Catchmaster Giant Fly Glue Trap 1-Pack 30 Feet Each, Adhesive Fly Traps Outdoor, Sticky Bug Catcher, Bulk Flying Insect Paper Roll, Pet Safe Pest Control for Garage, Barn, Greenhouse & Garbage Room

Works very well. Need to be in a open space away from people, especially children, and pets, but it does work

I've lived in this apartment for eight years and for eight years, every summer I get fruit flies--because my upstairs neighbors, who have also lived here for eight years, are disgusting with their rotting garbage and it doesn't take long for their problem to become everyone's problem. A testament to the joys of apartment living.It takes me a full arsenal of UV light traps, fly stick traps, fly punch, homemade apple cider vinegar + soap traps, and sticky window sheets to get rid of them every year...and even then I've only got about an 85% success rate, and the only way to get rid of the rest is to wait for winter and the cold hands of a frosty death grasping them by their tiny little wings.This year I decided to try a different trap and happened to notice the Catchmaster sheets. As cheap as they are, I figured...no way these are any good, but the ratings were high and I was desperate as the problem started late this year, but made up for it by being especially bad. So I bought one roll to give it a try.Last night I popped a push pin in the wall of the room with the worst infestation, hung the trap up, followed the instructions to pull out a foot of it, then wandered off for a minute for a visit to the little boy's room.By the time I washed my hands and came back, the trap had claimed its first dozen victims.Normally it takes a few days for the flies to notice any of the traps I put out, no matter what kind. It's kind of a domino effect, as once one or two land and get trapped it seems to attract the others, like they're saying "Oh? What's friendo over there checking out?" only to realize too late that friendo is trapped, dying, or dead. It's a process, is what I'm saying. It's never immediate.It's never this fast.I was seriously impressed. Then I went to bed, curious what morning would bring.Morning brought an almost fly-free room, with the trap so completely covered with dead and dying insects I had to cut it off and pull out a fresh length of it.There are a few stubborn holdouts still buzzing around, but I'm hoping they give in to temptation soon. In the meantime I've ordered the three-pack to take care of the other rooms, and I'm looking forward to a blissfully fly-free summer for the first time in eight years.So the long and short of it is these are cheap, very easy to put out, effective, and unobtrusive. I also want to say the smell is mild, but two caveats:1.) Even though it's mild, once it gets in your nose it sticks there and overrides everything else. I had a very, very strong-smelling lavender candle burning, one that normally overpowers the whole space, and I couldn't smell it anymore at all even though the smell of the sticky paper wasn't strong in my nostrils.2.) My sense of smell has been broken since I recovered from COVID in 2021. Some things I can smell normally, some things I can't smell at all anymore, some things are stronger or milder than they should be, and sometimes it just completely glitches in and out. So take anything I say about the smell of *anything* with that caution in mind, because my reporting on it may or may not be accurate.I can tell you what it smells *like* accurately, though, and it's just a nice little dose of pure rot. Mild. But pure rot.But if that's what it takes to attract the little jerks, that's what it takes.I'm just happy with the end results, and willing to put up with the occasional whiff of death.

The first time i tried to use this, i ended up wearing it and almost threw it out. Searches yielded nothing helpful. So here is what worked for me.Find a stake longer than the roll--enough to have some to use as a handle. Pry up the paper end with flathead screwdriver an inch or so and let stake adhere to it. Attach to trunk with a pushpin top and bottom (colored ones easier to find when you drop them) and unroll around tree. When you are couple inches from other side add another pin top and bottom and cut off roll leaving extra length. Cut stake off starting end, and complete circle by adhering paper to itself by prodding with screwdriver. (Scrape excess paper off stake with screwdriver too and/or drag crumbs onto paper towel.) MUST add fiberglass window screening material to prevent every other creatures getting stuck in it--e.g., birds, chipmunks, small children, yourself, etc. 24 inch depth on screen seems perfect, with most extra length at bottom, and some at top to create make it into a tent, with more pushpins--bugs need the clearance to climb up. Make folds in screening at intervals so it sits stiffly about 2 inches off fly paper--the adults only seem to crawl upwards, not down. If screen accidently sticks to paper, it can be gently lifted off without tearing the paper. When screen circle completed, add one bottom pushpin at closure to keep it from flapping open and defeating its purpose. Bottom needs to be open for free movement of upward crawlers.Change daily if your infestation is large---this is a river birch, which the buggers adore. Once the bottom of paper is congested they don't seem interested in crawling over carcasses to get to the empty top part of paper, so don't think its not time to change it-- just keep replacing. Added 2nd one on same trunk and its just as full, since they leap really far from everywhere. To dispose of old paper, take out pins and prod with screwdriver into wad and wrap in paper towel. Probably would work fine with half width of paper, but really no easy way to cut it down and get it back on roll since its so super sticky.Further refinement in control: set a brass hose nozzle on jet, and hose down the trunk on all sides as far as it will go. The clusters in the upper reaches fall to the ground, and since they can't fly when wet, then you stomp them. Then watch them crawl up the trunk and enlist a flyswatter if you are feeling savage and that extends life of trap a bit. While you're there water the tree since its being dehydrated by having its sap sucked.

It catches flies. We all know they can't resist the yellow color and it is sticky enough to trap them instantly. I am using mine outdoors so I had to outsmart the paper since it kept folding up in the wind. So I put two gardening stakes on either side.. now they're really piling on. The paper has flies imprinted on them already so don't be fooled, LOL. Got 4 in 10 minutes.

Great product and great value. Catches a lot of spider crickets and low cost to tear a new sheet.

This sticky stuff really works. Last summer i had an infestation of flies, it was due to these fly trap bags (you add water) that i had a few around my bakyard, it worked for a few days but then later it caused dead flies inside the bag to become food for new larvas to live in and then eventually turn into new flies, kinda like the circle of life. So i was not getting rid of flies at all, it was so bad i did not know what to do, thank goodness i saw a guy on YouTube that recommended this sticky product, and so i bought it, wrapped 3 large garden plastic pots, and place it at the affected areas, by the way i got rid of all the fly trap bags, it does not work to get rid of flies. Back to the story, i notice after a few hours, flies were getting stuck, more and more flies, i guess it attracts other flies, maybe because they hear the buzzing sound, I'm not sure, but the 3 wrapped garden pots seemed to be doing its job, i was pleased and after a few days i noticed an 80% decreased of flies. Every 3 to 4 weeks i would re-wrapped the plastic pots again with fresh sticky paper, by the way i have more sticky papers and will definitely be using it next summer.