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SpringStar - Kitchen Fruit Fly Trap | Lawn & Patio

by SpringStar

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FEATURES

SpringStar's spider trap is an effective way to catch house spiders without the use of poisons or pesticides.
Certified green, pesticide-free product.
Safe to use around kids, pets and food
Catches pesky fruit flies, two traps per box

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
SpringStar's fruit fly trap is an excellent way to trap fruit flies that invade your home. There are no poisons or pesticides needed to accomplish this, just our unique and innovative trap. The patented lure attracts them into the trap with a combination of food grade scents. Once in the trap, they cannot get out. Safe to use around the house.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 8 reviews)

Didn't work at all by James Ward (Denver, CO USA)

1 Stars
November 08, 2009
This thing didn't work at all. Nothing caught. Fruit flies are still buzzing around my head.

Works OK (for a while), but you could do better by David C. Filmer (Portland, Oregon USA)

2 Stars
November 08, 2009
What you get is two McCormick's spice jars (exact same jars as used for spices) and two packets of bait. Add water and they will attract fruit flies, for about two weeks, when the bait will grow a thick, spongy greenish-white fungus. There is no poison involved - the fruit flies enter the spice jar through the holes, being attracted by the scent of the bait, but once they enter they are not smart enough to figure out how to get out, and eventually drown. About a week after I bought these traps, I used some apple cider vinegar and set the bottle aside. I noticed that many fruit flies were attracted to the bottle, where some vinegar had dribbled. The vinegar bottle was only a few inches away from the spice-bottle traps, so apple cider vinegar must be very appealing to fruit flies, as many flies ignored the trap and were attracted to the vinegar bottle instead. So I made my own simple and inexpensive trap by taking a small jar, punching a few holes in the top (about the diameter of a pencil) and adding apple cider vinegar. It works GREAT (as good as the commercial trap), and the vinegar does not spoil or grow fungus, so it lasts a LONG time. And, the acid of the vinegar will actually dissolve the fruit flies (after about 12 hours), so it doesn't make this nasty mess. I give two stars (instead of one) because it works as described, but I would not recommend it to anyone.

This product works by BooksToLearnFrom (NJ United States)

5 Stars
November 04, 2009
I read reviews for all of the fruit fly remover products that I could find before making a choice. I decided to buy 2 products, the Terro 2500 fruit fly trap (http://www.amazon.com/Terro-2500-Fruit-Fly-Trap/dp/B002EJLLEE/) and the SpringStar - Kitchen Fruit Fly Trap (http://www.amazon.com/SpringStar-Kitchen-Fruit-Fly-Trap/dp/B000E3BZQ6/). If I matters, I used Dawn dish washing soap with this product. For whatever reason, this product requires you to add liquid soap. They arrived today (11/3/09). Being who I am, I put one of each in the kitchen, one on the floor next to the trash can and the other on the window sill. I did put 2 or 3 drops of the Terro 2500 product in the trash can. Within the first 3 hours of having these products out, a little over half of all of the fruit flies were in one of these jars instead of flying around the kitchen. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I think I had more fruit flies then prior people that posted, but I could be wrong. I checked back about 4 hours later and the majority of the remaining fruit flies were in the jars also. Yippee! Both of these products worked for me.

Works great, if maintained... by J. Houser

5 Stars
October 31, 2009
These will catch a lot of flies if you tweak them every so often. The problem is that the awful smelling powder likes to settle and leave you with a very lightly scented trap (which means the flies are not as interested in it). I've found that if I swirl the liquid around in mine every so often, they are a lot more effective. This also prevents a really gross skin from forming on the surface of the liquid making them essentially useless. I had to take the tops off of mine because again they prevented the smell from getting out and attracting the flies. Not that my condo now smells like a dumpster mind you -- you can only really smell it if you stick your nose close to the trap. The flies however can smell it just fine. I believe with swirling the liquid to prevent the aforementioned skin, I can get around 1-2 weeks on one bag of lure. (I've been refilling mine with the lures that are also sold on Amazon.) Pros: * catches a lot of flies * competitively priced to similar type lures * works way better than the banana in a glass, vinegar in a glass, and all the other stupid home remedies I tried first * the cats don't have any interest in playing with, or drinking from the traps * my scented dish soap didn't seem to detract from the smell of the lure Cons: * the smell is awful when you are first filling the traps * the included top does not allow the smell to get out, and it also makes it confusing for the flies trying to get in * requires maintainance if you want good results and a decently long life for your trap SpringStar - Fruit Fly Lures

Works great! by V. Hartman

5 Stars
July 15, 2009
Within a few days all the fruitflies were gone and they haven't come back. No complaints!

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