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Doc's flytraps were primarily invented for sheep farmers, to reduce flystrike. However, they are also ideal for around the house, cowshed, stables, wool shed, paddock, basically anywhere you have a fly problem.

It all started back in 1996, when Donald decided that there must be something else to help control flystrike. And then it dawned on him. Flytraps! The only thing was making a trap that would catch flies and keep them in there. Then one day, after a hard days work, he was sitting having a couple of cans. He emptied one, stared at it and then it suddenly hit on him exactly how a flytrap would work. Donald soon began working on his idea by punching holes into the can, then cutting some holes around the circumference of a plastic bucket. Into the bucket went some rotten fish and water and no sooner had he sealed the bucket with plastic, flies began to head for the holes in the cans. Once inside, they were trapped and eventually died.

Then in 1998, Donald decided to take his invention to the National Fieldays, where things began to happen. For starters, his invention not only won an Ingeniuos Method Award, it also piqued the interests of dozens of farmers. True, the model which he displayed there might have been rudimentary - four beer cans inserted into a plastic container and baited with either liver or fish - but it worked. The success at the fieldays, coupled with the widespread farmer interest, prompted Donald - and wife Gaewyn - to explore the possibilities of refining their flytrap and producing it commercially.

A few months after the Fieldays, they visited plastic manufacturers in Auckland, purchased their mould, and have now been selling these flytraps since 2000. You can find them at most rural outlets throughout NZ.

They come in three sizes: 9L, 20L, 60L, PLUS a flytrap fitting.