Fly Trap - Outdoor Living, Non-Toxic Fly Trap, Pest Control Trap, 10-Liter Commercial Size

I ate breakfast on the deck this morning and was not bothered by flies. I’d say it works . We suffer from black flys something fierce. Nothing I have tried has ever eliminated them. This is a good solution so far.I followed the directions for the yeast and hung it up on the outside part of my fence. (About 10-12 feet away from where we sit on the inside of the fence, but within 6 feet to the trash cans in the outside of the fence where the flies like to nest and breed.Today is the second day it has been in use and as you can see from the picture it has attracted and captured many flies. Now the mixture is just yeast, so it should be warm enough outside for the yeast to bloom and do its thing to attract the flies. I imagine it is going to get nasty as it fills up. I expect there will also me some maggot larva eventually. My husband will have to deal with the emptying and cleaning of that grossness. I imagine when it’s time to empty and refill with fresh one could just use regular yeast rather than buy the refills. But I haven’t tried that yet .I did not notice any bad odors as others have mentioned. But I am a professional baker and used to the smell of yeast so maybe that’s why?

My Mom has a big house on a large ranch where we use thousands of tons of chicken litter from the many local chicken farms to fertilize our hay meadows. Chicken litter (the straw and waste from the chicken houses) is a byproduct of the industry that must be disposed of and it makes great fertilizer. However, when you spread it out, all the fly eggs in it are able to hatch and you get a blizzard of flies! A BLIZZARD! It's actually good because the billions of maggots that emerge across the fields eat through the waste in the litter and process it and make all the nutrients more bioavailable for the grass to absorb. It's just part of how Nature works. Anyway, for a couple month each Spring and early Summer, she is besieged with flies and can't really sit outside on her porch. I saw these on Amazon and thought I would try them and sat two of them out on her huge porch and the fly population plummeted by 90% or more! REALLY!! In just a few days, the flies disappeared (well they ended up in the buckets!) They do work very well! But they do STINK!

I got this to take care of flies on the back patio. I didn't want to use any bug spray because of pets and pollinators.I was excited to try this product, mixed it all up according to the directions and then it sat.First, the lid didn't stay open and the instructions on how to set up the lid weren't clear. So I messed with it and got it so it was open with the lid still on as directed. No flies.I put a piece of cardboard in the lid to hold it open for the flies to get in. It didn't work.I tried every conceivable way to get this product to work and no flies in the bucket at all. Even when i took the lid totally off.Maybe I got a dud, but it was worthless for me.

I was so sure this was going to be the answer to my problems, but it backfired on me.I have two large dogs in a pretty small privacy fenced yard. I have someone who comes out twice a week to pick up their poo & dispose of it in a small enclosed outdoor trash can that I then put out for the trash truck ever two weeks. I was noticing an increase in flies as the weather started warming up, so started searching for a good solution. I have tried multiple types of fly traps. This one was easy to setup with the exception that the upper portion of the lid wouldn't stay up on its own, so I propped it open with a piece of cardboard.I placed it fairly close to the patio door because I wanted to mainly stop flies from entering the house when the patio door was opened. About 2 hours after setting it up, I was excited because I could see that it was starting to attract some flies (it is quite stinky, by the way). 24 hours later is was clearly doing its job based on the number of flies that had found their way into the container. After 48 hours I decided i needed to relocate the container to a position farther away from the door because it was attracting more flies than it was catching. After a week in the new location, the container was about half-way filled with flies, but there were literally hundreds of flies still on the outside of the container. By this time it was obvious that they were breeding! There were so many flies & now the container was pretty much filled with flies, so I took it down to get ready to dispose of it. Remember when I said I had propped the upper lid open with a piece of cardboard? Don't do this unless you know for sure that you can easily remove it or you will not be able to seal the container to dispose! When I pulled it down from the hanger i had it on, the space between the upper & lower part of the lid was packed full of live flies! It was like a scene out of The Exorcist! The lid was covered with fly droppings & was so gross, i couldn't get the cardboard out & had to set the container in a small trash bag while it was still open & then place that in my large trash receptacle the night before trash pickup. After that barrel sat in the hot sun all morning waiting for pickup, my trash barrel smells like it had a decaying corpse in it for a month. I don't know if I will EVER get that smell out & since my HOA requires that I store my barrels in my garage, this is a real issue.I wish I had gotten some pictures, but i was way too nauseated by the experience to think about that.Moral of this story...it works really well for capturing flies, but turns into a breeding space & before you know it, you have created a much larger problem. Within a day or two of taking it down & disposing of it, I have seen only a few flies out there.