I recently bought a starbar brand captivator reusable fly trap to try to reduce the number of flies over my run after a solid week of rain. Cost at tractor store about $5.99.
It's about the size of a large plastic mayonnaise jar.
It comes with a pouch of attractant that you drop into the jar and add water to a marked fill-line then hang up. The pouch containing the attractant powder dissolves quickly in the water.
I hung mine using a bent coat hanger from a low tree branch which conveniently, is directly above the run.
The jar top has a loop. I used a zip tie to attach it to the coat hangar.
It's height from the ground is about four and a half feet.
The attractant smells like DEATH from a distance of a half dozen paces, but wow did it work! Within a few hours there were hundreds of dead flies already. By week three the smell had dissipated (finally) and there was a revolting four inch collection of primordial ooze, fly carcasses and maggots of various sizes in the jar. Totally disgusting!
Yesterday I was brave though! I unscrewd the lid, dumped the contents into a ziplock bag and tossed it in the garbage.
Rather than spend $10 on a bag of refills of attractant pouches, I'm trying a suggestion i read online. I filled the jar to the marked line with water and tossed in a meatball-sized hunk of raw hamburger.
So far so good, another hundred or so dead and no smell of death.
I highly recommend this product.
It's about the size of a large plastic mayonnaise jar.
It comes with a pouch of attractant that you drop into the jar and add water to a marked fill-line then hang up. The pouch containing the attractant powder dissolves quickly in the water.
I hung mine using a bent coat hanger from a low tree branch which conveniently, is directly above the run.
The jar top has a loop. I used a zip tie to attach it to the coat hangar.
It's height from the ground is about four and a half feet.
The attractant smells like DEATH from a distance of a half dozen paces, but wow did it work! Within a few hours there were hundreds of dead flies already. By week three the smell had dissipated (finally) and there was a revolting four inch collection of primordial ooze, fly carcasses and maggots of various sizes in the jar. Totally disgusting!
Yesterday I was brave though! I unscrewd the lid, dumped the contents into a ziplock bag and tossed it in the garbage.
Rather than spend $10 on a bag of refills of attractant pouches, I'm trying a suggestion i read online. I filled the jar to the marked line with water and tossed in a meatball-sized hunk of raw hamburger.
So far so good, another hundred or so dead and no smell of death.
I highly recommend this product.
