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Great trap! Reusable!
So I have had this about a year now.. and I must say, the "reusable" aspect of this trap is getting harder and harder to bear. This trap is a fly MURDERER. And it is up to you to bury the bodies. That is the part this is extremely hard to deal with, but I do, because I am "thrifty". Once the flies are dead, they don't just happily fall out into a little garbage bag coffin. The water-based lure turns them into a disgusting mush. Female flies lay eggs while trapped and their white slippery babies dig through the corpses of their cousins and grandpas until they too die, leaving trails of nastiness everywhere they go. Once it is full, I just hide the trap in a corner of the shed and think happy thoughts until I am relatively certain the flies have passed on AND the water has dried up. At this point I can dump the dried out husks of the fly family reunion, however there are HUGE chunks of masticated fly parts still stuck to walls and the floor that you have to use water to spray off (or maybe your fingers if you are a complete creep). The smell returns. The flies return to mush. And you get through it as quickly as possible before the ghosts of the little bastards escape and haunt your nightmares for the next eight weeks.
The trap itself is holding up just fine after being in the backyard for a year other than the white cover for the top cracked and was thrown away. The trap still works without it. I have filled and emptied this things 3 times, and every time I am endlessly impressed by the death and carnage it wreaks while at the same time endlessly depressed in the knowledge that I must deal with that carnage myself. Because I am thrifty. And I don't want to buy a new trap each time. So I re-use. And re-use. And re-use.
Until the mushy fly ghosts haunt my nightmares for eternity.
December 2016 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase