Does the trap attract more flies to come because of the smell? I don't want to necessarily be the fly catcher for the whole neighborhood.
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I am pretty sure the smell attracts more flies than you would normally see in the area where you hang the trap.The good thing is that the trap lures them so they don't fly near your windows or your patio table.
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No, I don't think it attracts them from a distance. Just in the immediate area.
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I am pretty sure the smell attracts more flies than you would normally see in the area where you hang the trap. The good thing is that the trap lures them so they don't fly near your windows or your patio table.
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I think it does attract flies from all of my neighbor's backyards. I wish everyone on the block had one of these. I don't think this is actually a problem because it does trap them very effectively and I do not see any flies other than right at the trap.
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I'm just a customer who bought this. In my opinion you should be able to use apple cider vinegar to kill the flies. My fly trap status worth 30 flies in it at all times.
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When they're full & believe me you'll know it by the smell. We were amazed at how many flies these contraptions caught. I mean REALLY amazed?? The larger ones in particular. I'm talking thousands over a several weeks...
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I've used 2 Flies Be Gone traps so far and have not seen any dragon flies or bees in them. (and I would stop using it if it killed bees!!!) I don't think the smell that it emits would attract a bee.
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I agree with bird class. The more flies inside the trap, the more flies are attracted to the trap. It can smell pretty bad, so I keep it a good 20 feet from the house. I usually discard the trap when it is about 3/4 full. I left one hanging too long and the plastic bag ripped away from the plastic top and fell on the ground, spewing dead flies and stench.
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Don't know if they are horse flies but in the city we get ginormous flies that fly really fast, make a high whining noise, and are really aggressive. I call them Razor Flies becuz of the sound. And they LOVE the smell of this trap. We have a lot less of them since we put up the traps.
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This may attract some flies from your next door neighbors, but not the neighborhood. Also, this should be hung approximately 30 - 45 ft from your home and the infested area.
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I think so - I plan on throwing the whole mess in a plastic shopping bag, tying it in a double knot and then disposing of it and good riddance. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and I haven't seen an appreciable decrease in flies around here...call it the end of a disgusting experiment. Onward.
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I believe so. It attracts all that we have around here and some of them are large, biting flies. I assume they are horse flies. Try it and see. Just follow the instructions and get out of the way. Mine started catching flies in under an hour.
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There is a charcoal disc filter that fits in the lid. I figured this was more for odor control than any barrier to fruit flies. Perhaps the ones that got in there went in with the banana peels but there don't seem to be any hovering around the bin. It could be the filter blocks some of the attraction of the contents from the flies. Also, I do give it a daily dose of coffee grounds. That probably helps.
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Oh you know. It fills up completely (at least ours did). It starts to smell too because of all the flies. It took us only a few days to fill up a bag. We have an alley off the back of our yard though, so flies love the trash cans etc.
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Yes the odor is not for in closed areas like a garage or near your house like on a patio. The point is to attract the flies away from inhabitants. The flys go where the trap goes. Put it away from the house.
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In my backyard, the trap has caught only flies. All sizes of flies. Nothing else, but hundreds offlies.
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Oh no, yuck. They are stinky in order to attract flies and once flies fly in and die it gets even stinkier. I put it about 30 feet from our house in the backyard at beginning of spring when flies are hatching and have to change it a month later due to smell (occupancy). They work to keep the fly population down, we don't have nearly as many anymore as used to be around here.
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Yes, the trap I have in the kitchen does great with fruit flies and rug bugs. I even caught a real fly which surprised me, because he got stuck, flew off and then came back. I have a second unit in the basement crawl space and that one is filled with little gnatty bugs. You will need to order extra fly paper, as the unit only comes with one sheet. In the crawl space, I also hung fly paper from the hardware store next to the light and that filled up with the little gnats as well. Good luck.
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I buried mine in my garden, but other options might be to bury it deep in your compost pile or empty the trap into a bag and then dump into your yard debris recycle bin right before pick-up. (If your trash/recycling company allows you to add "food scraps" to your recycling.) One warning - new flies are attracted by the smell of the bait, so be prepared for flies to swarm around the empty trap until you get a chance to clean it and to be very interested in where ever you dump the old bait. (Burying it might sound like over-kill, but even a few inches of dirt seemed to make the new flies lose interest and go elsewhere.)
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This would not do much good outside on a patio; for that order the Rescue Reusable Fly Trap, also available on Amazon. Set it about about 25 feet from your patio, and it draws flies, leaving your patio fly-free.