Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Well, let me start off by telling you a little bit about WHY I bought this product. We have three dogs - a staple of our family - and they can come and go as they please through the doggie door that I installed leading to our back patio. Among the other dogs, we have a GSP that will absolutely eat the face off of anything unknown to him that pokes its poor, unassuming head through that flap. Our GSP is paid handsomely as our head of security. With the convenience of the doggie door, we have the portal for the dreaded black house fly, but only during the summer months. Summer is when we entertain our friends and friends of our children, so you can imagine the horror on the faces of our guests and my wife when there is a small battery of these nasty maggot layers buzzing around in our kitchen. Our best efforts to keep the kitchen as clean as Private Joker's latrine were futile in the battle against these incessant, nasty SOBs. We actually have 3 fly swatters in the kitchen armory. One is electric - it zaps the life out of these putrescence seeking scavengers. It's actually kinda fun - there a flash of plasma, followed by a plume of ozone and smoke - if you listen closely, you can hear them cry out as the life rushes out of their miserable bodies and towards the darkest depths of Mordor, or whatever hell these things go to . I actually keep a sharpie close by my electric swatter. In sort of a WWII fashion, I make a mark for every fly soul I steal with this thing. I have filled up one side completely, and have switched to the other side, just like a 101st Airborne paratrooper would have done with his folding stock .30 Carbine in the European Theater of WWII. So, the two manual swatters serve as a standby, and are quite handy. There are days when I kill over 10 flies in my kitchen. No matter how clean we keep things, every time one of our fur babies makes another trek through the yard and into the house, one of these despicable insects infiltrates its way into our sacred safe zone. Time to bring out the big guns. Occasionally, I'll use bug spray to inflict a little more pain and misery on these hovering enemies of mine, but it's not the best solution. Fly paper just didn't work, and is unsightly in the house. I needed something more. I wasn't ready to break out the flamethrower or tactical nukes, but I did the next best thing. I bought this product. The Captivator fly trap arrived a day or two after ordering (thank you, Prime), and I immediately tore the box open to get a gander. I was like Ralphie at Christmas time... I read the destructions and proceeded to pull out the sealed package of mystery death powder that came with this kit. I thought "How bad could this stuff be?" The label said is contained putrescible egg solids. I'm not sure if there's a word stronger than putrescible, but there needs to be. I could smell this stuff through the plastic, before I opened the package. My hopes were high, and an evil, Gricnh-like grin crept it's way onto my face. I hung this thing up outside - adjacent to my back door (the one with the doggie door) and added the water and powder as directed. Great - Wait and see what happens... Well, brother, let me tell you something- this things brings em in from the next county. In 2 days, I had a hundred or more flies that met their watery fate by drowning in the temptation of putrescence that lured them in in the first place. I was happy. It was working. But, therein lies the problem for me. Yes, it was working, but it was working TOO well. Not only was I getting flies in the vicinity of my back door, I was also attracting flies form the next county, Texas, and California. Holy crap. If I was in the business of collecting dead flies, I'd be doing great! The problem was that this thing was hanging right by my back door. It stinks, but really brings the flies in. So many, in fact, that MORE flies were making their way into my kitchen. It took me about a week to realize that I needed to move this thing to a spot AWAY from my back door - closer to the back of the property. The intent was to catch them all before they had the chance to wreck my sanity by contaminating my kitchen. In my bloodlust for taking the lives of these nasty creatures, I made the problem worse. So, once I moved this horrificly awesome fly death administrator to a spot away from my back door, my fly problem cleared up, and I was able to return to a peaceful sleep dreaming of being in sun-god robes on a pyramid with thousands of women screaming and throwing little pickles at me. In short, great product. Use it wisely, you should.