Pro Pest Pantry Moth & Beetle Traps 2 Pre-Baited Traps

I recently purchased some flour from King Arthur online and my husband casually mentioned this past weekend that he had killed a small beetle on the shelf days before. ARGH! Oh the horror! You never saw anyone strip out their pantry faster! He often complains I don’t listen to him but I heard that! Lol I found the culprits in that one bag and some tiny pin prick holes in the bag where they had eaten their way out. I googled them and they were cigarette beetles. Well five mins later and I had hit up amazon for a heap of clip lock storage containers and purchased these baits. I took all of my flours, nuts, dried fruit and grains out of my panty and inspected each bag carefully and once each bag got the all clear I transferred the contents to the storage containers, got the bags outside ASAP and hit my shelves with peroxide - while I was waiting for the traps to come I had to do something! I have no idea if the peroxide did anything but it made me feel better! The beetles seemed to be restricted to that one bag except for a tell tale beetle husk I found elsewhere. Set these traps the next day thinking I got all the little suckers already and within a hour had trapped a couple of beetles. Horrified at the amount of pantry items I might have lost, I quickly purchased another pack and set up beetle trap land mines at both ends of that shelf and on the floor. A couple days later we have captured ten enemies and two of them are a different slightly larger type - I’m thinking they sent in the big guns when the little guys didn’t return. I now have the whole area staked out and under constant surveillance. I even saw a tiny moth fly into the pantry looking for the lure, so he met a quick demise. These things are amazing! No pesticides no residue, clean and safe and extremely desirable to bugs. I’m thinking from now on I will just leave these little tents set up at base camp permanently and replace regularly just in case any of the enemies mount another attack! God forbid, but we will be lying in wait next time! These traps are wonderful! Highly recommended! PS. These traps just caught a scorpion in our closet under our stairs! We are in Arizona and anything that disposes of scorpions in our house gets a big thumbs up from me!!! Not sure if it was attracted to the scent or to the couple of tiny bugs already in there but WIN WIN! I love these things!!! PSS. I now have these things in my garage, under the stairs, under furniture, tucked way in the back where they can’t be seen. I’m obsessed. I have caught pill bugs (kinda cute and harmless but I don’t want them inside) and cockroaches in the garage. Pantry moths and pantry beetles and scorpions and crickets, and even a spider in the house! I switch them out every couple of months and I will always use them from now on as they are harmless to my dog babies and give me extra security that nothing is lurking or breeding silently in the dark corners of my house. Please do not be tempted to use them outside! They will trap little lizards and other beneficial critters and could get stuck to a small bird attracted to all the stuck bugs. For inside the house though these things are a godsend!

Has helped with the cigarette beetles SO much!!

Oh man. The traps I received were manufactured in July 2017; it is ~May 2018 right now...I guess these traps have a short shelf life. I ordered these because I (all of a sudden) have a MAJOR infestation of either Drugstore Beetles or Cigarette Beetles (I cannot be sure, I don't carry a microscope with me). These things are in my closet. They are all over my bedroom and they are between the floorboards. They are in my coffee cup and they are in my clothes. These traps arrived today and I can already tell that they are ineffective. I set up four (4) traps and positioned lamps with very bright light (these things are attracted to light) alongside the pre-baited traps. Yes, the bugs are congregating in the vicinity of the traps but I'm convinced this is due to the light and not the traps themselves. Not a single insect has ventured into the trap of its own volition. I've only caught one insect in the four traps I've set and that's because I bullied it into going into the trap. A moment ago I witnessed one of the insects approach the trap and make a sharp retreat. I will keep the traps for the specified length of time. If by some chance these traps do work, I'll amend my review. But for now, I don't recommend them.

It captured 11 of these cigarette beatles so it did work. But maybe a week later I was seeing live bugs elsewhere so it’s allure may wain faster than I was expecting. Kit came with 2 traps and I was advised to not use both at the same time in the same room. Something about confusing the bugs with conflicting scents in the air. but I should have used the second one right after the first one started to loose potency. I would buy it again but I don’t think they last as long as the packaging says they do.

⚠️ CAT (or any pet) OWNERS PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE BUYING THESE TRAPS, PLEASE I BEG YOU ⚠️ We were having a bug problem in the summer (it’s Nov 30th 2024 as I’m writing this) so I bought these traps since it said they were safe to use around cats and I have two very curious and rambunctious cats. They caught a good amount of whatever bug we were having issues with, didn’t catch as much as I thought they would so I still have to vacuum daily and wash everything in hot water but they helped a bit. It even caught a couple of spiders and our new house gets a lot of them.. it was easy to set up and use them because you just stick them together into a triangle shape then put them wherever you want (I did one in the bathroom and one in the bedroom since that’s the only places we had the bugs). It’s very sticky, it stays sticky for months, it has no smell, it’s small enough that you can put it basically anywhere, and it did its job well with catching the annoying bugs. But tonight at 3am, I got woken up by my long haired cat screaming and freaking out. I was sleeping so when I woke up, I turned my phone flashlight on to check what happened and I was horrified when I found her with her back paw stuck to the trap. It was REALLY stuck, I couldn’t pull it off of her without her hissing at me and trying to bite/scratch me. I had to wake up my boyfriend to hold her while I cut her fur off of the trap. She was REALLY stuck to the trap so I guess that speaks to how sticky it is which is a good thing when it comes to catching pests.. just not when it comes to fur babies with hair, I mean just look at the photos. Fortunately, it didn’t stick to her toe beans so I think she’ll be fine without seeing the vet (we are still contacting her vet to make sure she’s okay and are keeping the trap in a bag in case they need to test her and it for poison/etc). My cat is fine (the company should be thankful bc if she wasn’t fine, they would be dealing with the vet bill) and all is good now that the traps are no where close to my fur babies. But it caused me and my cat A LOT of stress. I was shaking like a leaf trying to get it off of her without causing more damage and it’s now 4:45am, we’re just now starting to calm down. I will NOT be buying these again, I’ll find an actual cat safe solution to getting rid of pests in the future. Long story short.. this is a great trap when it comes to pests. BUT IF YOU HAVE A CAT (or any pets that have free roam around your house), PLEASE DO NOT USE THESE KINDS OF TRAPS, I BEG YOU. If you do, find a way to keep your cats away from the trap or something. I got lucky and my girl didn’t get hurt besides less fur on her foot/leg but if your cat has short hair, they might get their toe beans stuck to it and rip the delicate skin off which would be very bad.

It is working great. We found that we had a big problem in our laundry room of all things, we had left a few bags in a box, with vegetable seeds and ferterlizer sticks, not knowing that these little bugs would be there and all of sudden we started seeing these little bugs all over the room and we read up on them and figured out what these were. We started clearing out the room of everything and found a bunch of them in the box and what looked like a nest of dried crud, looking like eggs and there must have been hundreds of them in the box. We kept killing these through out our house and set up several of these traps and even double check out pantry, just in case, but we keep everything in there in plastic containers, nothing in the store boxes. These traps right away started getting filled up with little bugs and after a week, we now have seen none, but spraying every week and willl keep these around all the time, plus NO Seeds in the house anymore.

in the midst of moving last month, i was beset by mealmoth invaders. they came pouring out of boxes and from dark hiding holes. my pantry was under siege. for long hours i planned my defense. i monitored their activity, where they sleep, who their leaders were. once i was sure i had enough information, i deployed my home's second most powerful weapon. this tent-like contraption lures them in with a twisted sweet promise, and once inside, they can never escape. it took only one night to see the devious slaughter at work. a whole platoon of mealmoths had been lured, 22 in one night. all lie helpless in its treacherous embrace. one night after, a second platoon was captured. you can imagine my glee. i set the second up with care, in another room to allow the first to do its bloody work alone. and every night, when the sun went down, i erected the electric bug zapper, truly the finest and most powerful of my home defenses. each night, slews of mealmoths met their end. soon, however, i was being buried in the avalanche of their corpses. the traps that had lured so many to their demise, had run out of room to feed. once used, they cannot be reused. they were disposed of carefully, with gloves. a veritable graveyard of my enemies, disposed of in the garbage. after 5 days, i had won the day. the tides had shifted. scores of the enemy lay dead and broken at my feet. perhaps i did not claim all of their lives, but their army was broken. their will, extinguished. should they mount for another battle, it will be the new homeowners problem. my lifelong war on bugs lies in distant, foreign lands.

I didn’t even open the plastic bag containing the trap and some beetles were already moving towards it. When opened, it was like a divine wrath from above, up to 50-100 beetles flying in the air and others emerging. Killed a good chuck before they went into the trap. The stickiness works but the beetles tend to stay near the edge so the mid section is but wasted. A few moths did fly in, but it pretty great to bring the beetles from hiding. Caught a lot the next few days.