These glue traps work much better than I expected. Just recently we've been having problems with insects getting in the house. Originally, I thought they would be useless since they don't have any lure. When I first put these out at night, the next morning I had nothing. I will say I thought the product was no good. Patience my friends. Boy did they catch a bunch of insects. I've caught beetles, roaches, fruit flies, and others I can't identify. The most I caught were fruit flies. I buy too much fruit I guess. I break them apart into three traps and I placed them around the perimeter of my house, especially in the corners. Next time I purchase these, I plan on buying many more. I'll eventually use them all. Non-toxic and works great!
I am always looking for better ways to get rid of pests. I use a lot of those toxic sprays (like Raid, Hot Shot, etc.), and I have pretty good luck with them except for how I have to leave that part of the house for hours lest I breathe in the poison of it. Also, I have to spray a lot, I go through a bottle really fast, and I have to spray everywhere to see an effect. And I'm always afraid the chemical ingredients in the spray are going to damage things. I swear the spray discolored my tile floors a few years ago. I like these boxes because they're so much less noxious than the sprays. I just leave them out and in the morning see what I have caught. I didn't catch any the first night, but I changed its location to farther back behind the fridge rather than just under the open space of the sink, and I got two small roaches the second night. They're easy to construct. You make a “house,” but which they mean just a triangle. You take the film off the sticky bottom and put one of the circular pills that attract the roaches in the center and then fold the two sides together and latch it; it's not hard. There are all these other bends in the side of the cardboard though, and I don't know what those are for. Anyway, I don't get fancy, I just make a triangle. Once, I didn't even close it, just let the sides flop together, and that was still fine.
This set comes with six traps (six “houses” and six pills). That's not a lot. I'm not sure you're supposed to just leave one out for very long. Once I caught something one night, I had to throw it away, of course, and put out another one, so technically you could use all of these in a week. I wish the packs came with like twenty. Six is not enough. I hate the illustrations of cockroaches on the cover of this box. Just a picture of a roach makes me nauseous. I hate bugs so much that sometimes when I see them in my house, I just sigh and leave the room, because I am too scared of them touching me to try to smash them! I also hate that when the box has done its work and caught you a roach, you then have to pick it up and throw it away. I am always afraid the roaches are still alive and going to come unstuck in the shaking around and then escape. They didn't, but I am still convinced that they might! And they were alive, so it was freaky to have to pick them up when they were struggling and then I threw them in the trash outside but maybe they got free and unstuck from the glue. I will never know. They did work, though. I like them as a backup to my spray. I will use the spray and these traps, or use these traps when I feel like the spray isn't working well enough or catching them all.
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