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

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

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