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Awesome. Absolutely awesome! This is a fly trap that works. After a little over 3-weeks the first trap looks like a morbid science experiment. Each day dozens of flies get in the cannister and die on top of the water. Next day, same thing as the flies from day before sink to the bottom. Repeat this daily for about 22-days and each day's layer of dead flies have turned the bottom of cannister into stacked thick layers of flies. On some days when the activity seems to have slowed, I put the water-hose on slow trickle and fill the cannister back up to the crease line through the slot in the blue top of cannister and it seems to reactivate fly interest. Some days when I check, there are flies (all sizes) walking around on the top of cannister, flies swimming in the goo inside the cannister, and flies flying around the pole holding the cannister. I received two cannisters and now hanging the second one in another location. I had wanted to see how the first one worked and I'm satisfied. Don't ask why there are so many flies and such a wide variety of types. Nothing has changed in my big backyard but I'm not sure what's going on next door at neighbors. There are no dogs for an easy poop explanation and no smell. Why all the flies all of a sudden? I hope the neighbors aren't burying something over there (I never see them). For now - it's the fly trap to get for mysterious sudden fly infestations. Great.

They work amazingly well. Within days the first one trapped hundreds of flies....BUT, I went to empty it and refill and OMG!!!! The odor is absolutely horrid. I thought I was going to lose my lunch. I am not sure if it's the smell of the bait or the smell of thousands of rotting and purified flies. Afterwards I couldn't get rid of the smell. Undoubtedly, just touching it (I did NOT get any on me) the smell stuck to my skin. I've used soap multiple times, eventually resorted to using vinegar rubbed in well, then Dawn soap, followed by a hand soap. There's still a fait whiff but at least I'm not going to puke. Beware. Place for from where people are and use gloves and for pity's sake do NOT touch or get any on you.

If you have chickens, a fly trap like this isn't optional. We used disposable bags before, but they've gotten too costly. This is one of those things where it's SO GROSS, forget the environment, forget the cost, you just want to trash it. But hey.. you handle them when you trash them, and the cost is prohibitive. The contrast is such that, well, I guess I'll have to save the earth, too.. unless pouring this liquid into our compost is somehow worse. Stupid, complicated Earth.. So here we are. We started early with our trap (before Spring was official) and it took weeks before we started seeing magic. But lo and behold.. Every bit as good as the disposables, and it does smell better than those did, at least on this first use. By a wide margin, actually. Same stink, just less of it. It doesn't leak, and seems to be of good quality re: construction/materials. You can see from my image that it kills enough flies to provide you opportunity to organize a guessing game with prizes and all. So yeah, no qualms about performance. I'll be clearing it out soon and will update then. If I get just two uses out of it, it'll have paid for itself. Beyond that, I'll be in fiscally responsible adult-town. They may even make me mayor. Wow, Pyts, you sure do love the environment! Yes. Yep. I do. I can afford to. Update: Did the refill. It's gross, and I hate my life, but I can't quit until my existence nets a positive benefit for the world or some semblance of meaning beyond irony. Yeah.. It's an existential crisis kinda job.. but it's fast, and easy, and the trap is back up and nabbing flies just like before! Why do people these days worship metal products? Metal rusts. A thousand years from now an archeologist will dig up my fly traps and postulate on my savage ways. But flies will be extinct by then, and for better or worse, they owe it all to me. *cough* and this flytrap.

Working at an animal boarding facility...we can get ALOT of flies. I despise flies, to me very few bugs even come close to the level of annoyance flies accomplish. Mixed with the fact they literally reproduce in poop and dead stuff...disgusting. and that's just normal generic house flies, look up "new world screw worm fly" literally flesh eating flies, its the stuff of nightmares. If I had it my way, the US would commit its annual defense budget to the eradication of flies, but apparently that would be "bad for the planet" (seriously I've looked into it) however my sources tell me I can go hog wild in my own eradication and I won't even begin to affect the overall fly population...to which i say, challenge accepted. That brings me to the topic of my own personal holy war against flies and the tools of the trade. Total fly Decimation, Annihilation, Eradication. DAE for short. Project New DAE. I have used alot of products since the start of project new DAE. I have found these style fly traps to be the most efficient. No annoying sticky paper to deal with or sketchy chemicals. You just fill with water, drop in the bait and hang them. You rarely even have to replace them. See the flies fly in attracted to the bait and eventually die, well more flies fly in, breed, die and the result is this ever replicating form of bait goop of dead flies that for some strange reason attract more flies. You just have to occasionally add more liquid (water but ive thrown in soda and a few other drinks with added effect. While I have used this style of fly traps alot and absolutely recommend this style, this was my first time with this specific brand. Normally I use the lime green ones, the "Rescue!" brand but these were on sale, basically 2 for 1 compared to the rescue brand. So i decided to give them a shot. Disappointed Long story short...the bait doesn't work nearly as well. The price is great, you get 2 nice reusable trap bottle that both come with hanging chains and 4 pouches of bait. Great deal. Except the bait doesn't work. I ran comparison tests, I put both fly traps up switching between 2 areas. One had this brands bait the other had "Rescue!" Bait. Left them up for a week each, temperatures were similar. This brands bait barley attracts them, where "rescue!" Brings the swarm. My advice is buy these on sale, use the bait up maybe but then buy "rescue!" bait refils. Had to see but first picture is the "resuce!" Brand bait that has a ton of flies and the send is this brands bait with hardly any. I even tried different water levels for both. The "Rescue!" Brand bait is just better all around.

They work great! It takes a couple of hours to start seeing results but they work! Be advised that the smell is very strong which is what attracts them to the trip so follow the instructions and adhere to the distance. Great product if your struggling with Flys and other pesky insects in your backyard.