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Answer for the clue "Traps where prey flaps wildly ", 9 letters:
flypapers

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n. (plural of flypaper English)

Usage examples of flypapers.

Set rat and mousetraps, lay down poison for the cockroaches, and buy flypapers to twirl from the ceiling and trap the flies on their sticky, toxic surfaces.

Just how far did the use of flypapers by Flanagan and Higgins for the obtaining of arsenic serve as an example to Mrs Maybrick, convicted of the murder of her husband in the same city five years later?

Here was Saul, holding court amid the flypapers of the kitchen with the other dreamhouse mistresses who remembered him growing up as a lad here.

Several flypapers dangled from the ceiling, their potency long worn off, the flies stuck to them long since desiccated to dust.