Customer Reviews

Flowtron MA-1000 Octenol Mosquito Attractant Cartridge

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This Flowtron machine did not work for us. I do not profess to be an expert, but with West Nile in Illois like it is, I needed something that would give us the freedom to be outdoors. I could not get the thing going and then when it did I caught 6 bugs in a month and a half. I took it back to Costco and got my money back.
I went out and bought the Mosquito Magnet (for 2 times the money). What a difference. I had to empty the net every 3 weeks or so. It is still going! It did not get rid of ALL the Mosquitos, but it did give us the backyard back.

It would not trap the Asian Tiger Mosquito that inhabited by back yard in Texas

This attractant was easy to handle and apply to the electronic bug zapper. Its adhesive backing should work with a variety of bug zapper models. The insert says that the bug attractant is activated and released by the heat from the electronic device. The ease of handling was important to me because I believe that this is a mosquito pheromone, and one wrong move and the hapless user could be the object of much unwanted mosquito attention. It was not a problem, however.

There is a nice little spot on the bottom of the Flowtron zapper for this cartridge. So I followed in the instructions and put it where it belongs and put the zapper on the pole. A few minutes later I noticed the cartridge laying on the ground. So I had to try and re-stick it, but when you do this, the wrapper is already off so you make your hands smell like mosquito attractant, which isn't a good thing. If your zapper is high in the sky like mine, it's a pain to get the zapper down and re-stick the cartridge only for it to fall off again a bit later. For some reason after about the 3rd re-stick it held. 3rd time is a charm I guess. I think the next time I put one in I might improvise something with zip tie, or some tape to keep it in there.

Did it work? Well I suppose. I like to have people over on Friday evenings for some grilled food and fire pits. So I spray the Cutter Back Yard spray a few times during the summer season, use Citronella Tiki candles, and some people use personal spray just for an extra level of protection. The Zapper is just another level of defense. So I have no idea if this was working or not,because of my other extensive counter measures. I will say that there were several mosquito kills and I personally without using personal spray took only 2 or 3 bites, but after an entire evening outside, that's not bad.

One day I didn't bother to replace the cartridge and it seemed like the number of mosquito kills went down. That could be that there were just fewer mosquitoes because of my spraying the yard for bugs, or it could be the cartridge really works.

I guess, I'd say try it both ways. See what works best for you. My Flowtron zapper came with one to try out, but it would be worth the few bucks to pick one up and try it just to see if you get more kills.

I bought the machine and lures last summer from amazon. had to buy a second box of lures as the first didn't fit the machine. bad info on the item. The second lure wouldn't stick - the old tape doesn't completely clean up and out for the next one. We caught tons of moths but hardly no mosquitos.

This isn't a great machine but then it isn't 300.00 either.

I purchased this by mistake and Amazon will not take it back. I meant to purchase the six count which costs only $5.66 each which is less than half the cost of this single count product. I ordered this one in error and Amazon wont let me return it even for an exchange.