Indoor Fly Trap– Catcher & Killer for Mosquito, Fruit Fly, Gnat & Small Moth – Non-Zapper Trap with Fan Suction & Blue UV Light – Ideal for Indoor Spaces, Kitchen & Plants (Original, White)

I've had this for just under 5 years. It is amazing. I will provide my opinion on some of the things I have heard people complain about. 1. Too bright at night- NO IT'S NOT. The light is there to attract the little gnats. If the light is too bright for you at night, don't put it where it will disturb you. 2. Sticky pad not sticky enough. YES IT IS. I can literally open the door and see the gnats trying to free themselves from the sticky pad. The pad is so sticky, just by them landing on it, they can no longer move. Imagine their tiny little legs, probably the size if a hair strand, can get so stuck to the pad and try to escape without success. Yes, once in a blue moon, a gnat might be able to break free but then they just die from not eating. They can't get out once they are in. On rare occasions, one will fly away if you open the door and he hasn't landed yet but I can say that the entire bottom is covered in dead gnats and that is when I change the "board" as they call it. One pad can and will last for months. The stickiness doesn't go away as time goes on. Nothing dries up. 3. Too expensive. NOT IT'S NOT. I paid $6 more for this unit then it cost today. The price has literally gone down. Depending on how important it is for you to control the fruit flies or fungus gnats, will determine what it is worth to you. MY ONLY COMPLAINT: The manufacturer needs to make this unit easier to clean. You can take it apart to get to the fan but it is probably a good 45 minute job to break the unit down to the fan area. I've cleaned mine once. No matter how dusty the fan blades get, it still always works and always attracts the gnats. It will even suck in a big house fly or moth on occasion. Summary - I'm not sure why this is labeled as a "frequently returned item". Define frequent. When there are 17,000 reviews with an average of 4 starts, seems like some really hate it and some really love it. It really depends on your situation. I just purchased a 2nd one yesterday. If one works great, 2 will be phenomenal! I am giving 5 starts because of it's effectiveness. Based on what I paid and how long it has lasted, so far it has only cost $.02 cents per day. WELL WORTH IT!

This worked like a charm. My kid had failed to clean the lift box regularly and we had tons of flies and gnats. This thing basically worked overnight, catching the majority of the pests and neutralizing them. I used the standard setting, rather than the eco/quiet mode because I wanted the most effective mode possible. The price was a touch high for what it is, especially since they only send 4 sticky pads with it, considering that you're supposed to change them out semi regularly. The attractor light was bright enough to get the bugs but not so bright as to be annoying.

I live in an area where, apparently, flies and fruit flies/gnats are just part of life. I HATE them!!! I'm trying all the things, including this. After 2 weeks, it caught a good many of these annoying things (see pics). However, this is not "the answer" to the entire issue. Has it reduced the number of bugs? Yeah. Has it eradicated the issue? No. There was a situation that gave a sudden rise to these things in my house and I've been fighting them for days. I also put bleach in/on all the water source areas (sinks, bathtubs) in my house. Anytime someone leaves a door open, flies get in as well, so I'm always fighting those. In the first week I had this, it didn't catch flies at all. The ones it caught were just in the last couple days, so I guess it works on them as well. But I've also been killing a TON of them - way more than this machine caught. The gnats are not *gone* and there are still the occasional flies. I end up doing most of the work to get rid of these things and they are STILL not gone. Does it catch some? Yeah, and that's nice. But don't buy this thinking it will solve the problem. The pics are after a couple weeks of leaving this thing on ALL day long! I have put it in kitchen and near a window. Both were about the same number caught. I'm glad to have help in the fight against these horrible things, but it has not solved the issue. It does seem to be more directed at gnats, than other bugs. Which is fine. But don't expect this to catch any and all bugs, or to get rid of them entirely. I'm told I don't have a lot of these bugs in my house (the pics beg to differ!), but I honestly don't see a massive difference. Less? Yeah. But get a hot day and suddenly there is zero difference. They're still thriving, somehow, no matter how much I clean and bleach and make sure nothing is left out, change the rubbish bins often, even keep food in the fridge well and tightly covered/wrapped. I don't even buy fruit for my counter any more. I'm not mad, just a little disappointed that it hasn't solved the issue I bought it for. But I'll accept the help in this war on these vile bugs.

I purchased a scratchNdent and found my item had been used and slightly damaged, the top swirl grill was missing a small piece, and one of the sticky disks had been put into the unit already with a gnat stuck to it. Okay. I plugged it in, pushed one of the setting buttons (standard) and the light came on and the little fan makes a little bit of breeze, but wet a finger and hold it at the bottom and it is breezing out. It is also bigger than I expected, but I have such a tiny bug issue in this place, I don't care as long as it works. Something was mentioned about it works better in lower light levels. So. I plugged it in and set it up in a place I have been having issues. Four hours later, I pick it up to look down in. There's a lot more than one gnat on the mat already. It's doing the job. Great. The local little winged wildlife has resisted: letting the pots dry out good between waterings, watering with a mix of hydrogen peroxide and water, top mulching the pots, and the yellow sticky trap things. This seems to be vacuuming them up. YAY! If this works out I will get a couple more as I have plants in a few areas in my house. Trust me, I have at least six different microbugs including fruit flies, fungus gnats (arrgh!), a different gnat, and not sure exactly but a few are like tiny tiny various sorts of beetles... keeping the swarms down would be wonderful, without killing my plants. I will update this as it goes.. The picture isn't quite truelight because it is fairly dark in there, but. That's what it sorta looks like ON in the dark. To the right that is a matte BLACK surface that it's reflecting off of. Edit: my house is large, my buggie collection is way down on one end of the house where I have my first one, but. I just got a second one, also scratchNdent, to deal with the other end. I seen where someone complained that it is a fly-spa. This will NOT work on houseflies. They are too big and strong to be whooshed down onto the sticky pad. There are other ones built ($60-80) as wall sconces that WILL do the houseflies. This isn't built for that. However all the assorted little gnats and such are collecting at alarming rates on my sticky pads. It is nice to sit at my computer in the evening and not kill at least a dozen tiny assorted buggies. And my fungus gnat problem that came in with some potting soil mix, is pretty much gone. I can't say enough, if you have a grow booth and issues with little critters, that putting one of these in the booth at about two weeks for a night will not affect your grow and if there is anything in there it will clear out most of the problems. I have one room where the booth and most of my houseplants live (plus my spring starts as I go into that season as I update this) and the first one is outside the grow booth on the floor where it clears that room pretty well. Second one installed near the kitchen sink and other bathroom on other end of house, as there is a persistent problem there. I don't think it will catch sewer flies but those tend to respond to hot vinegar flushed through a running disposal with hot sink water, then follow with a cut up lemon and some icecubes run through the disposer. I will let you know if I get those little buggers back and if it can catch one or not. On both I am turning them off during the day and on after dark, as that is when the UV light seems to be the most visible to the little winged pests. I also want to see if the kitchen one will draw spiders. There are a few kinds that are drawn to dead prey, and though I have sticky traps for them, if this will be able to stick one down or not if it comes to check it out. Another thing I will update. Edit update. Plant area one is catching mostly gnats, vatloads of them. Kitchen has only a few, but is getting the fruit flies from the bananas. I put spider traps near both and the kitchen catch is up. Could not be happier with both Katchys. Have spring bedding and flower starts going and a new grow in the tent. I’ve put one in the tent a few times and no gnattie problem (last time will be day/ night 18 so as not to mess up auto blooming). No chemicals. Still worth the price. Replacing the sticky pads is super easy too. Edit: very late fall. We are the house servants of two mixed breed part Persian purries. The grey and white one in particular has very fine hair and a very full coat despite daily brushing/grooming. So we have slightly pre-used fur all over. Plus lots of house dust-joys of where we live. I have to take a q-tip to the top of both my Katchy’s weekly to keep the house glorp from obstructing airflow (also have to do it to our tower fans). Still catching the tiniest no-see-ums, fungus gnats and fruit flies. With fall garden harvest, the fruit flies moved in. I added a capful of apple cider taped off with a few holes next to the kitchen one, and it was literally carpeted with fruit flies in the bottom. The plants that came in brought micro buggies, and those numbers are quickly dropping as well. A Katchy doesn’t instantly get your population but in days you should have a disgusting collection on the bottom pad… I purchased a no- zap UV/sticky pad catcher meant for houseflies and installed over the toilet at the ceiling. It also does the job with a little time. So. Katchy do their job well, are easy to use and maintain, and paired with a true flycatcher, really helps keep you unbothered. $40 well spent.

This was a gift and the 3rd one we purchased (the 2nd one was for my mom). These things are great for getting those little tiny kitchen pests flying around the fruit bowl. My original one I have had for 3 years and it’s still working great, so it’s durable, but you do have to replace the sticky pad but the are inexpensive. It is safe for kids as there is no moving fan that is accessible (except for behind the grill). I do have to put it near where the bugs are, the light is not too bright but that is a good thing IMO. The low is pretty quiet at high the sound level is not too distracting and we use this at night

I’ve had a really annoying gnat infestation in my house. I had flies and gnats in my house in the past but they would clear away eventually. Not sure how it happened. But suspect that it was because I had 2 plants in the balcony outside and brought them in when it started to get really cold. I started using a trap of sweet juice with soap. It was working but it was not enough. I bought this trap and things are much much better. I think after a few more nights the pest will be completely gone. It is so much better already. Actual product feedback: 1. It’s much bigger than I thought. I thought it was similar to a plug in but is much bigger. I do not mind though as is not an ugly sight among my plants. 2. It makes a noise. I did not anticipate it would make any noise. But the fan running makes a noise similar to that of a running diffuser. It has 2 settings, low and standard. I do not mind because my infestation is concentrated in the lower level of the living room and kitchen. The low setting is more quiet but still makes noise. I actually enjoy low white noise like a fan or a diffuser. 3. I leave it on all day long cause I want these mother suckers gone. But works better at night. 4. One of the cons is that the glue is not that sticky BUT it still does the job. It will require a few days of letting it run to eradicate the problem. 5. When you unplug the trap to replace the glue, the fan stops running and the ones that did not stick to the glue will escape. 🤷🏽‍♀️ But its just a few and again, given time they will be all gone. 😈 What I try to do is unplug it quickly and run outside to open it and change the sticky glue pad. It’s cold outside but desperate times call for desperate measures. 6. Lastly, it comes with only 4 sticky glue replacements. If your problem is as bad as mine, you will need to order more. I ordered some off-brand replacements that were cheaper. I will get them tomorrow. Hopefully it works as good 🤞🏽

To be clear: this product is effective and probably worth buying. However, as a result of this purchase, some issues have arisen that amount to a level of annoyingness that truly merits - yes - a *two* star deduction. I’ll make it quick(ish): 1 - Product was not packaged beyond the branded, colorful, very specific and clear product packaging. I live in an apartment building. I know at least one of my neighbors now knows of my pest situation because someone brought it inside the building and amazon doesn’t have a key. A little silly for me to care, but I thought it was odd and totally embarrassing. 2 - It only comes with 4 sticky disks things, and the disks actually kinda were not great. Overall the contraption works well, but the *trapping* part of the *pest trap* is perhaps the most crucial part. Yes, most of the pests stuck, but some of the little gnats somehow didn’t really get fully stuck. (See attached video of the gnat walking around on what was supposed to be a death trap.) The first time I opened the Katchy after running it overnight, two gnats flew out of the cage as soon as I opened it. Anyway like I said it works well but you only get 4 sticky disks so within a week you’ll need more. And the Katchy brand ones are sold out... not that I would recommend them anyway, but Katchy should make better sticky disks and have them available for purchase. Still have gnats but definitely far fewer. And it has been less than a week since it came.

used this to solve a fruit fly issue at home, it works well but only really good at night with no other lighting around. catches a few fruit flies but sometimes i see them just hanging out inside or around the unit. honestly i just bought a good ole purple zapper light and it works more efficiently without the noise of a constant fan