any change in light patterns.

So if you have one hanging outside and it's kind of bouncing a bit of light around, they're too confused and they won't land.

So you might have a fly pop along, maybe you're outside for a barbecue or a drink or anything.

And if there's one, you know, twirling nearby and casting a few bits of light around...

It's just going to avoid it completely.

It hates them.

So it's a great one.

And, you know, maybe disco ball's your thing anyway, so you might have one in the house.

But definitely you can DIY the same thing.

So a CD on a string, if you're not listening to your CDs anymore and they're just in a pile in the corner and you're kind of sick of it, you can maybe make a little project with the kids and make a few little, you know, hangers and sun catchers from them and hang those outside.

So it's a nice one to do.

Yeah, so I suppose a lot of us kind of make use of whatever space we have outside to store them anyway.

But if they're in the direct sunlight, they're usually dark colours anyway, so they just kind of absorb the heat a little bit more.

And if it's your household waste or your food waste, that's just going to make it extra stinky.

So if you have them a bit more in the shade, you're already doing a good deal more to just prevent any pongs coming out of it.

Well, they say about every two months.

Now, I'm not that diligent with it, but I think in the summer it's probably worth keeping a bit more on top of it.

So maybe if you did it at the start of the summer to get rid of any of those kind of winter residue and then the end of the summer or maybe during, if we are lucky enough to get a bit of a heatwave,