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Terro 2500 Fruit Fly Trap

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I read reviews for all of the fruit fly remover products that I could find before making a choice. I decided to buy 2 products, the Terro 2500 fruit fly trap (http://www.amazon.com/Terro-2500-Fruit-Fly-Trap/dp/B002EJLLEE/) and the SpringStar - Kitchen Fruit Fly Trap (http://www.amazon.com/SpringStar-Kitchen-Fruit-Fly-Trap/dp/B000E3BZQ6/). If I matters, I used Dawn dish washing soap with this product. For whatever reason, this product requires you to add liquid soap.

They arrived today (11/3/09). Being who I am, I put one of each in the kitchen, one on the floor next to the trash can and the other on the window sill. I did put 2 or 3 drops of the Terro 2500 product in the trash can.

Within the first 3 hours of having these products out, a little over half of all of the fruit flies were in one of these jars instead of flying around the kitchen. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I think I had more fruit flies then prior people that posted, but I could be wrong. I checked back about 4 hours later and the majority of the remaining fruit flies were in the jars also. Yippee! Both of these products worked for me.

These catch a few flies, but not nearly as many as you can catch with home-made traps. I caught many more using a small pickle jar, in which I put 1 inch of apple cider vinegar and a few drops of dish-washing liquid.

as others have said, a homemade trap will cost you much less. Put some apple cider vinegar or balsamic vinegar in a jar (I have even used baby food ones), add a few drops of dish soap to break up the surface tension of the water, shake gently and set out. Within 30 minutes, more than half of my flies were trapped in the liquid. Even if you don't use the rest of the vinegar for cooking, it will only cost you a couple of bucks to make this trap. it's been a savior here in Europe where there are no screens or air conditioning so they come in the open windows quite freely.

About a year ago, my boyfriend and I moved into a new apartment - we managed to score a fantastic 2 bed, 2 bath apartment with low rent and included utilities. It was the perfect place to start our life together, and I was often delighted to come home to a beautiful new bunch of flowers on the table...until one day he brought home Kale flowers, and soon began...THE INFESTATION.

Fruit flies began popping up everywhere, flying in front of my face when I was doing dishes, in front of my computer screen in a dark room, landing in my coffee cups every morning when I wasn't looking, and of course, a dozen would launch into flight any time I neared the kitchen sink. I began to wage war - I kept my house spotless from food or damp places they could nest. I would lock onto one and stalk it around the apartment, my back huntched, my hands out ready to squash the beast as soon as I got an opportunity. Unfortunately, this was a battle I was losing.

I found the Terro 2500 Fruit Fly Trap whilst googling home remedies for getting rid of fruit flies. I ordered two, and was at first confounded - several fruit flies would land on the outside of it and sit there, almost as if to mock my feeble attempts to one-up them on the battlefield. This continued for several days. However, I soon started noticing the bastards climbing down into the chamber, and now, a week later, there are at least 20 carcasses in my Terro 2500 Fruit Fly Trap by the sink, trapped dead forever in the red liquid, serving as a reminder for every new fruit fly that crawls down the trap - I will be victorious.

OK so I read all the reviews and decided to buy this trap. I also put a homemade fruit fly trap on the windowsill 6 inches away. The homemade one caught 36 fruit flies in 12 hours. It's a bud vase with a little red wine vinegar in the bottom, with 2 drops of dish soap to break the surface tension of the water. This Terro trap has caught ZERO fruit flies in 12 hours. Weird!! Especially weird because the ingredients are the same...the trap ingredients list is: acetic acid (vinegar) and sodium lauryl sulfate (soap) and water. I don't understand WHY the trap is not working...it should be, since the ingredients are the same...but the bud vase is totally working, so if I were you I would try that first!!!

As a bartender we are at constant war with fruit flies. I've tried many products, as well as some failed home concotions. This trap has worked the best. When the trap is down it attracts every fruit fly within a 4 four radius, even next to fruity alcohols! i've had one for a couple weeks and it still attracts flies. It's small and doesn't leave any noticable odor. definatelt best product I've found so far.

I have a parrot who eats lots of fresh fruit. I have never had fruit flies in 20 years. For some reason in the last few weeks I have a lot of them. I bought 2 of these traps. They are nicely designed and well made but are VERY pricey at $7 a pop. It's a small plastic ball (size of a golf ball)with some 'attractant' drops to put in the ball. Turns out the 'attractant' is apple cider vinegar with red dye in it. I opened the traps added the liquid and waited. Lots of buzzing around for several hours but no catches. When I woke up this a.m. both traps had about 30 fruit flies each - so they are working. There was lots of interest in them right away but for several hours none were trapped. After 24 hours they are pulling them in. It's important to note these traps work for FRUIT FLIES ONLY. They don't work for gnats or house flies.
After watching this work I made my own traps out clear plastic cottage cheese containers. Make sure the container is washed and clean. Pour about an inch of ONLY apple cider or red wine vinegar in the bottom (Regular WHITE vinegar DOES NOT WORK).Add one drop of liquid dish soap. That breaks the tension of the vinegar and allows the flies to sink and drown. If you don't use the drop of soap the flies can get away. I poked a few SMALL holes in the lid of the cottage cheese container. This lets the flies go in but they can't get back out.
This method is almost FREE. You could also use a container without a lid but I prefer to know the fruit flies are trapped once they enter.

I bought the Terro 2500 fruit fly trap and followed directions to the letter. Although we have fruitflies everywhere, not one has gone into the apple shaped bottle in 2 days. I have seen a couple walk around it but that is all.

It smells like the liquid it came with is just vinegar which I have already tried along with dish detergent which was recommended on the internet.

I don't understand how folks can say it works. Are we talking about the same product here?

To those of you who have had success with this product, what was your secret?

Have used this for a couple of weeks and there are many victims floating in the solution. I am ordering more right now.
It's small, cute and easy to use.

I bought this from my local Lowe's but they only had one in stock. I came to Amazon.com to order a couple more and saw a review by someone who said to try a home remedy of apple cider vinegar and some dish liquid. I put out several containers of this throughout my house and all of them had victims within a few hours. I went over to the one terra trap I purchased and there was nothing in there. Save yourself the money and use this method.