Hi, We have had the fly trap about 5 years and it is holding up well, only need to replace the plastic sheets every other year we found. This is easy to do. In peak fly season we are scooping out large quantities of ugly, big flies with a fish scoop net we get in the pet aisle in any store. The trap seems to work very well. We hate those biting flies as much as the three horses we have do. Along with the fly predators for the normal flies, we are winning the war on all flies. Would recommend this fly trap to anyone with horses.

-Don and Laurie Selje, Wisconsin

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and of course the HORSE FLIES.  Yes, we have all of the above in Texas and ours are all Texas size, BIG.  I'm happy to say that thanks to Epps Biting Fly Trap there's a lot fewer biting flies of all types around our horses.  The first day I got the trap up and running I counted eighty dead in the soapy water.

 

The best thing I can say about the Epps is that it really works.  After its set up there's almost no effort in keeping it in operation and it works 24 hours a day with no electricity or harmful chemicals.  My horses checked it out one time and then just ignored it.

 

I recommend it to all who want to reduce their fly problem and make their horses a lot happier.

 

This is one of the best pieces of horse equipment I have ever bought!

 

Andy Espiau

Van, TX

I love my fly trap. I catch over 200 per day in the bad fly season.

 

Edsel Laitita

Pelkie, MI

 

We have owned the EPPS biting fly trap since July 2000.  We live in a heavily wooded area and the horse pasture is also quite wooded.  We have installed the fly trap along a fence line on the outside of the pasture.  It catches tons of bugs each year.  We catch deer flies, horse flies and other flies that we can’t identify.  It does catch other flying species that are actually good for the environment, bees and such, but that can’t be helped.  It does appear that the fly population has diminished somewhat but living in Central Wisconsin I don’t think they will ever go away completely.  We also have a couple of neighbors that have horses and they don’t use the fly trap, so that doesn’t help.  We can get two years out of set of deflector sheets.  At the end of the second year the plastic is pretty brittle and needs to be replaced. We generally set the unit up in May and take it down in late October. 

We would recommend the unit.

 

Thank you.

Sue Schmick

Wisconsin Rapids, WI

I raise American Paint Horses for a living. We at one time had 65 horses on our breeding farm.  My broodmares were being constantly bombarded with horseflies.  The flies would congregate on their udders.  This would inhibit the foals from sucking.  The horse flies would leave a trail of blood all over the mares under belly and the foal muzzles.  It was HORRIBLE!

I discovered the Epps Biting Fly Trap several years ago, and have not had a problem since!  The first summer we would count the flies in the trap, we'd get 100's every day.  The next summer the population had significantly decreased.  Now, they are hardly noticable, as long as my fly trap has water in it.

It's an incredible invention, no cost to use, very durable, and extremely good at catching biting flies.  I'm very happy with my fly trap.

 

Thank-you, very much.

 

Tracy Liller

Corry, PA

We have had the Epps Fly Trap for many years.  It is the only method we have found to decrease the number of the biting horse flies we have each summer.

 

Dick & Bernice Dunn

Seneca, Illinois

We recently relocated our alpaca farm to a 10+ acre property in the Gainesville area of Florida.  This was our first year of “horsefly” invasion and we were completely baffled as to what to do about this seemingly insurmountable problem.  We tried many of the suggested concoctions listed on the internet and none of them worked.  We then found your website and read some of the testimonials.  When we initially saw the cost of the EPPS fly trap, we thought that it was more than we would want to spend but decided that, if it worked, it would be well-worth the cost.  After we first installed the trap, we were very pleased with the results in the two closest fields to the trap but I was not sure if we would need to add another one to catch the flies that were in our other two fields.  When I called your company and spoke with Mark, he was extremely helpful and supportive.  He suggested that I give the trap about three weeks to catch more of the flies because he felt that the one trap should be more than adequate for our ten-plus acres.  We cannot tell you how pleased we have been with the trap.  Within about two weeks of the initial installation, we found a dramatic decrease in the number of flies in all four of our fields.  Our alpacas were not being bothered by anymore of these “monster” flies and neither were we when we out feeding or tending to the animals.  We strongly and wholeheartedly recommend your company and the EPPS fly trap to all alpaca farmers and anyone who has any type of livestock.  Thank you so very much for your product and your support.        

Pam and Ron Harshman

Camp Camelid Alpaca Farm

Old Town, FL                                                          

(352) 542-0734

www.campcamelid.com

 

We have tried everything to make the summer easier for our horses; the horseflies are terrible. We put the trap up in two places, the amount of flies (all sorts) that are caught is amazing. Our horses and donkeys are outside more, in fact our black horse used to stay in the barn all day to avoid the horse flies. Now he will venture out to graze. Our neighbors and vets have asked about it, I\'ve suggested it to the mini-donkey group I'm in too. The traps have really helped make the summer easier on all of us. Do recommend cleaning it regularly- and getting extra clear sheets. Just in case a donkey tries to play with it.
Thea

mittyisakitty@yahoo.com

 

I was a little skeptical if anything could could help with the horsefly problems we were having in south central Mississippi, but when my husband and I started looking online for answers....We decided to give the Epps Trap a try.  Oh my goodness!!! Within 20 hours of installation we had caught over 100 horse flies and numerous deer flies!! Shock and amazement would have been an understatement.  I would recommend this product hands down.  We are utterly thrilled... Our horses and ourselves are thankful for your product and we will be telling all our horse loving friends!!

Donna Rushing

donna.rushing@yahoo.com

 

Absolutely love my fly trap!!  My pasture borders a huge swamp, and the flies were so bad they could not go outside until dark.  Not anymore!  This is our second year with the trap, and I can\'t believe how few flies we have.  My horses can go outside all day now.  Another benefit - the local bird population had discovered that the trap is full of yummy bugs, so they spend the day eating out of it!!  I am so grateful not to have to use poisons, and to actually buy a product that works even better than it claims!  Thank you, thank you. 

Jennifer Cross

blueskyfarm@att.net

 

I must admit that I was not sure if the strange looking contraption we had put together was going to do any good with the tons of biting flies we have here in NC.

After a little struggle putting the trap together, we sat back and looked at it wondering what technology it used and if it was really going to work on our fly infestation. 

The next day I was blown away when I walked to the barn and saw the bottom tray FILLED with dead flies and bugs.   The top tray was almost overflowing.  

I emptied it and waited until that evening, figuring it had to be a fluke, certainly it did not work that well.

Only 11 hours later, the top tray was filled again.  The bottom was nearly filled.

The horses not only got used to it very quickly, but stayed around it during the heat of the day, not swishing their tails nor stomping their feet.  It didn’t take them long to figure out that was the best place to hang out and graze fly free!

 

That trap will be the first thing I put up every spring and the last thing I put away in the fall.

 

Lorraine Price

Wendell, NC

 

Just wanted to let you know that I was sceptical at best when I bought the Fly Trap from you, however, I have been proved wrong!   We have been using it for about a week and are convinced.   The first day we caught about 10 horse flys, and every day since the numbers have been going up.  We catch pretty much what you said we would catch plus a few others like Wasps and beetles.  We did see one horse fly the other day but in about an hour he was "History" in the fly trap.   It is easy to maintain just like you said.  So I thank you and so do my horses!

 

Thanks again,  Jeane New, Florence, SC

 

As a veterinarian I have found this product to be the most effective of its kind on the market today.  I first saw an Epps biting fly trap at a clients farm almost 8 years ago.  She told me how effective it was at killing the biting flies such as those huge Horse flies, Deer flies and May flies which are quite troublesome in our area.  She convinced me to try it and I was amazed at how it started to catch flies as we were setting it up.  We had caught and killed hundreds of flies in the first 24 hours.  Ever since I have recommended the Epps biting fly trap to all of my clients.  The horses even know where the trap is and enjoy the 'Fly Free Zone'.   It is also environmentally friendly since it uses no chemicals only liquid soap and water.

 

Angela Gell Stanaway, DVM

Bridle Creek Veterinary Service

473 Canoe House Road

Jamaica, VA 23079