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Victor M500 Poison-Free Indoor Fly Trap

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I have many flying critters because of leaving a door open for my dogs. I am afraid to open my mouth for fear of one landing there. The fly trap placed by a light has collected not only flies, but gnats, moths, and a number of unidentified flying critters, and has allowed me to live in peace again. I'm so pleased I am going to stock up on them. Be careful not to touch as they are very sticky, but it comes off easily too. M. L.

It was the "poison-free" part that attracted me; I don't like spraying bug spray all over my house. So I bought one of these. But I have to tell you, I was pretty skeptical. "Trap features fly-enticing 3-D design"? You've gotta be kidding. These goofy little 3-D boxes are supposed to attract flies? (Plus, my problem is fruit flies, not houseflies.)

Well, I caught nine fruit flies with it, roughly one per day. And where do you suppose they landed and got stuck? Yep, right on those silly pink "3-D" boxes, as if they thought they were flying through a tunnel or something. Don't ask me. They must be some pretty dumb fruit flies.

Note, however, that if you have that many fruit flies, then you probably have them breeding somewhere, and you just haven't found where yet. This kind of trap helps you pare them down, but if you have so many that the minute you squash one, you see another, you need to find that they're feeding off of and take care of it first. I discovered dozens of them in (yuck) a diaper pail, whose contents should've been thrown out long before. I didn't think fruit flies ate that stuff (well, I guess some of it was fruit once), but now I know. This trap is good for catching them _after_ you've rooted out the infestation, but it definitely won't stop such an infestation by itself.

The picture shown is not the item you get. The one you get is made out of thick white paper/thin cardboard with pictures of flies and 3D pink boxes on it (under the sticky stuff). It catches fruit flies and gnats just fine, but anything larger can get out and the flies aren't even interested. Don't waste your money.

I ordered two of these and placed one in the narrow laundry room just inside the back door where all the flies come into the house (I leave the back door open for my two dogs to go in and out of the house when I'm home.) and put another one in the kitchen where the flies hang out while I'm cooking. Apparently Colorado flies are far too smart to get close to these things. I have not caught ONE. The only way these 'traps' are going to eliminate flies in my house is if the flies die laughing.

The Victor Poison-Free M500 Indoor Fly Trap appears to be something that attracts and traps flies, but what it really is is a box with fly paper on it. It worked well in catching the fruit flies I had, but isn't exactly what I expected.

After two weeks, I decided to check on the fly trap. I expected to find at least 100 dead flies.

But what I found was a single dead fly, I guess It died a lonely death.

My backyard is infested with literally thousands of flies, but somehow all the flies magically flew around this fly trap.

Spending $6.08 is too much just to kill a single fly. I could have saved money by killing one manually with a fly swatter.

Very impressed - the one I put up in our basement is a fly graveyard now after only a few days (they are really bad this year for some reason). I'm ordering a couple more just so I have them in reserve.

These traps work great -- lying down. If you try to hang them, they are useless. We had them hanging for days and nothing...and then one fell. It caught 6 flies in 10 minutes that way. I think the flies like to land ON it, not fly into it. We put them at the bottom of our windows and on counters near food. Catches them all the time..

They should call it the NO FLY TRAP. I put where I had alot of flies and it did not work.

After a week of hanging up right in the middle of the swarm of flies on my basement, it hasn't caught a single fly. The flies are constantly flying all around both of these that I hung, and I'd be flabbergasted if some weren't bumping into it even just by random accident, but not a single one has stuck to it. Don't buy these!