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In both years, the stickyflypaperwas replaced every two days.
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In fact, they said that they could not get rid of him—he was stuck to them like a fly toflypaper.
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One puts on some attractive sticky stuff and hopes the fly will get on to theflypaperand be stuck.
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The lady who bought the flypapers said she was making cosmetics.
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Concentrations could be blasted out of existence, and cities picked off the surface of the earth like dead flies off aflypaper, such is the devastating effect.
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It is expected that the supply of flypapers during the coming summer will not be less than the supply last year, and that this should be adequate.
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Alternatively, insects can be retained by making the leaf stickier by the production of mucilage, leading toflypapertraps.
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Handling and disposing offlypapercan be awkward because it is so sticky (vegetable oil can be used to remove the adhesive).
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It has been suggested that the pitchers of this species function not only as pitfall traps but also asflypapertraps.
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Such snares are termedflypapertraps, but the trapping mechanism of sundews is often erroneously described as passive.
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Flypaperloses its effectiveness over time when it dries up or becomes covered with dust, and it should be replaced regularly.
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The leaves are considered activeflypapertraps that respond to captured prey by bending to surround it.
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Noflypapercan hold him and no insecticide can stop him.
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They realize the futility of the war and that the flies have conquered theflypaper.
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He invented a new form for reports on the use offlypaperand sent it to command.
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