Home and Garden 14680 Starbar Captivator Fly Trap, (1.06 ounces or 30 grams)

The smell is unbearable. It wasn’t attracting flies in fact it is impossible to sit with the jar inside the room.

This is the best fly trap! Flies love the stinky smell and drawn to it. Last a long time, it can sit out on patio for months, you just add water when is low. We have bought these before and love how they work! We’ve used in a few different states we’ve lived in and work great. This fly trap catches a lot! One day we put it out and went out few hours later and I bet 20-30 flies inside it! Definitely worth the money! Pics posted are from 4 months use.

Can't believe how good this works, after one week it trapped hundreds of flies after two weeks it is full to the top! I feel like I've committed genocide! The only issue now is how do I empty it ready for new bait, I know it's going to stink and a lot of the flies are still alive!

This thing is great! We have 3 chickens that free roam in the garden and last year was a nightmare for flies, so I was determined not to have a repeat of that. Bought the trap in April and hung it from a tree. It took a while to get going but now that the warm weather is here there's a fresh layer of dead and dying flies in the trap every day. More importantly though, they're not buzzing all round the garden which means I can actually enjoy my space! Not sure about the smell that others have commented on but ours is currently odourless. That said, we haven't had to empty it yet... Edit: OK, now that it's nearly full the smell has become apparent. It's very strong and "stinky", but it's not something that's unbearable, and still better than having flies swarming all over the garden. I'd also advise to keep the water topped up regularly, which you can pour into one of the entrance holes in the lid. It quickly evaporates, and while it doesn't seem to reduce the effectiveness of the lure, the flies inside are lasting long enough to lay eggs and probably adding to the smell (and maggots can live in water, which isn't very nice to see!). I'm not looking forward to emptying it, but it's still worth the hassle for a usable garden.

We have backyard chickens and it is almost impossible to stay on top of sweeping all of the never ending chicken turds. If you have chickens you know what I mean. They poop nonstop. Ours eat tons of spinach and berries so they have liquid poops that flies will nest in. In the summer when it was hot we were constantly having flies inside from our dog going in and out and the back door being pushed open, and flies inside are disgusting. We tried to clean the poop daily, put diatomaceous earth on the poop immediately to dry it out, put up outdoor fly paper, etc. Nothing really helped at all. There were flies constantly on all of my plants, in the dirt, in the chicken coop despite regular cleanings, etc. so I bought this. I would highly suggest wearing disposable gloves when you fill it and to hang it securely high up enough that animals can’t get near it. We hung it at the top of our privacy fence, on a hook, as far away from our back door and garage as possible. Flies will be swarming around it and you might need to add extra water if you live somewhere hot or the water level doesn’t seem high enough to drown them after awhile. Even when ours was full of flies, I never noticed a terribly strong smell coming from it. The number of flies did die down quickly, though we did have to continue other preventive measures like cleaning up the chicken poop in the yard from them free ranging and keeping our coop clean. We also used Stall Dry and First Saturday Lime inside our coop and do the deep litter method, though we do scoop the poop tray beneath the roost where the hens poop at night every other day and put that old bedding in our yard waste because the poop builds up very quickly. It’s now winter time (we’re in the PNW and the winters are relatively mild.) We started having flies in our house again and I realized that the container was very full and a whitish layer was floating at the top that prevented the incoming flies from drowning, the container was almost totally full and it was time to replace it. I know you can buy new packets for the container, though attempting to clean it out was way more than I was willing to do and I really didn’t want my husband doing it and spilling it on himself, either. My husband very carefully, with gloves on, secured the container with the liquid/dead flies inside within multiple plastic bags so it couldn’t leak into our outdoor garbage can. I would suggest doing this away from your yard where your kids or pets play, our dog always tries to roll in stinky stuff so my husband did this at an abandoned lot since it’s easy to spill some of the stank. If you choose to clean the container out, you’re braver than me and I don’t have any tips. They are inexpensive enough and lasted us around 6 months so I think they’re worth just replacing entirely. If you have chickens, please don’t feed the dead flies to them. That is just disgusting and messed up to do to your hens. Flies are filthy creatures and I would never knowingly eat eggs that came from a chicken eating buckets of rancid, dead flies in stank juice. We would highly recommend this product if you have lots of dogs, chickens, horses or other animals that poop everywhere and attract flies. I saw some comments complaining that this product attracted all of the flies from the neighborhood. I didn’t find this to be the case and the flies In our yard quickly decreased after putting this product up.

I've had this fly trap for about 2 years now and it is 100% effective. In the height of summer it fills up in under a week. Holds an insane amount of dead flies. Keeps them away from the chickens. Heard a lot about refills. I've not bothered in ages. Empty the dead flies, leaving a small amount in there. Even the ones that don't come out is enough. Put fresh water in, and the smell is enough to start the cycle again. Fantastic.