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Jefferson Currie II is at war with flies.

Spotted flypaper dangles from the ceiling of his home in North Carolina's Scotland county. He shows off a two-quart jar trap, marketed as an outdoor pest control solution for farms, full of flies he's caught indoors. On Zoom meetings for his job as the Lumber Riverkeeper with the non-profit Winyah Rivers Alliance, he mutes himself and goes offscreen to avoid distracting others with the heavy thunk of his pump-action, salt-shooting plastic fly gun.