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RESCUE! FTD-DT12 Disposable Fly Trap | 
| Brand: STERLING INTERNATIONAL
List Price: $88.09
Buy New: $4.98
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 3882
Media: Misc.
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 8 x 3.3
MPN: FTD-DT12
Model: FTD-DB12
UPC: 042853773014
EAN: 0042853773014
ASIN: B00004TBKM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The RESCUE! Fly Trap catches common nuisance or filth flies – hundreds of the most prevalent species including house flies, false stable flies, blow flies, blue and green bottle flies, flesh flies, face flies and many others.
The RESCUE! Disposable Fly Trap is intended for use outdoors. It will help control the fly population outside before it ever becomes a nuisance inside.
Suggested locations for the trap include: Near a dog run or kennel In a barn with good air ventilation Around poultry, hogs, sheep, dairy and beef cattle Near garbage bins or dumpsters Near a compost pile
PRODUCT FEATURES:
Powder attractant is contained within the trap itself Attractant dissolves and activates quickly when water is added to the bag Trap's design eliminates touching the bait or the flies Completely disposable Holds up to 20,000 flies (yes, we counted them all!)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 FLIES, FLIES everywhere! What to do? What to do? August 10, 2005
Mr D. (Cave Creek, Az United States)
31 out of 35 found this review helpful
Almost five years ago I moved into my new home, which happens to sit in a horse zoned area, in fact I happen to be right across the street from a horse ranch that trains cut horses, so they not only board several horses at any given time but they usually have some twenty to twenty-five cattle as well.
The week we moved into our new home we had so many flies in the house that I went to various windows throughout the house, where they seemed to congregate and vacuumed them into my built in vacuum cleaner. This worked pretty good but obviously I couldn't walk around all the time with a vacuum cleaner. I needed something effective but passive.
The answer was the Rescue Fly Control Trap. The first year I hung three of these babies in trees, two in front and one in back. I liken this fly trap to the Pied Piper but where the Pied Piper lured hundreds of rats to their end in a watery grave with music, these little gems lure tens of thousands of houseflies to their demise in a watery grave by smell.
Smell, that is the one downside of the Rescue Fly Control Trap. It attracts the little nuisances by emitting a distasteful, if not malodorous aroma resembling animal waste and that is why these units should be utilized only outside, however that is not as bad as it sounds. The odor is really only noticeable in a three to five foot radius so if they are strategically located they will not offend anyone.
For what it is, the Rescue Fly Control Trap is overpriced but it so effective it is a bargain. The first year I started using these traps, they would fill up in six weeks to two months. I would guess that each trap would hold about five to ten thousand flies, maybe more. I would say that they are needed only about six months a year but I leave mine up all year and just don't hydrate them during the winter and summer, when Houseflies seem not to be active.
The trap consists of a yellow plastic housing containing an upside down lattice style cone, entirely enclosed in plastic. Inside the plastic container is also the material that when hydrated gives off the magnetic pungent bouquet that brings flies in droves. The trap is enclosed and self contained until you want to activate it, which is done by taking a razor blade or sharp knife and cutting the plastic around the round top. Once the plastic is severed from the top, the top slides out providing an opening in which water can be added. Once you have added water you are ready to start trapping flies. The flies enter the trap though the same opening that you added water, travel down the inverted cone to an opening near the bottom. They make the trip down easy enough but cannot figure out how to go back out. They are TRAPPED!
Simply take your activated fly trap outside and hang it in an area remote enough to not be offensive. It can be hung with string or long wire ties. I use bailing wire. The trap will need to be watered periodically to make up for evaporation, so hang it where it is easy to reach. Flies don't like the sun unless it's cold outside, therefore from my experience, traps in light shade (in a tree) are most effective.
So how have these fly traps been working out for me? They seem to be working out extremely well. Each successive year I have been able to reduce my use of these traps as well as my fly swatters for the ones that manage to avoid the traps. I hope it's not a fluke but this year I put only one trap out so far and though it's full I still haven't replaced it. It is summer right now, where in Arizona it's so hot the flies seem to disappear until milder weather returns. Perhaps they do as many other Phoenicians do and head for the cooler mountains. In any event they will be back in September/October so I will put a new trap out. That will make two this year, down from nine the first year.
World's best fly trap November 12, 2006
Cynthia Seigworth
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
There is no other that even compares. I've used these around our farm for 13 years now and they are the BEST at catching flies. I've had to use the other brands when Quality Farm & Fleet went out of business and sad to say that those other traps hardly caught anything. I even got to see a side by side comparison when I made a delivery to a horse farm. The gentleman had a Rescue as well as brand X sitting outside one of his barns with the Rescue sitting 10ft farther away from the barn than the brand X. Well the Rescue was 2/3 fuller than the brand X. The flies were actually flying past the brand X to get to the Rescue Trap!
EXCELLENT!! June 26, 2006
Bonita L. Gerdes (Belvidere, Il United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
After moving in with our horses to previous cow property we fought the flies and the flies won!
I tried several different items yet found this trap to be the absolute best! Hae recommended it to others and they love it too.
Think I have caught a billion flies with it over the past 7 years and it is priceless.
 Also a very good trap. August 9, 2007
W. M. Floyd (SE GA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product is very similar to another product I reviewed. So, for more detailed information, please see my other review. However, this product is much less expensive than the other trap I reviewed. So, for comparison, here are my observations:
1. This trap already has the bait installed in the trap. The bait is contained in a small plastic bag that dissolves when water is added, thus releasing the bait. While it is not a big deal to add the bait yourself, I did feel better about not having to touch the bait.
2. The bag is made of a thick celophane-type material which does not seem to be as strong as the other trap. I have not had a problem with this, but it just seems a little less sturdy.
3. The bag size is about half the size of the other trap. So, the trap must be changed out sooner than the other trap. Not a big deal, and can still be changed out 3 or 4 times for the same price as the other trap.
4. This trap has writing all over the bag which is fairly tacky hanging from the house. The other trap is clear with no writing.
5. The reason for the writing on the bag is because the bag acts as the packaging. Yes, that means that there is no wrapping or other packaging to throw away. This is ingenious from an environmental point of view. All you do is pop up the top, add some water, and it's ready to go. Don't make a mistake and try to "open" the bag. Doing so would ruin the trap.
I love these traps and the fact that they are a viable alternative to spraying poisons all over the house.
Best Flytrap, Hands Down August 19, 2007
F. Hermann
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I never dreamed that I would one day write a review of a fly trap, but this thing works so darn well that I thought I would be doing a disservice to others by keeping silent.
We live in a semi-rural area with a robust fly population, which proved to be a constant annoyance. It seemed that we couldn't open the windows or doors for even a short period without a squadron of flies invading our house. We tried a number of different fly traps (e.g., the sticky kinds) but to no avail. This is the first trap, however, that really works.
Within two weeks this thing was so full that the dead flies formed an "island" within the bag of water that allowed the flies that were still alive to begin breeding. That's when I decided it was time to change the trap. No joking, there were at least 500 dead flies in the bag. We are currently on our second trap, which is filling up more slowly, I assume due to a reduced fly population.
The only downside, as other reviewers have noted, is that the trap stinks once it is activated with water (The smell is exactly like that of an old dumpster), so you definitely don't want to hang one in your house. We hang our traps under our backyard deck and can rarely smell them. We have already noticed significantly fewer flies in our house. I think one or two more traps should do the job, at least until next summer.
In short, at four bucks a piece you can't beat these environmentally-safe traps for exterminating those flying annoyances around your house.
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