Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This item works fairly well. However.... I hung one in my kitchen, at the window over my sink. I kept looking in the cabinet under the sink, the kitchen garbage can, even my kitchen drawers, for the source of the smell. I swear to you, I was convinced something had died in my kitchen. I scrubbed the heck out of my sink, my counter, and my floor. I poured vinegar and lemon juice down the drain several times. I washed my window inside and out, and I washed the sill. I bought a new dish drainer. After a couple of weeks of going nuts looking for the source of the smell, I had to remove the fly trap from where it was hanging in order to take down the curtain to wash it. Holy mother of.....yes, the fly trap was the source of the smell. Thank goodness I didn't spill it. I would have had to sell the house. While I was gagging and dry heaving, I wondered why the manufacturer made these things smell so bad. Then it hit me. Flies are attracted to rotting corpses and rotting food. And that, ladies and gentlemen and others, is what these fly traps smell like. Rotting flesh. Exactly like rotting flesh. How does the manufacturer make these traps smell like rotting flesh? I really, really, don't want to know. I immediately put the trap out on the patio, close to the door, hoping that the flies trying to get into my house would stop at the trap first. Yes, you can smell it when on the patio, and going in and out of the door. You can bet that if you have a dog, the dog will be in this stuff like...well, like flies on stink. Keep it away from pets, and kids, it might be dangerous for them. I'm not going out there to look at the label. You'll have to go to the website yourself to check out warnings. On the downside, friends won't be stopping over for lunch on the patio. On the upside, friends won't be stopping by for lunch on the patio. And don't put one of these traps on your front porch. Your mail carrier will undoubtedly think that that smell is you, and he'll call 911. If you're not home, the cops will break down your door, expecting to find you, lying prone on the floor, covered in...that's right...flies. Your neighbors, without asking you directly or offering to help, will point and stare and gossip for months. You'll be tempted to go over and tell them that that smell is the last person who minded your business instead of their own. But don't do it. The cops will come back. Anyway, I thought the package should've contained a warning, like "smells like dead things". Or the slightly more subtle Eau du Putrefaction. But I can see how that might not be an effective marketing campaign. So I'm still on the lookout for effective fly control. Meanwhile, I'm using my $1.00 fly swatters that I got at Walmart. I have one in every room. Gets me out of my chair. And my right arm is getting pretty buff. Which looks ridiculous considering the condition the rest of me is in. Things will probably continue this way until, one day, the post man will smell the smell and call 911. The cops will break in and find me rotting in my chair, fly swatter still in hand, covered in...that's right....flies.