Black Flag Disposable Fly Trap, Attracts All Major Fly Species , 12 Pack

I purchased a similar product from a local department store and ordered these Black Flag fly traps from Amazon. I wanted to see which one would be the best one to keep these flies away from our house and stop them from hovering all around our chickens and ducks. We’ve had so much rain that we’ve been overrun with flies for the first time since we bought our little mini farm. Love the rain for the garden, don’t get me wrong. But the flies! Yuck! Both of the fly traps really work! The one from the store you have to cut the plastic in order to fill the product with water and mix in the powder that attracts the flies. This one, you don’t cut. You simply pull up and open the top enough to add the water and mix in the powder. Much better. The next big difference is in the odor. Because the other product must be cut in order to add the water and mix the powder, there is a definite area for odor to escape. I could smell that horrible distinctive odor from about 100 feet away. My husband kept thinking it was the new chickens that we added to the flock until I told him to go smell that bag hanging in the coop. I remember my dad hanging these bags when I was a little girl, and it is an odor that you just don’t forget. These Black Flag, on the other hand, do not smell offensive unless you put your nose up close and/or squeeze them to check and see how many flies are in the solution! So if you don’t want to smell it, above all, don’t squeeze the bag. In fact, just don’t touch it once it’s hung until you’re ready to dispose of it. lol The last thing that is different than the one from the store (which was over $2 more per fly trap than these, by the way) is that the one from the store does not come with a tie to hang up the bag like these do. The only thing you need to start using this fly trap is the water! It’s been a wonderful, not having flies follow us into the house. It’s been amazing not having them all over the chicken coop. I would definitely recommend this product and have purchased more.

I got tired of having flies come into my house and garage when I open the door to come in. Also, I'm tired of seeing and having to wash the fly crap off of all of my siding, window frames and everything else these nasty pest land on and leave their droppings. I purchased a couple of these traps to see if they would work. The trap is easy to activate and install. Just unscrew the top plug...it doesn't come out so don't force it out. Add water and fill to the line on the side of the bag. Unwrap the white wire tie from the top cap and attach one end to the top cap and the other end to wherever you are going to hang it on. To draw flies away, I placed mine away from the house and garage but close enough to the entrance doors to be effective at drawing them away from the doors. The first day they were put out they didn't do to much and I couldn't smell anything at the time. The second day started attracting the flies and there was a slight smell by there was some wind. On the third day the trap had about an inch thick of flies in the trap and a little more of a smell but the wind was light. I think that some of the smell maybe the dead flies decomposing...again, maybe. By the fifth day there was more of a stench but the wind was calm and not blowing like the previous days. Also there were maggots in the bag. The wife says she can smell the traps and to her they stink, but they're not that bad to me. Of course, I did not put them inside any structures and only outside away from the house but close enough to attract the flies away from the entrance doors. I have noticed a definite reduction of flies near the house and none near the entrance doors but of course a lot of flies at the traps. Even though these do smell some in my opinion, but they work very well I will buy more and use them...but that's just me.

I hung this in my patio because as the weather started to heat up I started getting a few flies and didn't want them getting in my apartment when my dog takes forever to come inside. Boy did this thing work! It worked so well that it started attracting all the flies nearby to come to my patio. Luckily the fly trap was catching them all, but I started noticing my patio smelled like poop. At first, I thought it was people who live in my complex not picking up their dog poop, but when I didn't see any dog poop nearby realized it was the fly trap smelling like that because it was filled with dead flies. I mean it was FILLED with dead flies. I think the more dead flies it held, the more it stank, and therefore the more flies it attracted. I recommend maybe hanging more than one at a time to handle the additional flies it eventually attracts, or plan to change it often. Like, once a week. Because I only had mine up for a couple weeks until I couldn't stand the smell.

My daughter has gotten some of these for around her/our house because of a few neighbors the have chickens and we get lots of flies . We also have other farms in our area so we get lots of horse flies which bite and having small children that basically live outside in the summer we need fly traps . So she had gotten some and so did I ,well first they are so easy to put in and come with a long twist tie to hang them up or a hook to use a different hanger . We put one on her porch which has a awning and not really where the children play and I put one near my dog poop can which is hooked on a tree ,well the one under a awning is doing awesome but the one hanging on a tree did awesome for a bit until we had a few days of down pour rain ,which is due to too much water so now have to find a different area to hang another one . But the one that was covered my daughter noticed maggots inside the bag and there is not a lot of flies in it as of yet so hopefully they don't turn into flies and get out . We shall see but fur fast removal of flies it is awesome as long as the bag is hung in place out of the rain ,as for the smell it isn't that bad compared to the smell of the neighbor's chickens .