Catchmaster Tree Banding Insect Barrier DIY 15oz Pail, Lanternfly & Ant Traps, Outdoor Adhesive Crawling Insect Trap to Protect Trees, Fruit & Plants

This stuff works! This is our second year using it on our fruit trees. Keeps the ants and other crawling/flying critters out effectively. It seems a little pricey, but we have found nothing comparable. Sorry manufacturer, but user tip, don’t bother paying for the applicator. Just use a plastic spoon or something else you can throw away because there is no way to clean it off. It’s a one use. Yes it’s messy but kind of fun.

Catchmaster Tree Banding Insect Barrier is a practical solution designed for gardeners and homeowners looking to protect their trees from crawling insects. By wrapping this band around the trunk, it creates a sticky barrier that traps pests like caterpillars, ants, and beetles before they can reach the foliage and cause damage. One of the standout features of this product is its ease of use. The band is simple to apply and adheres securely without harming the tree. It’s also weather-resistant, ensuring it stays effective throughout the season. Many users appreciate how it reduces the need for chemical pesticides, offering a more eco-friendly option for pest control. Overall, the Catchmaster Tree Banding Insect Barrier is a reliable and efficient way to keep trees healthy and pest-free. If you’re seeking a low-maintenance, non-toxic method to protect your trees, this product is definitely worth considering.

This is so sticky and tacky not for direct use on tree

Since Tanglefoot in the tub was discontinued, it seemed there was no suitable substitute out there. I took a chance with this product and I'm pleased to say that it worked just as well if not better! It does seem to be thicker, making the application process just a bit harder, but it stays put. It is extremely sticky, it does not run in the heat and there is no odor. I apply blue painters tape to a ball cap and spread the product thinly over the surface with a popsicle stick to snag those annoying, biting deer flies that are so numerous this time of the year. The picture shows the flies that were caught after just five minutes! Kudos to Catchmaster for making an equivalent, if not superior product.

Purchased to catch spotted lantern flies, if you don't know what they are, wait a few minutes and you will. They are taking over the country, destroying anything and everything. They are fond of vegetation in general and are hard to kill. If you try and step on them they jump before you can get them. The trick is to get your foot in front of them. They can only jump forward, so if you get in front they have to jump into your foot! Remember where you learned this... Anyways, resistance is futile, their is not enough feet in the world to stomp them all out! They spread and multiply faster than rabbits on spring break. You will be amazed that the first time you see them you will see thousands of them, then next year a million of them will be there! Then they are literally every place you look, covering your entire house! No exaggerating! The trick to this is that they lay their eggs in trees and at night they walk up the trees and homes and everything else to eat sleep and reproduce. So you wrap the tree a few feet of the ground with some plastic food wrap or shrink wrap and then spread this sticky stuff onto the plastic all the way around the tree. The next day it is covered by thousands of flies! That's when you are grateful I gave you the plastic wrap advice. Just peel it off and toss it out and start over again. Your mind is going to be blown at the amount of these flies you will catch daily. Only bad part is that this large tub isn't going to put a dent in the population and you will be going insane with how many their are. Stock up on this stuff though because this is about the best stuff you can find for the job, I tried everything else and this brand is the best! It isn't going to be a cure for the problem at all, but if you have fruit trees or any food baring tree, they will destroy in just days. And they haven't found any type of insecticide that even touches these things. But even if they did, would you want it on your food? So this is it! Get it now before the price climbs up. It's not an if it happens situation, it is going to happen and it's happening fast! They spread across 2 states in a year or less, they have no enemy and they have nothing to fear, if it can kill them, it can kill anything. This is a chemical free solution that won't put a dent in the problem but can save the tree it's on! Again, this is not a drill! Buy it now!

I first tried the Catchmaster Tree Shield Insect Barrier glue TAPE. Over a few weeks, with about 30 traps, I caught thousands of of small, immature spotted lantern flies. But the adult lantern flies walk up to the tape, feel it a bit with the long feet, and then walk away without getting stuck. So I figured the gloppy tree banding glue, also made by Catchmaster, would do the trick. I was wrong. This very messy glue caught very few adult lantern flies. (Just a few of the dumber ones.) As with the tape, the spotted guys would touch the glue a bit and then go down the tree away from the glue. A few even walked all the way onto the glue and still managed to walk away. This messy stuff that will stick to anything else, including your fingers, does not stick to lantern fly feet all that well. Also, in the 90° heat we’ve been having, large globs of the glue dripped off the plastic wrap and onto the tree. I suspect the glue may not be good for the tree. I'm not impressed with these Catchmaster products. Effective for small lantern flies only.

Catchmaster works great! I smeared it on a blue coffee container to catch deer flies. Super easy to use. I used a tongue depressor to smear on a thin layer. It's sticky gooey stuff, exactly what I was expecting! I had that hanging outside, seeing sun about half the day, and this stuff never ran, dripped, moved which was awesome because I was worried about the stuff dripping onto the deck on a hot day. I would highly recommend for you to try for whatever sticky project you have. Next year I'll use the blue solo cups and try those because the blue caught 95+% dear flies only. I used vegetable oil to remove this sticky stuff off my hands along with paper towels, then repeated, then washed with soap and water.

I rarely write product reviews, but I was surprised that catchmaster actually worked so decided to make the effort. I am in the midst of a great war with multiple armies of leaf cutter ants, all determined to take down my rose bushes The directions to wrap a tree trunk with plastic wrap was not very doable for my roses But I found two methods that worked. For my climbing rose, which only has a few heavy stems I wrapped them each with tree wrap, and then smeared the goop right onto the tree wrap. That worked great until they climbed up the wall so then I smeared some on the wall and that also worked. For the smaller rose bushes that had too many stems to try and coat. I used an old mountain bike innertube. It was really easy to smear the goop onto something as heavy duty as the innertube, and then I just laid the tube around the entire bush. The leaf cutter ants, which don’t seem to be deterred by anything else, refuse to cross a sticky patch — a 2-3 inch band is sufficient to stop them completely. Warning that it is very sticky and even though I wore disposable gloves which I threw away, I still managed to get it on my hands. Wash with warm water and soap then moisturize wipe the moisturizer off with an old towel and repeat seemed to work.