19 The Front Of Our Villa

Also showing our Moth Trap hung on the Verandah area. As in many other places, the Ants quickly became aware of the small flies which had flown into the lamps every night, and had then fallen below the trap, and amazingly most of these had been removed by dawn. To avoid the trap being over-run and the moths being attacked, we hung it from the roof structure with string which had been smeared at the limits with Vic Menthol gel which formed an effective barrier to crawling insects. A similar application on the electricity cable made the trap isolated from this problem, although the occasional Praying Mantis had to be deported when found.