The Original Katchy Indoor Insect Trap - Fan Powered with UV Light - Fruit Fly Traps for Indoors - for Fruit Flies, Gnats, Mosquitoes, Moths (Black)

The item arrived broken :( I am SUPREMELY disappointed because I was so excited at the thought of having an effective method to combat my nemesis that is the mischievously thriving fruit fly colony which plagues me, and this item arrived this morning broken. :( The blades of the fan internally are not connected and are banging about inside. Though I don't normally pay full price for things unless necessary (I either wait for a good sale or use applicable coupons/promo codes), I took the plunge on this purchase due to my need for a competent and efficient resolve combined with it's GLOWING reviews! First, I had to wait 9 days to receive the item, which I wasn't happy about, but not upset either. I have literally been checking tracking daily and looking forward to it's arrival. Then it arrives *HAPPY DAY*. I opened the package, removed the unit (felt/heard something odd but didn't think too much of it at that moment), reviewed the directions, plugged it in and although the light came on, the fan did not. I thought maybe I need to press a particular button or what-have-you, so I re-read the directions. Nope, it should be automatic. So I then began inspecting the unit and realized the fan blades were not connected. I then even looked for a way to open the unit without busting it so that I can fix it myself (I'm incredibly handy and that's how much I wanted this to work!). No go. I could probably open it up, but then it wouldn't be returnable. Ok, so THEN I go to the item link on Amazon and as of earlier today, it said "This item is currently unavailable" followed by something to the effect of 'and we don't know if or when it will become available'. I attempted to contact the seller to no avail. My only viable option was and is to return it. I don't want to return it for a refund or leave a bad review. Rather, I want the working unit I paid and patiently waited for. Errrrr. I decided to go about my day knowing I'd come back to this later and here I am. ... I pull the item up this evening, it is in fact available again, but instead of the $39.79 price I paid 9 days ago, it is right now (6/15/2018) listed at $54.49. Whaaaa?? So I am leaving this review in hopes that the seller will contact me and make good on my purchase, at which point I would update my review to reflect the working conditions of this seemingly enigmatic device. In summary, this 1 star review encompasses only that the item arrived broken and therefore did not operate as intended. A working unit may very well be worthy of all it's positive reviews. And maaaaybe even the new $54.49 price. I hope I am a unique case. I also hope this review was of help to you. Update 6/17/18: The seller contacted me today apologizing for my inconvenience and explaining that Amazon is responsible for the damage done during the shipping of this product. I responded immediately that I appreciate the response and although I completely understand that Amazon assumes the shipping responsibility, I am also concerned that I cannot repurchase a working unit at the price I paid 2 weeks ago. I inquired how this can be rectified, stating that I fully intend to update my review according to their level of service and the actual benefits of a working unit. And now I await their response. Honestly, if I have to repurchase at the higher price, I won't and I'll leave my review star at 1. It's not the price as much as the principle. Products can be damaged in shipping, that's understandable. But the seller is also responsible for commitment. So I'm really hoping they come through with a reasonable resolve that honors the price I paid for a working unit. I'll keep you posted. Update 7/1/18: The seller not only replaced my originally bought unit, but included extras as well. They have been extremely diligent in correspondence and I can honestly say that I am not only satisfied, but impressed. With that said, I would not have altered my review to 5 stars for customer service alone. ...these units works amazingly! The home I live in was built in 1924 and does not sport insulation the way a new home would. So pests are/can be/were a problem. The units do in fact attract flying things very well! The sticky pad of results had 2 bugs I didn't know I had and don't recognize. I am extremely happy with my purchase! And may very well buy more. The unit itself is aesthetically pleasing and is relatively quiet. Night is the best time for results since that's when it's darkest and the bugs can 'see' the light. The blue light transitions in brightness, which is even more effective in attracting it's prey. I'm changing my review from a 1 star to a 5 star. I saw other reviews stating it was a flimsy design. I do get what they're saying, but how thick must this unit be to rectify that?? It works as intended and looks good doing it. The bottom is easy to open to check and/or replace the sticky pad. There are only 2 buttons so it's super easy to operate. And it doesn't look like a bug catcher at all. No one would know. So I feel it's 'flimsiness' (is that a word?) is of no concern. As long as it performs, who cares how heavy or thick it is? This is 5 stars from someone who had to work for it. I hope this review helped you! Happy bug hunting :)

If you live out in the country then you already know the bugs are MANY (different,) kinds and PLENTY (of them.) We live surrounded practically in a forest of acres. When the weather starts to warm I turn our whole house fan on and when the air gets sucked through the windows to cool the house off with the air outside the tiniest insects get sucked in with the air -straight into the window screen holes.. , it’s along the lines of the window being wide opened …. Fruit flies or smaller insects… which a couple of them are fine , however when there’s so many of them your window seal is black from the amount of them on it that’s TO many for me. Problem is that some of these insects are so small you can hardly see them to catch and if you do they’re so lightweight because of how tiny they are that they’re hard to suck down the vacuum!.. I spent close to 2 hours trying to clean up these little bugs but they just kept coming,,, I finally remembered I had this bug catcher (I forgot I had it even though I use it every time this season when I use our whole house fan because I can’t use it if I don’t use this the night of or my house would be I fested with these tiny bugs getting sucked into my house from the window air being sucked in from the house fan. I could not survive with out this!!.. not only it sucks them in but once there in they can’t get back out and then eventually fall to the bottom where you place a sticky bug trap. (I read someone else’s tip to purchase the larger squares and make a sample to use to cut out everytime you need to replace. This thing works and works WELL. The very second I turned it on these little bugs saw the led light and they all started walking towards it and then shortly after were gone! … it’s like an outside bug zapper but without the zap and smoke lol. It’s SO worth it especially if you live in the country!!!

The newer version is better. The original has only high, low, and off options, which means it is always on. The newer version with an automatic on when it gets dark in a room, is the version of which I have two. That said this is a WONDERFUL product. It is easy enough to find generic version of the 4.3 inch round sticky pads. I have three Katchy traps now and I go through a lot of the sticky pads every week. In the southern states the skeeters and gnats are ever-present reguardless of the season. This device is much better than spraying pestisides inside the house.

I am embarrassed to have purchased this device and to have fallen for the false advertising and to not have read the negative reviews before buying. Firstly, the fan power is not enough to catch fruit flies or gnats. How do I know this? After 3 days of not catching anything, by my sink, where there was an infestation of fungus gnats, I plugged the Katchy into a portable battery pack and tried to manually catch the ones hanging out on the walls... unless I pushed the device fan right up to a pest, there wasn't enough air-draw to pull in anything! I am serious, the gnats could resist flying into the device unless I managed to get them within 1/2inch from the fan... that is complete craziness! Why didn't they install a more powerful fan? Forget using low power, much less the normal setting... seriously underpowered! The fan is absolutely useless. Secondly, the purple light... oh my don't even get me started, even as the only light source in the entire house at night and even left on all day, no gnats or fruit flies are attracted to it. It's obviously not the right frequency to attract insects even if the fan was powerful enough to pull in the pests. As if not bad enough, then Thirdly, I realized the "super sticky" circles at the base of the Katchy are not nearly tacky enough to capture anything. Other people have called them out on this, but I didn't realize until they arrived how bad they are. Fourthly, Did you know Katchy's advertising is photoshopped? Ya, the sticky circles they show hundreds of gnats stuck to are doctored photos. I've run the Katchy for nearly a week 24/7 and caught only single moth and two gnats I manually caught... despite a massive gnat infestation. The sticky circles are such a waste of money... and I bought an extra set with the device anticipating needing more! Fifthly, did you know Katchy has been offering people $ to remove their negative reviews of the product?! OMG... how is that ok? Why hasn't Amazon stepped in and killed this product? I am just so disappointed. I thought the people who advertised Katchy on YouTube seemed a little unreliable, most acknowledge there are better solutions. Well I tried everything... here's a ranking of solutions for how I have finally gotten rid of my fungus gnat infestation: 1) I repotted all my house plants after I literally took a garden hose and rinsed off all the plant roots and pots completely. After I washed everything thoroughly, I then watered with "Mosquito Bites tea" that I made per online how-to videos. I also used transparent window sticky traps. After three days, all the adult bugs were captured, and all the larvae appear to be dead and not hatching anymore. That's it... that's all I had to do... meanwhile I kept the freakin Katchy device running in the background and ya, it did nothing, even with a few pieces of fresh lemon and orange put on the sticky circles. Do yourself a huge favor, don't purchase this thing. The creators took a concept which would probably work and went cheap on the manufacture of it in every respect and they are laughing to the bank making a fortune over charging for a device that doesn't work. They need to put a real UV lamp in it, double the fan power, and use much more powerful adhesive before this device has any hope. I sincerely hope this review helps you make the right decision.

THE INSTRUCTIONS STATE TO WAIT THREE DAYS TO SEE THIS UNIT IN ACTION. Therefore ,I will post review over a three day period. DAY 1 - The item arrived and it was super easy to setup. All you had to do was press a button open up the bottom compartment, place a glue-paper pad inside it (after you peel off the protective sheet off of the sticky side). Then you connect up the power cord, plug it in, and then choose a power setting from the two buttons on top (Low Setting and Standard Setting). I set it up at Standard Setting during the day, and then set it at Low Setting at overnight. I also set the unit up right beside an open bowl of Apple Cider Vinegar, to help attract the fruit fly pests to the unit. I checked it the next day, with the unit still running, and saw fruit flies flying and walking over the fan grills and not being sucked in at all. Meanwhile, the Apple Cider Vinegar bowl did it's job at attracting the fruit flies, and even killed a few that landed inside the bowl. DAY 1 VERDICT - ONE STAR, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T MDO A ZERO STAR RATING. IT STRAIGHT UP DID NOTHING. Day 2 - After turning it on the Standard setting, within a few hours, there were a few fruit flies stuck on the pad. After leaving it overnight, there weren't hardly any more fruit flies on the pad. Meanwhile, my apple cider vinegar and fly paper traps had a significantly higher of captured insects. In fact, these lure-trap combinations did better than the "Katchy", even though I paired it with an apple cider vinegar lure. DAY 2 VERDICT: It is now sucking in fruit flies, though not apparently attracting very many of them. Day 3 - The Katchy trap, on standard mode, works best in the dark. During the day, with ANY ambient lights on, insects just aren't attracted to it. Placing it next to another lure works - like a dish of apple cider vinegar. There are all kinds of DIY, Apple Cider Vinegar and soap solution traps you can pair with the Katchy, as well as fly paper strips and sheets. But the Katchy is not a one-and-done, singular solution to your fruit fly problem. Fruit flies reproduce FAST, and they lay about 400 eggs at once. They also live for 25-30 days, so you must focus on eliminate their food source, and then use traps to control their population. DAY 3 VERDICT - It starts slowly, and the results will not knock your socks off, if you were looking to this device to eradicate your pest problem. I can be used as PART of your more comprehensive pest plan, but it's not the silver bullet that they advertise themselves to be. THREE STARS. It's okay, but there are more effective solutions.

I normally don’t leave reviews but I love this so much I feel like I’d be doing it a disservice if I didn’t. It’s mosquito season in south Mississippi and somehow they keep getting into my house by the dozens! A few weeks ago, I woke up with something like 30 bites, swollen and itchy from head to toe. I was miserable! It kept getting worse over the next few days because I couldn’t seem to get rid of the little bloodsuckers no matter what I did. I was at wits end. Then my cousin recommended the Katchy. I looked at the reviews, got her experience with it, and decided why not? Y’all! This is the best purchase I’ve made all year! It’s caught so many mosquitoes! I move it from room to room on a regular basis so they don’t swarm in one area. It’s worked extremely well so far! My only complaint is the brightness so I can’t bring it into my bedroom at night when I’m sleeping, but I get around that by using it in there when I’m awake and then either turning it off or moving it. It’s also very quiet— like a small desktop fan would be. I would absolutely purchase this product again, I’m considering buying multiple, and I would recommend this to anyone who is struggling with a mosquito problem.

I’m not sure why there’s mixed reviews. The Katchy works great for us! We use it every night during mosquito season. As you can see from the pictures, it catches mostly gnats, fruit flies, & moths. Our wall plug units seem to catch the random mosquitoes that sneak in when the doors are briefly ajar. All in all, we love the Katchy! I recommend it and will continue using it. We leave it on the kitchen counter and let it run from bedtime to sun up.

I bought this item about 2 years ago. It always trapped small bugs like mosquitos and gnats without issues. Recently, it trapped a big mosquito too. The aor suction is so strong that the mosquito just got suckes into it. Since I had not replaced the sticky pad in awhile, the mosquito was able to crawl to sidewall; however, the bug was unable to leave the trap because of the strong suction.

The charger provided with the item is not EU compatible. When I use some other charger that I have, UV light and fan works but couldn’t catch a single mosquito in a dark room with more than 10 mosquitoes for several days.

This works perfectly, it actually helped us get rid of our fruit fly problem in our kitchen. When I opened the device after 1 week, I knew where all the fruit flies disappeared to hehe.

Great for small flies

cet appareil est livré avec le mauvais appareil électrique ! Nous sommes en France, PAS aux États-Unis!

Would prefer to have more than 5 stickers for the base, because it gets full really fast and now I have to try to find these stickers in the market and I don’t know where from..supplier should have it as an option when you buy Katchy to be able to buy more of these as they are essential for the use of the product.