The German conceptual artists sitting in the pose of Rodin’s Thinker with flies glued onto his naked body smeared with jam, whose photograph you published in your Stunts Section (No. 66, March 2007), offers a pretty good illustration of Jules Renard’s diary entry of April 7, 1894:

Pour détruire les mouches, ce metter tout nu et s’enduire de glu liquide, mélangée d’un peu de miel ou saupoudrée de sucre, et se promener dans sa chambre. Les mouches attirées viennent se coller sur votre peau. Vous les prenez comme vous voulez. Le procédé manque d’élégance, mais il est infaillible.

As the photograph shows very well, this method of fighting flies is quite infallible albeit inelegant, as Renard dutifully conceded. Anyhow, the poor stunter ended up merely illustrating something a conceptual artist of much greater stature came up with more than a century ago. Alas!