Tanglefoot 300000665 Japanese Beetle Trap

I've tried 3 types of Japanese Beetle Traps and while they all worked ok, this one drew in and trapped the most beetles by about 2x. In Northern WI in July it fills up every day to the top. It's also the easiest to empty and is built of sturdy, fairly heavy plastic that looks like it will hold up.I've had it about 6 days as I write this and it's still filling up to the top 1 -2 times per day with beetles. I expected them to slow down after a day or so but they're still coming in and getting trapped.The people who warn about attracting them to your yard appear to be somewhat misinformed because previously the beetles were eating our apples tree's and raspberries in force for most of the summer. Now with the trap about 60 ft away (3 acre front lawn) they quickly find the trap and get stuck. There are few if any beetles on my apple tree's now.It's amazing that the trap keeps filling up about 2 times a day so I just dump them into soapy water by the thousands and my plants are doing fine now. Every full load of beetles appears to weigh about 350 grams or 3/4 lb. That's a lot of beetles that are removed from the local ecosystem and I'm sure it's helping the neighborhood too since they can fly a long way.I'm not worried about drawing them in to my neighborhood. They buzz around the trap for about 10 seconds and fall in.No problem. The only time it would be a problem is if you forget to empty the trap, if they fill it up and they simply don't fit then you end up with a big beetle ball and that can't be good. So check your trap line daily if necessary.

Trap and lure system is amazing. It does a terrific job of attracting beetles. Probably from several yards around. Swarms appear late morning and are present until an hour or two before sunset. HOWEVER, have a really good plan of how to handle the beetles after you catch them.We set out two traps after our elm tree and hollyhocks were decimated. We also sprayed the elm. Unfortunately, these traps work so well that they fill up several times per day. Overflowing. Multiple times per day. Beetles crawling out escaping.We drown the beetles soapy water, then drain them. Several buckets a day. One to two grocery sacks of wet rotting beetles per day. Gross. And these things STINK after a day or two. Our yard doesn't have an area we want to designate as a burial pit. Garbage comes weekly, but the flies come within hours. We are debating putting the traps away (after disposing of the lures) because they work too well. I'm not convinced we're helping our foliage as much as we are the entire neighborhood, and after seeing our traps, other neighbors have decided against putting out their own traps. Our local gardening center's master gardener recommends against traps because they attract additional beetles to your yard. Just some things to consider.We're hoping the robins change their diet from eating our beneficial earthworms to chowing on the beetles.

I started with two traps, thinking that would be the right number for the areas I'm trying to protect, but then read the trap should be 10 feet downwind. So, rather than move the trap when the wind changes, I have bought more traps.The instructions said to empty when half full, but by the time I get home from work the traps are full all the way up into the yellow top.I am having some difficulties emptying the traps, I don't have time to soak the bottles, I need to just empty them and get the trap right back up. I started out trying to use the little plastic bags the grocery stores bag purchases in, and tip the traps into them, but the beetles that are up in the yellow area try to fly away while I'm busy unscrewing the bottle. Also the live beetles appear able to chew holes through the flimsy plastic bags, so I had to quick put the bag in a bucket of water with a brick to hold the bag from floating -- this was too much hassle. The past few days I have been using a kitchen trash bag and that has been working better, I can shake the bottle upside down and then hold the bag shut around the yellow part of the trap while I unscrew the green bottle, and the trash bag is big enough that I have plenty of bag to dump the bottle into. The beetles in the bottles are mostly all dead so I have time to extract the yellow top and shake everybody down to the bottom (and then head off to the next trap).I love these traps they have helped so much, but I still needed to spray the orchard trees and grapes (but that was when I had only two traps, I'm hoping with 5 traps I won't need to spray).The problem I have is that the dead beetles stink horribly and the trash is only picked up once a week. I put the bags of bugs in a trash can outside, but it attracts flies and I can smell it if I go anywhere near it.

There should have been clearer instructions for this product. All they did was attract every beetle to my yard/garden. Also, not clear that you'd have to boil them (daily!😱) to abolish them. Save your money!

Theres good & bad about this product. Yes, the attractant works & traps Japanese Beetles, but this design is clearly too small. My trap fills to capacity in about 3 hours and dumping it is gross and difficult.

Expensive, it's so much more than the ones you see at the regular brick and mortar stores with the disposable bags. The scent pack seemed to be exactly the same as the plastic bag ones. So I put this one out and the plastic bag one about 30 feet away. I didn't see much difference in what each one captured, but when I went to buy more of the disposable bags the stores where all out, but with the Tanglefoot all I had to do was dump it out. One thing I didn't like about it, you can't see inside without twisting the the top off. Once when I went to empty it I found a Monarch butterfly in it. Luckly it was still alive but I would have felt awful if a Monarch had died in the trap.