Safer Brand Japanese Beetle Trap with Attractant - 70102 - Includes 1 Trap, 1 Lure, and 2 Jumbo Bags - Japanese Beetle Traps Outdoor

Ok. I didn’t have a great hope for this. The beetles seemed very bad this year. I don’t remember the brand I usually use( for the past 3-4 years) But I figured I’d try after reading the description and information. Well, after 2 days there was a marked difference in the amount of beetles all over my garden. In the past I still had to go around plucking them off and putting them in a jar. A few days( maybe a week ) later there was and still are ZERO BEETLES! So I highly recommend this product if Japanese beetles are destroying your garden ! Easy to set up, caught all the beetles ( they are gone, I haven’t looked in the bag as of yet, but they don’t just fly away. But yuck. Who wants to look in that bag!) So happy they were gone so quickly!

This is the winner after I had the major brands set up in my garden. The Spectracide was #2 with Rescue coming in a distant third. The Rescue design has the lure at the very top. The one-way choke point is much larger than the others so more beetles can escape. The zipper is a nice idea, but gets clogged with dead beetles easily so it needs a strong binder clip or 2 to keep the bottom closed. The Spectracide design works, but Safer has it beaten in 4 ways - The bag is green (direct sun cooks the beetles); and larger ( more dead beetles. The choke point is smaller, so escape is difficult, although a full bag can take some work to empty. And most important, the sex lure component is more concentrated, so beetles swarm to the trap. The first time I put up the Safer trap it was full in about 3 hours. The next several days got about a bag a day. Japanese Beetles weigh about 3000 to the pound or about one Spectracide bag. The Safer bag might hold 1.5 pounds. I empty the bags into a bucket of soapy water, rinse on a wire screen and deliver the beetles to three local chicken ranchers. Chickens LOVE to eat beetles. I understand that a few people keep the beetles in the freezer for winter treats! With the traps located 30 ft downwind, the beetle damage is down a lot and over 50,000 beetles are gone permanently with some very happy chickens.

The product works great at focusing the beetles to a different location. We have two set up to protect our garden and newly planted apple trees and we’ve noticed a 95% reduction of beetles on our plants. There are still a few pesky ones that find their way to the plant first but it’s much better than an entire dynasty eating up the leaves. A quick spray of water sends them on their way into the trap. It’s also entertaining to watch them fly into the trap wall and fall into the bag like they deserve. Only issue I have with it that doesn’t exactly warrant a loss of a star; the beetles will die pretty quickly. This creates a pretty bad stench and attracts from flies. If you have the trap located in a stop not frequently traveled, then this isn’t an issue.

UPDATE: (2019) New year, new trap. This year I set the trap out a couple weeks earlier, made a tripod to hang it from, cut the bottom of the bag off and placed it an inch from the water in a 5 gallon bucket with a squirt of dish soap (about 4 inches deep). The temperature has been in high 80s for several days and had just started seeing Jap. Beetles yesterday. As soon as I opened the lure and stuck it on the trap they started showing up and caught a dozen in the first 10 minutes. I feel it important to add that I barely saw any Skunks in my yard since last fall and even the Opossums aren't hanging around much ( My place was Skunk central for several years prior to using this trap! ) and Japanese Beetles are much more active when the temperature is OVER 85 degrees. (2018) My Pawpaw trees are thanking me! Counted 40ish Japanese Beetles and panic set in! A search of traps brought me to Amazon and I chose this Safer Brand trap. The first 2 days were slow with high temps in low 80s and some rain storms. The third day, yesterday, SWARMS like I've never imagined showed up. Instead of waiting for the bag to fill, I cut the bottom and put a 5 Gal. bucket with a gallon of water and 1 drop of liquid soap under the bag, about an inch from the top of the water. The first round only took a few hours, when the beetles covered the water surface new beetles hit the floaters and flew back out... round two ended after noon today (I had a new bucket ready to go and flushed the round 1 beetles down the toilet when they quit moving). I hung the bag from a curved piece of Bamboo I had laying around, stuck in the ground. Round three is filling while 2 is covered and perishing. PROS: The lure works really well for Jap. Beetles, (have seen bad reviews by people using this for the wrong species) and the price, for what you get is really quite good. CONS: What you get ~is~ cheap, so a little bit of tweeking and imagination can help it to work a LOT better. Read reviews for tweek ideas, like the zip cable to keep the bag open....

Does work and attract beetles but not as well as other brands. Attractant for beetles is not as strong as it could be.

The trap didn't seem to work for weeks, then almost overnight the back was half full of beetles. I hung the trap on my dying Ash tree. The trap works perfectly in Denver, Colorado. Never plant an Ash tree as long as Japanese beetles are in the area. If you do, you are just perpetuating the species, and they will eventually kill every single Ash tree.

Put 3 out and caught like 300 beetles from destroying our plants. Don't put bags close to ground, animals will bit through bags to get bugs.

This brand has a stronger dose of attractant that a competing brand, and that is why I have chosen it, based on past performance. I can really notice the difference in how many beetles are caught. Long ago I ditched the bag that is used with this, and modified a 5-gallon bucket with a fair sized hole and attache the X shaped plastic above it on the lid. Put some water in the bottom to drown them and watch it work!