RESCUE! VisiLure® TrapStik for Wasps, Mud Daubers, Carpenter Bees

I have tried every gimmick & spray .. you name it I have tried it. The wasp in the country are really attracted to this. I have been using this product for several years now and it works great. I hang it under the patio out of any rain. The wasp love the bright color. They are easy to assemble and last a long time. I do change it out mid summer because it gets full of wasp. When the wasp see their buddies stuck and try to help them and WHAM they stuck too. 👍

I have been buying these for several years now... I just ordered 10 for this year. At under $6 on sale when i bought, they are a DEAL as I usually have to pay $10 each (but they are WORTH 10 each!!!!). Hang these BEFORE the wasps show up in spring, in a clearly visible spot, high up near the ceiling of your barn, carport, porch, or garage, and walk away. They will catch most of the wasps BEFORE they build nests and breed. You only do this once a year, I remove last year's traps as I install the new ones each spring. The first year I only had 3 traps I got out of the Jeffers sale barn for like $5 each... I was astonished at how effective they were. 2nd year I bought 6 and hung one every other rafter (so, 24' apart) under both barns, and again, astonished at how effective they were. The 2nd year in a row using these, we noticed a BIG reduction in the number of wasps even getting caught on the traps, and we had maybe 3 wasp nests show up all summer on our entire farm. They were small and easily killed. 3rd year continued this trend, we had markedly fewer wasps and dirt daubers. I have not even *seen* a carpenter bee in 2 years!! Although full disclosure, I was already using a dozen homemade carpenter bee traps between the 2 barns, and they were pretty under control already. This year we increased from our usual 6 traps, to 10, to allow us extra to hang under porches and inside the hay storage area, since they were on sale so cheap. I will be buying these every year for the rest of my life. Seriously. Gonna hang one in my window at the nursing home some day... PS- to the manufacturer- I LIKE the new style bird guards you came up with since I bought last year's traps!!! Time will tell, but they LOOK like they'd be more effective while also not blocking any of the sticky surface. 2 years ago I just left the guards off... and accidentally murdered a little bird. AND a bat!!! :( So the guards are a must, thanks for continuing to look for a better way!

So, I just set this trap up last night and have been watching it kick-butt all day! I followed recommendations and didn't add the bird guard as it didn't seem like a risk on my porch and seemed like it would be more effective without it. I've had yellow jackets building a nest in my wall on my front porch this summer, which is also the only door in and out of the apartment. After several failed poisoning attempts because the nest was too deep in the wall, I followed professional advice to place traps outside the nest entrance to help reduce or eliminate the colony and to make it easier to treat the wall itself. I was concerned, however, about having a trap next to our only door, but I figured the nest itself is more dangerous and will grow worse as it gets later in the season, and there didn't seem to be any other easy stress-free solution to getting at the nest in the wall. This TrapStik was recommended as the best for both placing around human activity and for also being able to be placed close to nests. Well, halfway through the first day, there are already 50 yellow jackets stuck to this thing! It is no doubt doing its job. However, every time a yellow jacket gets stuck, it releases under-threat pheromones, which causes others to swarm around it to try to help it out. And sometimes some of them get stuck in that process, but mostly there are just a bunch of angry yellow jackets flying around the porch. I did extensive research on different traps and I wish I would've had a warning about that effect when placing this. So, for that reason I gave this 4 stars. It works as directed, but with risk. I think I'll have to remove it late tonight when the rest of the colony has retreated to the nest, and see about exploring other options. Which might mean more of these but getting creative about location with an apartment balcony/front door situation.

To watch insects of all types, good, bad and ugly, get stuck and try to free themselves was heartbreaking. I saw a carpenter bee get stuck, and after hours and hours of suffering, it freed itself by ripping its own legs off. It landed on the chair below and just sat there - still moving, but not going anywhere. The second day it was up, I decided enough was enough. A lizard (anole) got caught on the goopy wall and was laying completely flat, unable to move at all. I felt like the worst human being on the planet seeing it motionless except for its eyes. I wondered how much terror it must have been in. I immediately went online and find out how to free creatures from this material and saw that you can use vegetable oil. So I poured it all around him and used an old toothbrush to gently rub it around the stuck areas. He was finally able to free himself and run off. After that, I wrapped the device in a plastic bag and threw it away. This product works, it's just too much of a catch-all. It's painful to watch so many creatures get stuck and suffer. I will find another way to take care of the carpenter bees. If If you can live with the long suffering and eventual death of anything that touches the sticky material, then it's probably going to be something that will work great for you. It's just not for me. Just my opinion here. I realize there aren't too many ethical options for this sort of thing.

Works well, lots of wasps and hornets were caught in my garden. Please in on the plump tree. But it is pricey. Very quickly became full of insects and had to discard.

The trap caught two wasps and a fly on the first day. I had tried liquid bait traps for weeks previously without success.

I bought the first generation of these a few years ago and they absolutely were the best at attracting and eliminating wasps and hornets. Especially the big bad black scary ones. Problem was that small birds were also attracted to them and this thing is so sticky it was even capturing birds so they were discontinued. I was so happy to see that they came up with the cage system to keep the birds off and were able to bring the item back to life. My only complaint is that they are not cheap, but they do work and I will be buying them again this year.

I bought these to get rid of Carpenter Bees. Haven’t caught any and only a couple flies stuck to the sticky sides. It is easy to put together and easy to clean because of no bugs.

je l'ai essayer un peu tard dans l'année au début de l'automne froid il n'y avais pas beaucoup d'insectes il n'y a pas eu d'insectes coller sur le produit alors je ne peux pas dire si c'est vraiment bon Je pourrai mieux l'essayer l'été prochain c'est pourquoi j'ai mis 4 étoiles