Customer Reviews

Stinger Mosquito Octenol Lure

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I use these Stinger Octenol zapper bait and I have a lot of skeeters living in Ag country with flowing irrigation. I change my lamp annually as recommended and change out the Octenol bait monthy as recommended... In the peak of summer I have to take my shop air hose out the door and blow out the bug zapper DAILY. I remove on a daily basis 1/2 to 1 cup of dead dried fried mosquito's... If you haven't used an Stinger bug zapper with Octenol bait your are not getting rid of all your mosquitoes. BTW, I have been Stinger zapper and Octenol user and a convinced user for six years after trying everything else on the market only to find I wasted my money. You will see serious results if you follow the directions enclosed with the product.

we have owned our stinger for 2 years-this is the time we had refils that were not effective.

So I've stuck this thing to my zapper and have seen very minimal results. It's in a small area where there are a good bit of mosquitoes, but believe me they have more interest in ME than anything else. There most be something better out there.

This is a good product and performed as described in the description itself, however, there were a couple of disappointments. The first was when the product came, it mentioned that if my zapper was a certain type, or didn't have a particular "holder" on the underside of the zapper, that I would have to buy the correct holder for the bait. Since I was being eaten up by mosquitoes, with an average of 6 to 8 new bites each evening when going out to water my garden, my husband opted to tape on the bait on the bottom. It has worked very well. It took about a week to get the mosquitoes under control, and then I was able to go out and sit on my deck or water the garden with no to maybe 1 or 2 bites. A great improvement! My second disappointment was only 1 bait in the package. For some reason I thought there would be at least 2 baits in there and that was a letdown. It also has a strong smell and probably should be opened outdoors when ready to install in the bait holder. Overall, however, because of the bait's performance and for the lasting of 30 days or more, (mine has been at 5 weeks thus far and could be because of the taping?), I would recommend and buy this product from them again. I am saving all their connect info for next Spring in time to order for the upcoming mosquito season.

Mosquitos here are incredibly thick this year. We tried the citronella repellents and they were ineffective. Nothing is better then drawing the bugs in and burning them. this product enhanced the bug lite tremendously but they need to be replaced every few weeks so I just had to get more. thanks

It lures some bugs but we also used it without and got just a few less. So I do not recommend this.

Yeah you can tell it does attract the mosquitos...

And the boost in zapper kills you get from it versus its cost only justifies getting it IF the mosquito population is very very high. If its not, then don't waste your money on it.

Now what would be a better value is make one for 80 cents that only lasts three or four days. And make it a little stronger. The idea is to leave the bug zapper on for that entire time, and lure 75% of them into it. Ya know? Might be good for 12 days or so, before the population builds up again.

Anyway, its not very effective, and I'd only buy it again out of desparity.

With changing weather conditions and only occasional use it is difficult to determine if this product makes the bug zapper more effective. As others have reported, it was not clear that we needed a holder for the lure, but without it, it was fairly easy to tape it onto the zapper. The "placebo effect" gives us some satisfaction with the lure.

Stinger Mosquito Octenol Lure
Could not find out if it works because I could not get it to fit in the bottom of the Stinger like the instructions say to do.