Fruit tree grease band

They work on our apple tree. Within a day, 4 creepy crawlies caught going up. Also anti ant. However you need to follow the instructions and change as indicated - the “stick” does decline over time and with weathering. Don’t leave gaps between the band and bark - tie as tight as possible.

With the range of views being expressed in reviews I was a little hesitant tk buy this product, but very glad I did. I thought it would be valuable to others to address a few of the recurring themes in other reviews. Stickiness and ease of application: This product is extraordinarily sticky and this will get all over your hands during application. Gloves are absolutely essential and a second pair of (gloves) hands is extremely helpful. We found one person unfolding the band and wrapping around the tree, with another person cutting to length and securing to be the best process. Included twine The included twine might be usable on large trees, but on my small saplings it was absolutely useless. Chuck it before you start and grab a roll of decent electrical tape. This also helps with knobbly trunks as you can bend the band over the bump and secure it top and bottom. This has closed up all of the little gaps allowing ants under the band. Ants crossing the grease: Yes the ants can still cross the grease, it slows them down a fair bit but they make it across. Regardless of this fact the number of ants above the band has reduced from several dozen per day, to a singular ant in the week since. It is definitely discouraging them from crossing, so serves its purpose quite well. I'd be happy to recommend this product to others with ant problems in fruit trees to be used in conjuction with other pest control measures such as water jetting and manual removal of ants (the sticky gloves after applying are brilliant for picking ants off of the leaves)

Simple to follow instructions but make sure you wear rubber protective gloves to avoid coming into contact with the sticky surface

Very hard to apply. Did not work for very long. Ants got stuck on it and then created a bridge for others to invade the tree. Thevpaint is so much easier tonapply and works much better as well.

Top quality product

You have to keep replacing the sticky thing around the tree, especially after a couple of rainfall as it totally looses it's stickiness. Overall it dies the job and has trapped lots of pesty ants crawling up my apple tree.

This product works

Well pleased with product. It was easy to use.