Tanglefoot Tree Care Kit

Looks and sounds like what is required. Can't wait to try it....

Wonderful at doing its job: creating an impassable barrier for crawling insects.Personal Tip: It is extremely sticky and will not wash off. You can keep using your hands in outside activities (like garden/yardwork) and it will quickly wear off without you noticing. I recommend NOT using gloves as it will not come as easily off anything else as it will your skin. I use a dedicated palette knife blade for application as I found that's what works best for me. I 'clean' it by wiping on grass.A little goes a long, long, long way. If your target is in direct sun for most of the day, you will find you need more frequent applications. At the heat of summer, I was applying every two weeks. Outside of that window, 3-4 weeks was the norm. Sun will make it run off and you will start to see a few stray ants: time to re-apply.I've seen some reviews saying you do not need to apply the entire width of the included barrier roll (3"-4"); Yes, yes, you do. The bodies of insects will build up and they WILL train/bridge across it in self sacrifice to reach the fruit. Do not give them such little room to reach across as to negate all your set-up. Keep the layer thin but cover any gaps. Towards the end of the season, I simply touched up by applying a thin strip (1") above the initial barrier and let it drip down to meet the established barrier; this worked for me instead of removing paper and then re-applying another 4" barrier. Even if I had, would still have a lot left, but time saved. You will also need something to tie the paper barrier around your target so it stays in place. The paper is only there to give you the option to apply it to a removable media instead of directly to bark. I've done both. With frequent applications needed, I find fussing with paper to be tiresome and chose not to. It will not harm the tree. It does have an added benefit of instantly displacing any squirrel that jumps on at that point, tho. They hate it, but it is funny (if annoying) to see their paw prints all the way up the trunk.Highly recommend this all natural product.Read the instructions, as it's very important that no other access to the targets can be around for it to work (i.e., stakes for a tree; anchor lines, string, or other route of bypass to the canopy/fruit-bearing access).

I am happy with the product. It is exactly as described. One caution though - Wear disposable gloves when taking the Tanglefoot container out of the plastic wrap. Mine leaked a bit and the container was covered in the Tanglefoot.

I have multiple bee hives that are top bar hives (rectangle boxes that stand off the ground with 2x4 instead of the traditional cubes you might be used to) and I started to get some free loading ants setting up shop for the honey my bees were making. Being a responsible owner of bees I couldn't see their hard work going to these invaders so I searched around for how to stop this invasion. The ants were coming into the hive via the 2x4 supports and they were unapologetic and showed this by straight up building a hive adjacent to the bees. Apparently some people have used tanglefoot to stop them from coming up so figured I would do the same. Great idea on paper, horrible in real life. This stuff is a two part process. First you wrap the 2x4 with this bandage looking stuff then you smear this what I can best describe as asphalt filler on it and presto you're supposed to have a barrier. A couple problems come up, the bandage stuff isn't adhesive so wrapping it on vertical beams and having it stay is a Herculean task in itself. Let's say by some magic way you do wrap something well then comes the part of applying the tangle foot. You can wear gloves but you're gonna saturate your entire body with this stuff worse than a Chernobyl clean up worker gets covered in radiation. In the end the ants got dark on me and literally built a land bridge using their dead for other to walk across. It was really quite morbid so yeah mixed results.

works good