Bug Ball Starter Kit - Biting Fly and Insect Trap, Pack of 2

Every June we have yellow biting flies that make it miserable to go outside. The past several years I have been buying beach balls and black paint at dollar tree then spraying adhesive on them. Then when it rained the black paint washed off. This is so worth it. Simply air it up, it comes with a needle to do that, and paint on the adhesive that comes with it. It has a little handle to put a rope through to hang. It’s reusable and so simple. Highly recommend

These absolutely do not work. The sticky stuff just runs down the ball in the heat, doesn't attract flies. Super messy to put fly sticky on. Doesn't work at all! Super disappointing and cant return due to i used all 4 bug balls and cant return used items without getting charged.

As someone who's been fighting Deer Flies for years, here's a tip: I used an old bird bath stand to place the ball, then coated it. Keep in mind folks, that deer flies love the color of Royal Blue. This I know to be fact; in fact I've tested different colors throughout the years. Deer Flies were swarming my royal blue gazing ball, so I moved the the inflatable ball, mounted in the bird bath stand next to the gazing ball. Also, keep in mind that deer flies won't normally attack in the shade, and they are attracted to movement, so I made a few trips across my yard in the direct sunlight to attract them, as I walked towards my trap, then, acted like I was being attacked. (Yes, I used myself as bait). When they see their insidious buddies attacking you, they join right in. My neighbors must think I've lost my mind, but the results are great!

I didn’t have the issues some people have with the sticky stuff. I washed the ball with dish soap and spread the sticky stuff on pretty easy. What I’m annoyed with is that it caught ONE yellow fly in the time I have had it. The rest flew right by it to bite me on the ankles. Seems well made and the sticky stuff is very sticky, but it says yellow flies right on the ball itself and they don’t seem to care much for it.

I have an access road for property I manage. There are thousands of biting flies, mostly deer flies with horse flies and green heads mixed in. As I drive down the road the swarm of flies builds and builds following my truck. I hung 4 balls. I stop my car next to each ball and watch the swarm land and get stuck. Drive to the next ball, stop for a minute. Repeat. If I do a few passes with my car, there are virtually no flies following me around and I could get out and do work without being in a massive swarm of biting flies. However, when you have as many flies as I do, the entire ball gets covered quickly. It’s a bit of work wearing gloves to scrape the ball clean and reapply fresh glue.

It’s been in my yard for 3 hours and it’s trapped 7 horse/deer flies. Working great.

Supplied sticky coating more greasy than sticky. watched several deer fly hit it , kind of slide around then fly off.

I caught exactly 0 horse flies (and 0 deer flies) with these balls. I hung them in 2 hot spots at our house about 150ft away from each other. Coated them compleyely in the adhesive they included (which qualifies as a full time job I'm sure) and waited. Caught a bunch of gnats, some livebugs, a handful of mosquitos... no flies, no horseflys, no deerflys. Nothing that actually mattered.

the catch em sticky coating adhesive is totally useless as it is not sticky at all. Only leaves an oily film on surface of the ball which cannot stick flies or any other insect. If you can find another adhesive that actually is sticky it probably may work.