From Becky Evans, Colton, who last week submitted an image to Photo of the Day in which she and her fellow gardeners were sporting their homemade bug hats:

Here are some more pictures of Steven and Shiloh DeGray with the "Tanglefoot conehead hats".  We are doing a "gardenshare" with their family.  They come out and help us in the garden and then take home some of the produce. It has been great fun for all of us.  They have enjoyed learning about gardens,but also have enjoyed playing in the fields and dirt piles and findingfrogs, toads, and tiny toads too.

Steven and Shiloh DeGray weed the garden without worrying about deerflies.

As you can see, the hats are effective insect traps.

In case you missed the original Photo of the Day and explanation for the hats, here it is:

Cone heads tangle feet of deer flies with the new stylish “Tanglefoot Cone Head Hats”. The new Tanglefoot Cone Head Gardening Club was started the other night as Bill and Becky Evans of Colton, NY, and Stephanie DeGray and her children Steven and Shiloh DeGray of Potsdam, NY worked in the Evans’ garden in Colton, NY. The blue cups were slathered with tanglefoot and then taped to their hats with gorilla duct tape. The deer flies are especially attracted to the color blue and swarmed to the cups and immediately got stuck in the tanglefoot. It made gardening a much more pleasant experience when the deer flies disappeared. Do you think we can start a new fashion trend?

Caution:Tanglefoot is very sticky and gooey. I would tape the cup to the hat first, and then put the tanglefoot on it. Don't use a good hat as the chances it will also get tanglefoot on it are very high. We used gorilla duct tape as it is very strong and good at sticking to things, even fabric. I should have used 4 pieces of tape on cup in photo as the next day the cup was lying down touching the hat. It would be easier to put more tape on cup before the tanglefoot is on it. It was amazing how quickly those deer flies ended up on the hat while I was gardening–before I had a chance to be bothered by them.

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