How To Select The Right Traps

The majority of fly traps sold, these days, are for the elimination of House Flies. They hold absolutely no interest to a Biting Stable Fly. You can cover a barn in House Fly Traps and your horses and livestock will still suffer continual biting by Biting Stable Flies. The House Fly Traps are designed to attract House Flies with food and mating odors as well as visual cues. Biting Stable Flies have no interest in these scents. They are strictly out for a blood based meal. They are drawn to large dark objects that emit heat, like horses.

House Fly Traps come in two basic categories: Odor Attractants & Adhesive. Well configured odor traps utilize a combination of odor lures designed to exploit a fly's two biggest concerns: food and sex. The majority of commercial House Fly Traps, currently on the market, only address the food odors, using a recipe comprised of various acids. Many of the homemade traps you see recommended on, "Do-it-yourself," sites, are based on concoctions using molasses, yeast or other sugary, smelly food materials. Spalding Labs now offers StarBar® Traps, which use a feeding stimulant, in combination with sex pheromones specific to flies. So, you'll catch house flies, regardless of what they're hungry for. These superior odor lures can make a dramatic difference in your results, often resulting in 400% to 2,000% more flies. And, that means less flies harassing your animals, spreading diseases and reproducing.

Sticky Fly Traps attract flies through a combination of visual cues and strategic placement. (See Place Traps Correctly.) These visual cues amount to the kinds of shapes and colors that flies prefer. Yellow is incredibly attractive to house flies. A brightly colored, stabilized, flat surface is always a hit with flies looking for a place to rest. StarBar® EZ Trap® has all of these features and is infinitely more effective than wavering, highly unstable sticky coil traps. If you've got a sizable barn with quite a few animals, Spalding-Labs highly recommends our new StarBar® EZ Trap®. Not only are they the best designed sticky trap solution available, but you'll save money by rinsing them off and reusing them, again and again.