Hot Shot No-Pest Strip, Kills Flying And Crawling Insects, Penetrating Vapor, 1 Pack

A seasonal thing, we battled those pesky fruit flies for over a month with no relief. We even found that they were hanging out on the family room ceiling. so every evening, my husband pulled out the vacuum and used the hose attachment to suck in the flies overhead. Then our daughter came in one night and told us about her friend who had also battled fruit flies. Her friend recommended Hot Shot No-Pest Strip to us. I placed an order that same night for two strips. I forgot to mention that we had hung another brand of pest strip but it didn’t work. As soon as the Hot Shot No-Pest Strip arrived, my husband took them out their packages, hanging one in the kitchen over the sink and one in the family room. I truly believe that the strips started working that night. The next day it seemed like it was a lot less flies around us. And within 4 days except for one persistent fly, they were pretty much gone. That little fly was eventually caught on the bathroom mirror. No more flies. I know what we’ll be ordering next year. Hot Shot No-pest Strip, comes as a package of one. I highly recommend it.

I bought these traps to put in my kitchen and bathrooms. In our kitchen, we tend to get fruit flies around our coffee machine. In the bathroom, we get them around the sinks, as they come out of the overflow drains and like to hang around my potted plants. These come in a 6-pack, which includes 6 small plastic cases and 6 single-use solution tubs. To setup, you take on plastic case, and one solution tub. Peel the sealed cover off of the solution tub, drop it into the case, and put the lid on the case. From there, you just place it in the area where you notice flying insects. The solution looks unremarkable, visually, but smells slightly of vinegar. After these had dried up, it looked somewhat goopy, but still smelled of vinegar. Putting a bit of water into the solution tub quickly reconstitutes the solution. Given this, I believe the solution is nothing more than vinegar, water, and soap, which is the recipe for a DIY fruit fly trap, but in a MUCH smaller scale. The first night I put these out, I caught a single fruit fly in the bathroom, which made me very hopeful that these were to solution to my problem. Unfortunately, these seem to be absolutely ineffective, as that first fruit fly I caught has been THE ONLY fruit fly I’ve caught, even though you can see them flying around these things. I’m not sure if the solution is too weak, too small amount, or just not an effective solution in the first place. Given that I’ve had these in place for months at this point, and have only caught one single fly, which I believe was a complete fluke, I have to come to the conclusion that these are a complete sham that do absolutely nothing, which the company probably knows, but still decides to cash in on people needing a real solution. Overall, these are a major disappointment, and I would not recommend these to anyone.

These strips are extremely effective for flat mites and spider mites on houseplants. I had been struggling to fully get rid of them, and these were the only thing that actually worked. I noticed a big improvement within a short period of time, and the infestation cleared up completely. That said, they do need to be used in a separate space. I used them in my garage with the plants isolated, since you’re not supposed to be around them and they shouldn’t be used in areas with pets or a lot of foot traffic. As long as you follow the directions and use them properly, they work exactly as intended. This is not a casual, leave-out product, but if you’re dealing with persistent mites and have a safe space to use them, they are absolutely worth it. I’d buy them again without hesitation.

Works as very well, passive, it takes a couple days to clear out the insects, just as advertised. BUT NOT for kitchens or areas with kids bedrooms or family rooms. Also not for pet areas (like smaller caged critters or your pet feeding areas). Does not seem to effect little sugar ants. If you have a fruit fly problem in those mentioned areas, just take disposable plastic water bottle, cut off a small piece of the pest strip, push into empty bottle, then push in some overripe bananas or fruit and punch a couple holes in cap. Put in tiny warm h20, shake and place in fly infested area, they will crawl in, but cannot figure out to exit. Also, for fleas in carpet areas, ,, cut the pest strip in half. Hang the half as directed. Take other half and cut into squares, roughly size of a 25¢ quarter. Distribute around known flea zone, it will kill egg laying fleas and use one of those light traps with stickum. Not for pet feeding zones.

Okay... so I read the other reviews in regards to not using this in "living" areas... I read several of them... but you know what.. I was desparate, and desperate times called for desperate measures... I had already had a mild fruit fly problem in my small apartment (about 750 square feet).. and like a bubblehead... I left one morning in a hurry after making a smoothie and neglected to clean up.. I managed to leave a few strawberries on the counter right next to an unfinished glass of wine.. I then left and didn't return for about three days.. I came home to the Fruit-FlyAgeddon.. Fruit-Apocolypse... It was HORRIBLE. I spent the entire weekend, swatting flies away from my face, my laptop screen, my television screen.. I even tried vacuuming them from the various areas they would land.. I spent hours over the course of a weekend waving my vacuum hose around in my living room like some cracked out Ninja with a lame sword trying in vain to suck up the little mutants as they flit around my apartment. And then it happened. I went to open my bedroom window; and there it was. The Fruit Fly Village. In my bedroom window.. hundreds of them... milling about. Shopping, playing, singing, dining, mocking me. It was 20 degrees outside and I had to sleep with a fan blowing towards me to keep the little mutants from landing on me while I tried in vain to sleep beneath Fruit Fly Village.. I literally cried myself to sleep. Because I realized.. those little freaks had been in my apartment.. all along. Just waiting for me to mess up.. and I did.. I fought them over the long Thanksgiving Weekend.. and first tried the vinegar/dishsoap thing.. I freaked out when I saw all the bodies floating.. but the vinegar just seemed to draw them out.. it wasn't alleviating the problem.. It was merely punctuating the severe issue that I had.. Then, after returning home one evening It was then that I cracked. I could not cook in my kitchen as they would land everywhere.. I couldn't even hang out in my living room.. While trying to watch the Mindy Project I spent the entire show swatting them away from my face... And I definitely couldn't enjoy a glass of beloved wine.. I couldn't even put my makeup on in my bathroom without one of the mutants landing on my foundation on my face, I even swallowed a couple of them during a workout... Yes.. I couldn't even enjoy my Tae-Bo... They had taken over.. I'd had it... I hopped online and immediately ordered the No-Pest Strip... Prime Membership.. spent the extra $3.99 to get it the next day..I thought to myself... I will risk the adult onset ADD.. This must end... I want my life back. I hung it up... and after a few hours.. noticed that nothing was flying around my head as I watched television.. but I think it was all in my mind.. I decided to go to bed.. place it in my tiny kitchen.. and see what would happen. I closed myself up in my bedroom to try to minimize the ADD fumes.. The next morning.. I noticed not much.. I dressed for work and left. Upon arriving home.. I began to notice.. the tiny carcasses on my kitchen counter.. I cleaned them all.. In my bathroom, I noticed a few carcasses in my tub. OMG.. could it be working? There was a faint smell.. not intrusive.. but just enough to remind me that the ADD stick was working.. Then, the big test.. I sat on my sofa to watch television.. I was only accosted by one lone fruit fly.. I was winning.. And now.. the battle is almost won. It has eliminated 90% of the mutants.. I made the mistake of forgetting to plug in the drains in the kitchen and just went and found quite a few plotting their attack.. I attacked them with a bottle of Clorox and some very hot water.. I am strong now Mutants.. I am winning. Yeah.. this stuff works.. I have my bedroom back.. they are gone.. only a few here and there.. Easy to kill.. I will let it hang for two more days.. and then discard my ADD stick.. I have my apartment back!

I purchased these because the have the same active ingredient as Nuvan pro strips, which I used about a dozen years ago with a long list of other items to battle carpet beetle larvae. Due to the stress it caused me the first time, I still to this day keep plastic bins with locking lids and gasket seals for almost everything we own. I was recently living in a little old drafty rent house with lots of cracks that let in everything. Bad idea! Luckily I caught the beetles early this time and not many, only larvae, and in only one area of the house. For all the hard to wash items like books and suitcases, I made some fumigation pods to put in a storage unit using heavy duty plastic sheeting and sealed up the edges with packing tape and enclosed one of these strips in each pod. I also didn’t make the pods that large either. I only kept the storage for 3 months, so needed to remove everything. I spent some time going through each item very carefully before bringing anything home. I found 1 dead adult in 1 pod. For anything that looked suspicious or made me nervous, I packed them back up in completely sealed boxes (every edge completely taped) or sealed clear bags to bring home. Lots of rolls of tape have been used. Oh, and it’s a new home that’s way better sealed up, and haven’t found a single carpet beetle in any form. Another 5 weeks later, I just opened one of the boxes from storage, again very carefully inspecting, and discovered something crawling off in the corner of the box. It was a larvae! Alive! Lived through about 10 weeks exposed to one of these strips and another 5 weeks sealed in a box of books. Either these aren’t as effective as Nuvan, or carpet beetles are resistant now, which I did read in my research. I squished it—the ONLY sure way of killing them. If you have the larvae, just fyi, they play dead. Try putting one in a ziplock after you use any pesticide on it, seal it up well, then look the next day and it will be alive. Cimexa dust helps, but the larvae will evade it so you basically have to drown them in the dust and it’s messy. You can get your house tented and gas fumigation (like what’s done for termites). But there is no easy way. These strips probably work if you are dealing with a different pest that is not indestructible. If I ever get carpet beetles again, I will still probably put these in closets just in case it helps at all and will put most stuff sealed up in storage with these or something like it, very sealed up, for a longer period, and then just clean clean clean every corner of the house. You can get rid of them if you are meticulous about how you store and seal things, declutter to make vacuuming easier, buy a really good strong vacuum. Eventually you will get them all. Time and persistence.

I've been battling fruit flies all summer and here into fall, It was never a huge infestation, just a few here and there, mostly in the Kitchen, but a few in the bathroom and occasionally buzzing in my face in the den. At first I just thought, well this is just summer in Michigan, bugs are a part of life, but eventually I got to my boiling point of having them buzz by my face one too many times so I decided to do something about it. I tried the home remedies first, all this praise over simple apple cider vinegar, and dish soap, I made several home made traps from recommendations I saw on some Youtube Videos, all swearing by the Apple Cider Vinegar, I put these out around where I saw the flies most frequently, mostly in the kitchen around the sink, and I never caught a single fruit fly, but my whole house stunk of Apple Cider Vinegar. I saw this low down in the recommendations here on Amazon, and thought, what's the worst that could happen, sure it says not to use in your house, but I'm a grown man, with no children or pets to worry about, so I thought worst case, I may get a little sick from it, but if I noticed any ill effects, I could just toss it and be out $7, I just ordered the one, because I had my skepticism and didn't want to waste any more money, if this too was a dud, and if it worked somewhat, and wasn't killing me, I could just order a few more, as it only took a day to get to my house. So on the day it arrived, I took it out of it's package and hung it over the sink. It didn't smell bad, not much of a smell at all really, unless you get right up to it and sniff it (probably not a good idea, it is poison after all, so I'm not recommending you do that). I checked on it two hours later, and the fruit flies were still hanging out around the sink, so I thought, well this doesn't work either. Gave it another two hours though, and checked again, and not a fruit fly one anywhere in sight. Not only that, I haven't seen a single one of those little buggers since anywhere in the house. They're just gone, Vanished. I imagine the died off somewhere, but they're so small, that unless they're moving, they're hard to spot, I'd imagine that many a little fruit fly carcass will have been vacuumed up, or else went back down the drain to die. I've left it hung up these last few days, just in case, but haven't noticed any ill effect to my health, no lingering odor, and no ill effect to any food I've prepared in the area. I'll probably take it down in a few more days just to be safe and move it out to the garage to kill off some bugs out there as it's supposed to last up to 40 days, so maybe I'll be able to get rid of any spiders or insects that have decided to winter in there out of this thing as well, which is a bonus. As far as the "Don't use it in your House" warnings, I'm convinced now that it's just some legal safety net for the company rather than an actual real danger. Long term exposure, who knows, maybe if you kept it up in an area you frequent for the full 40 days, yeah, it could start to affect you, but for a day or to to let it knock out the problem, you'll probably be fine. I can tell you one thing for sure though, I'll be buying a few more of these once spring comes back around to place out in my garage and on my back porch where I always have problems with flies and spiders so I can see how this thing really handles, and next time I get any fruit flies, this will be my first step in eliminating them rather than the last thing I try. Simply enough, IT WORKS!

What I like most is the design. I got these to use on my office desk when those pesky gnats come around. It’s functional and discreet.