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Bugs Will Stick Around Mar 18, 2009
By Paul A. Seifer
I have a greenhouse and aphids are often inevitable. Just take a few large yellow drinking cups and coat them with Tangle-Trap. Then place near the infestation and they will be covered with adult aphids in no time. And once they land, there is no getting away [you can witness it yourself]. I prefer it over chemical pesticides. Tangle-Trap works!
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Deer Flies, you are toast! Jul 30, 2010
By Audes
We live in an area where we are swarmed with deer flies every year! Literally you will have 10-15 bouncing off your head at one time. You can't enjoy the nice weather in the spring! So, i searched and found a solution. As strange as it sounds, it is a blue cup attached to a hat with the Tangle Foot all over it. My husband was outside mowing for one hour and had around 30-40 stuck to the cup! Yes, it is the grossest thing ever! But, it is so satisfying, in a disturbing way, to have one of those nasty things flying around your head....buzz, buzz, buzz...stuck!! The worst thing is if it is buzzing on the hat! But, if you have this problem, you know what i am talking about! Deer flies BITE! and hurt, then itch. The cup also attracts black flies, an added bonus. The only thing is DON'T get this on your fingers! it is sticky! It lasts a really long time on the hat or whatever you put it on. We've accidently left the hats outside in the sun, wind, rain, and they are still sticky! Wonderful product! Too bad it isn't sold in stores around here, with shipping it was brutal!!!!! But, worth the price to have some peace in our yard. We do wonder what the neighbors think though.... If you want to know how to make the hat, we did it this way: and old baseball hat, a blue (has to be BLUE) solo cup or painted small flower pot, twisty ties, and a paper hole puncher. Make holes in the hat, two horizontal ones to stick the twisty ties through; holes around the cup; set the cup on the hat; line up the holes; stick the twisty tie up through the bottom of the hat through the hole in the cup; tie on; cover with Tangle Foot and you are GOOD TO GO! When you want to take the cup off.... CUT the twist ties and have it in a bag or over the trash. Try not to get the Tangle Foot on the hat! And watch low trees when mowing!
listen triangle trap brush on sticky works, really works. May 21, 2012
By Syrique
you really can get rid of bed bugs with sticky trap, it's the last thing to use and the last you'll see any bedbugs. But you have to do a few things. First, spray and enclose your mattress in a full zip mattress cover. Second, spray and enclosure box-spring in a full zip cover. Spray your entire bed, every area and set off one or two Smokey bombs over a two days. Now apply sticky trap generously to all four legs of your bed. You can now sleep tight and the bed bugs won't bite. monitor the other areas where they might have taken up residence and apply the brush on sticky trap to ensure they can't get in or out ever again.
The deer fly trap WORKS !!!! May 16, 2012
By mattyd
When I was a kid we used to call them "sand flies", but now I understand that was very local to the area where I lived. Sand flies are generally midges and no-see-ums.
Anyway, deer flies have always seemed to have a special fondness for me. Now I know that's because I was a few inches taller, and a little more active than the people I was tromping through the woods with.
A couple months ago, my daughter and I started having these walk-run dates, twice a week, at Magnolia Plantation, which is a beautiful historic site outside of Charleston, SC. When we started, it was still rather cool, and there were no problems. When it started warming up, I would get one or two of these things swarming at me, but not a real problem. Then one day, my daughter suggested we take another route, away from the Audubon Swamp Walk, around the far other side of the grounds.
What ensued ... well, my daughter characterized it as "like something from Alfred Hitchcock." Never seen so many. Me running and smacking my own head with my neoprene hand weights to get them off me. Blood dripping from my hands, arms and neck. YIKES!!!!
So, I did some research....
A professor in Florida has studied these things and developed this trapping method that is very effective.
1) Bright blue. Black and yellow run a distant second. The color attracts their "targeting system."
2)High up. It has to do with their attack tactic. They scope you, then they rise up and come down from above and behind.
3)In motion. You can't hang something on a pole and catch them. They target things in motion.
4)Tangle-trap. Works like fly paper. They go for the high, bright blue moving thing, and get stuck!
So, we did the swamp that Tuesday, and by Friday, I was ready. A little scared, but ready.
I had bought a regular construction hard-hat, spray painted it bright blue, and coated it with Tangle-trap. I posted two images of the results. Fifty-five deer flies, no bites. One did land on my shirtsleeve, and actually bit a little hole in it, but my daughter saw it and slapped it off before I got bitten.
I have since worn it on the swamp route, and I caught about 20. No bites.
Some tips and comments:
- Try to get something that is already the right color. Painting is a bit of a hassle, and when I cleaned the flies off, the paint peeled and buckled in several places, and I had to repaint. I looked for a blue hardhat, and I've seen them before, but white was all they had at Lowe's when I was there for this.
- Cleanup is okay with a citrus-based hand cleaner. I used Fast Orange Pumice Hand Cleaner - Half-Gallon, and it gets the flies off, and most of the sticky off your hands(if you get some on you--use rubber gloves, though). It does leave the helmet a bit sticky, but not enough to catch flies with.
-You can avoid cleanup buy using something disposable. Those plastic blue disposable party cups from the grocery store are the right color. You could use safety pins attach one upside-down to the top of a white baseball cap, and that ought to work well. Because there were so many, I wanted a large surface, so I got the hard-hat.
-This stuff is hard to find. I went to Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal Mart, and the little hardware store near my house. Nobody had ever heard of it. I went to the manufacturer's web site and used the store locator: closest store was about 150 miles upstate from me. Hooray for Amazon!
-Apparently, the manufacturer is not aware of this use for their product! No mention of it on their website or on the product packaging. Someone needs to clue them in, so they can get some guerrilla marketing going on. Farmers, landscapers, hikers, hunters, fishers...anybody who spends much time in the outdoors in the Southeast is a potential customer.
To learn more, I guess Google it, and look for the Florida professor. His is a ".edu" site, at the University of Florida, meaning that this info the result of actual academic research by the guy. He lays out a couple of other methods, also -- like upside down buckets mounted on a truck to troll through repeatedly and eliminate the problem in an area.
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Anyway, so now I get the nice visit with my beautiful daughter, the blissful joy a brisk morning walk through an area of exquisite natural beauty -- egrets, herons, rabbits, ducks, turtles, sweet smell of gardenia here, elegant beauty of marsh iris there, stately live oaks dangling Spanish moss across the path...so much beautiful flora and fauna. And, as a bonus, I also get the cool, vengeful gratification of knowing I'm helping to commit genocide the whole time!!! :) Remorse?! Every single one of the flies you see on that hardhat was trying to take a bite of me when it got stuck.
Now if someone could just come up with something for the gators, which are more numerous and more active every time we go...
Tangle-Trap Apr 21, 2012
By Debra C. Chatham
This is a good product. It traps the icky horseflys, flies, and gnats. Apply the sticky stuff to a black ball hang it in your barn and the pesky biting flies stick!
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