Hot Shot Flying Insect Trap, Discreet, Hassle-Free Trap Attracts, Captures House and Fruit Flies, 24/7 Continuous Attraction, No Plug-in Or Electricity Needed, 6 Count 984ml Each

I bought these traps to put in my kitchen and bathrooms. In our kitchen, we tend to get fruit flies around our coffee machine. In the bathroom, we get them around the sinks, as they come out of the overflow drains and like to hang around my potted plants. These come in a 6-pack, which includes 6 small plastic cases and 6 single-use solution tubs. To setup, you take on plastic case, and one solution tub. Peel the sealed cover off of the solution tub, drop it into the case, and put the lid on the case. From there, you just place it in the area where you notice flying insects. The solution looks unremarkable, visually, but smells slightly of vinegar. After these had dried up, it looked somewhat goopy, but still smelled of vinegar. Putting a bit of water into the solution tub quickly reconstitutes the solution. Given this, I believe the solution is nothing more than vinegar, water, and soap, which is the recipe for a DIY fruit fly trap, but in a MUCH smaller scale. The first night I put these out, I caught a single fruit fly in the bathroom, which made me very hopeful that these were to solution to my problem. Unfortunately, these seem to be absolutely ineffective, as that first fruit fly I caught has been THE ONLY fruit fly I’ve caught, even though you can see them flying around these things. I’m not sure if the solution is too weak, too small amount, or just not an effective solution in the first place. Given that I’ve had these in place for months at this point, and have only caught one single fly, which I believe was a complete fluke, I have to come to the conclusion that these are a complete sham that do absolutely nothing, which the company probably knows, but still decides to cash in on people needing a real solution. Overall, these are a major disappointment, and I would not recommend these to anyone.

Flys were gone within 3 days.

This product is a complete disappointment. It’s basically just cheap dishwashing liquid mixed with water, and it doesn’t even do what it claims—flies aren’t attracted to it at all. Total waste of money. I would not recommend this to anyone. Please don’t buy it

Trap Doesn't Catch Flies & Spills Unavoidably! Have been using for over a month - haven't caught a single fly (but have other traps that catch smaller flies just fine). This Trap is really no different from small vinegar based fly traps, but is intended to catch larger flies. The flies are supposed to enter the top grid (should be attracted to the weak detergent mixture inside as it smells like weak vinegar which they like), and are supposed to fall into the dilute detergent mixture in the packet sitting inside, which would kill them. But not only did flies seem to be completely not attracted, unfortunately, but the packets are shaped such that you can't attach or remove the grid/lid, without one side of the detergent packet snaps on the legs of the lid, and spills as you open it. So you end up with much less liquid in the trap, which will dry out quickly. I will be trying out my own apple cider vinegar solutions to try to improve the attraction rate, and possibly will add a small amount of detergent, though that may not be required (will require testing), as there seems to be a real gap in the market for a small non-toxic liquid based trap like this, for larger flies (there are plenty of effective vinegar traps for the small flies already). These traps will be worthwhile if I can at lease reuse the casings ... but not sure I can even get that to work yet.

Trapped nothing in weeks of use. Way too easy to spill messy liquid. Will not buy again.

Absolutely useless. The little tubs that hold the liquid are made of the thinnest of plastic, and every single tub was warped, causing it to sit lopsided in the hard case. I spilled some liquid on my hands, and honestly, it just smells like pure vinegar. I mean, maybe there’s some sort of pheromone or chemical in there but it’s not effective. Every summer, the flies are so bad in my area. I’ve had these tubs sitting on my windowsills for three days now. I placed them there because that’s where a lot of the flies gravitate to, but it hasn’t caught a single one. Save your money, and invest in a good flyswatter. I suggest a metal one. Oh, and stay away from those little zapping paddles because I tried that too. All it did was knock the fly out for literally five seconds. Hardly enough time to finish the job before they regain their senses and fly away.

They did work good. I used a plastic empty water. Fill it with wine caught 10 as many

Works as described