Adult Chafer Beetle Trap - Natural Pheromone Trap

The advice was to put this out in early May and through June. I know there are chafers about - our lawn, and others in the street were completely trashed by grubs last year and we've had the ground rotovated and returfed. When peeling back dead grass last year there were thousands of chafers, spaced individually about every 2 centimeters. The blackbirds thought every day was their birthday.So it may be that it's a little early yet, but I haven't caught any chafer beetles at all. On the other hand, there was a flowering shrub close by where I first hung the pheromone trap, and within 2 days, a dozen or more bees (all types - hive bees and solitary bees) were all caught. Some died before I realised and let the survivors out. Since re-hanging the trap away from flowers, there have been a few tiny beetles caught and only one bee.I'll update this review as things progress and it starts to catch (or not) chafer beetles. I certainly hope it works.EDIT 7 JULY -- Useless. The device has been hanging as instructed since the beginning of May and I replaced the attractant / pheromone after 5 weeks (supposed to last 6). In that time - and bearing in mind the intensity of the chafer attacks on my lawn last year, and all my neighbours' lawns - it's caught two chafer beetles. Two! It's also lured between 40 and 50 bees (some, I regret to say, to their deaths) and countless small unidentifiable beetles - little black things a couple of mm long. Even if the nematodes I aplied to the lawn earlier had munched all the chafer grubs so there were no beetles to hatch, then there should have been beetles from my neighbours' lawns.Waste of money.

I liked the idea that most of the beetles would be destroyed but unfortunately after 17 days all we have caught was a bee each day and the odd small fly. Still hoping that at least one will find its way into the trap.

I didn't use this the second year as bees were also attracted to the pheramones and then died in the trap. Might be better if the colour changed.

Oh dear in 3 days - e bumble bees caught- very sad ref this - thought it was only for beetles- cannot use this and kill beesMy friend had similar experience

It looks promising, but has not caught any beetles after a couple of weeks.

Sadley it caught more bees than schafer beetles. Withdrawn from use.