Flytraps – Sun cream, swim suits and…flytraps?
Flies can ruin your holiday. Anyone who has longed for an idyllic beach moment – the ocean lapping the beach, the sun beating down, a cocktail at hand – knows how awful persistent flies can be. It’s impossible to relax when there’s a fly constantly landing on your arm, drinking your drink or making itself comfortable on your beach snack. Flytraps are commonly used abroad in cafes and restaurants but are impossible to avoid completely. If you’re travelling to Australia you’ll gain a new appreciation for good fly traps. Although it’s the kangaroo that is seen as the national symbol, the fly has had a much heavier influence on the culture. Putting flytraps and images of flies on tourist souvenirs and flags however, understandably, doesn’t have the same positive PR overtones as cuddly wallabies.
Flytraps: The Australian Salute
Flytraps are crucial for farmers in Australia as well as in shops, cafes and hotels. But flies have been attributed for shaping the way Australians speak – some say the nasal quality of Australian speech is a result of having to breathe through the nose when speaking for fear of swallowing a fly. There are particular parts of Australia that need more flytraps – notoriously the Alice Springs area – where the ‘Australian Salute’ is commonly seen: the art of fly flicking.
Flytraps, cork hats and the Tasmanian devil
The only positive PR for the Australian flies is the methods of trying to get rid of them – as well as flytraps, the Australians are well known for their corked hats. Thankfully, effective flytraps and repellents now mean it’s no longer crucial to see the country through a veil of corks. Although flytraps are an effective way of breaking up the breeding cycle and controlling the fly population, in the wilderness the Tasmanian devil was crucial to help reduce fly populations. The creature was a great scavenger of decaying meat, taking away the bountiful nesting opportunities for flies to lay eggs. Unfortunately, since the extinction of the creature from mainland Australia, flytraps are increasingly relied upon.
Fly in your soup?
Flies can be a menace to sportsmen as well as tourists. Australia is home to great sport, but at the recent Australian Open, tennis player Federer spent most of his energy trying to flick away flies rather than tennis balls. And it isn’t just Australia, in Turkey a recent legal action was taken against a hotel after two British holidaymakers became ill. Without effective flytraps, dead flies filled the pool and Jacuzzi and live flies buzzed over the open buffet. The pair believed that their severe diarrhoea and vomiting were related to the fly infestations.
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