Adult Chafer Beetle Trap - Natural Pheromone Trap

Easy to use, good for trapping moths as is very sticky. The trap is sturdy and easy to use .

Easy to use and set up: currently 3 stars and awaiting details on the amount of male fruit moths captured (see UPDATE). The female scent is a rubber plug (much like an eraser on the top of some pencils). Place in centre of card and placed on tree in the middle of May 2015. Used string to tie onto study branch as the hanger is similar to a metal clothes hanger, so would damage the bark. My Plum tree is full of immature plums and approximately 30% of last years crop was infested with small green grubs. Used sticky stem wraps in the winter (Nov 2014-May2015) : little late I know to capture wingless female moths)) and followed up with this to capture the males. We report on capture rate later hence the 3 stars. UPDATE: Trap used between May-October 2015 and seemed to work effectively (see photo). Very good crop and no plum month infestation. Combined with Grease band between October 2014-May 2015. Increased to 4 stars after use in the field (one mature only). - urban environment

I bought this for a Christmas gift. It is also not the season to use it, so can't comment of its efficacy. I have heard great things from other allotment owners, with apple trees, though. Reading the instructions, it looks simple enough and should definitely fit my two espalier trees. The current price is fair value for money, in my opinion. I have also bought the refill of the same variety for use over following years.

[updated after a month or so's use] Has worked in that we've talked quite a few box moths. Sadly my concern over the design of all these traps which relies on friction alone to keep the lid and body attached was correct. Our old one looks near identical here, but this new one failed after some use with the bottom just falling away from the top. Put it back up, it stayed a while, then fell apart l again. Then wouldn't stay at all and the lid appears warped from the Sun. Some insulation tape around the three pins tightened things up and its working again, but the design is just stupid.] This is similar to our first trap, but had a better design for how the clear bucket fits. It has a positive twist to lock fit. Our old one has a sort of stretchy strap going under it. The top and bottom only connect through the push on pins which have to carry the weight of the water in the bottom. Feels wrong, but both traps are the same and haven't come apart so far. Working already with several box moths trapped which is the acid test. Created a stand with a bamboo stake (cut from neighbours invader!) and a right angle wire plant support just placed in the hollow top. Seems to work well enough and places the trap at recommended eye level. Is that moth or human eye level? I can't been sure :-)

Works really well

For the last few years I’ve not been able to eat most of the plums on my tree because they had a pink worm in them. Decided to try out this trap this year. Trap easy to set up and place in tree. I followed all the instructions carefully. My first plums were ready to pick at the end of July this year. I was so disappointed that 5 out of the first 6 plums I picked had pink worms in them. I thought the trap hadn’t worked. A few days later I picked some more and only a fifth of them had worms inside. Since then all the plums I have picked have been worm free so the trap has obviously done its job. I presume that some of the eggs laid by the female moth on the plums were fertilized by a male moth before I set up the trap and that once the trap was set up it did its job and attracted the male moths to it before they had a chance to fertilize any eggs which had been laid on the plums. I will definitely be buying refills for my trap to use next year.

Used several times before. Always works well.

The advice was to put this out in early May and through June. I know there are chafers about - our lawn, and others in the street were completely trashed by grubs last year and we've had the ground rotovated and returfed. When peeling back dead grass last year there were thousands of chafers, spaced individually about every 2 centimeters. The blackbirds thought every day was their birthday. So it may be that it's a little early yet, but I haven't caught any chafer beetles at all. On the other hand, there was a flowering shrub close by where I first hung the pheromone trap, and within 2 days, a dozen or more bees (all types - hive bees and solitary bees) were all caught. Some died before I realised and let the survivors out. Since re-hanging the trap away from flowers, there have been a few tiny beetles caught and only one bee. I'll update this review as things progress and it starts to catch (or not) chafer beetles. I certainly hope it works. EDIT 7 JULY -- Useless. The device has been hanging as instructed since the beginning of May and I replaced the attractant / pheromone after 5 weeks (supposed to last 6). In that time - and bearing in mind the intensity of the chafer attacks on my lawn last year, and all my neighbours' lawns - it's caught two chafer beetles. Two! It's also lured between 40 and 50 bees (some, I regret to say, to their deaths) and countless small unidentifiable beetles - little black things a couple of mm long. Even if the nematodes I aplied to the lawn earlier had munched all the chafer grubs so there were no beetles to hatch, then there should have been beetles from my neighbours' lawns. Waste of money.