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flypaper <a flypaper; flypapers> N

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The leaves are considered active flypaper traps that respond to captured prey by bending to surround it.
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Flypaper loses its effectiveness over time when it dries up or becomes covered with dust, and it should be replaced regularly.
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Flypaper and insect traps are alternatives to swatting or spraying houseflies.
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Chipped enamel basin, tarnished metal bedstead, tattered curtains and towels, a lumpy, ill-made bed, and a flypaper choked with its victims all proclaim the fact that visitors are not welcome.
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Handling and disposing of flypaper can be awkward because it is so sticky (vegetable oil can be used to remove the adhesive).
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The leaf of flypaper traps is studded with mucilage-secreting glands, which may be short (like those of the butterworts), or long and mobile (like those of many sundews).
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It has been suggested that the pitchers of this species function not only as pitfall traps but also as flypaper traps.
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That night, he sits alone in a hotel room, while a fly tries futilely to get out through a closed window and several others are shown trapped in flypaper.
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Historically, metallic arsenic (a well-known toxin to humans) was used in flypaper.
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These pitchers appear to function at least in part as flypaper traps, with the sticky inner walls trapping small flying insects above the surface of the fluid.
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