Tanglefoot 0461306 Insect Barrier Kit Combo

Wonderful at doing its job: creating an impassable barrier for crawling insects. Personal Tip: It is extremely sticky and will not wash off. You can keep using your hands in outside activities (like garden/yardwork) and it will quickly wear off without you noticing. I recommend NOT using gloves as it will not come as easily off anything else as it will your skin. I use a dedicated palette knife blade for application as I found that's what works best for me. I 'clean' it by wiping on grass. A little goes a long, long, long way. If your target is in direct sun for most of the day, you will find you need more frequent applications. At the heat of summer, I was applying every two weeks. Outside of that window, 3-4 weeks was the norm. Sun will make it run off and you will start to see a few stray ants: time to re-apply. I've seen some reviews saying you do not need to apply the entire width of the included barrier roll (3"-4"); Yes, yes, you do. The bodies of insects will build up and they WILL train/bridge across it in self sacrifice to reach the fruit. Do not give them such little room to reach across as to negate all your set-up. Keep the layer thin but cover any gaps. Towards the end of the season, I simply touched up by applying a thin strip (1") above the initial barrier and let it drip down to meet the established barrier; this worked for me instead of removing paper and then re-applying another 4" barrier. Even if I had, would still have a lot left, but time saved. You will also need something to tie the paper barrier around your target so it stays in place. The paper is only there to give you the option to apply it to a removable media instead of directly to bark. I've done both. With frequent applications needed, I find fussing with paper to be tiresome and chose not to. It will not harm the tree. It does have an added benefit of instantly displacing any squirrel that jumps on at that point, tho. They hate it, but it is funny (if annoying) to see their paw prints all the way up the trunk. Highly recommend this all natural product. Read the instructions, as it's very important that no other access to the targets can be around for it to work (i.e., stakes for a tree; anchor lines, string, or other route of bypass to the canopy/fruit-bearing access).

I have multiple bee hives that are top bar hives (rectangle boxes that stand off the ground with 2x4 instead of the traditional cubes you might be used to) and I started to get some free loading ants setting up shop for the honey my bees were making. Being a responsible owner of bees I couldn't see their hard work going to these invaders so I searched around for how to stop this invasion. The ants were coming into the hive via the 2x4 supports and they were unapologetic and showed this by straight up building a hive adjacent to the bees. Apparently some people have used tanglefoot to stop them from coming up so figured I would do the same. Great idea on paper, horrible in real life. This stuff is a two part process. First you wrap the 2x4 with this bandage looking stuff then you smear this what I can best describe as asphalt filler on it and presto you're supposed to have a barrier. A couple problems come up, the bandage stuff isn't adhesive so wrapping it on vertical beams and having it stay is a Herculean task in itself. Let's say by some magic way you do wrap something well then comes the part of applying the tangle foot. You can wear gloves but you're gonna saturate your entire body with this stuff worse than a Chernobyl clean up worker gets covered in radiation. In the end the ants got dark on me and literally built a land bridge using their dead for other to walk across. It was really quite morbid so yeah mixed results.

We used this last year on several trees that attract Lanternflies with great success. We had to staple the band to the trees to prevent gaps, but the trees are mature and handled it well. The sticky stuff is sticky enough to capture the nymphs, but we did not notice any other creatures like butterflies, bees, or birds getting stuck to it, as we heard happened with the green fly tape people were using. The traps stopped thousands and thousands of nymphs from climbing to higher reaches of the tree, so it was a good start to multi-approach used last year. We are hopeful that we will have even better success this year.

The paper part was impossible to usefully attach to an older oak tree with very rough bark. Maybe it would be ok on a smoother bark. The sticky/oozy part was very messy. I used gloves which is an absolute must, but it ended up everywhere...on my scissors, the ground, the door knob. With the gloves, I couldn't feel it and when it was really thin, I didn't see it. A pain to clean up after. Worse, I carefully wrapped several layers of plastic wrap around a new tree I planted (small diameter) and even though I thought I had put the gooey stuff on quite thin, it still ended up dripping down onto the tree bark by the next day. Probably as bad for the tree as the gypsy moths would have been...hopefully not worse. Very messy to remove without hurting the tree even more. I would not purchase this again, but maybe someone else would have better luck. There are a lot of bugs stuck to it, just not gypsy moths.

Yes, this product would be great if the idea and application worked as described in the ad. The paper provided to go around the tree is difficult to keep in place. The paste that comes in the tub simply melts in the sun after application and it is not even hot yet up here in Upstate NY. Not happy with the product and would return if we could. The best solution at this point is to wrap your trees with plastic wrap or shrink wrap and then apply the insect paste. But we are not sure even if that application will work. Other reviews state that the Tanglefoot paste is not the same product as it was before. I would tend to believe them. If things change I will update this review.

Works great

Stay sticky despite the Summer heat. Has an order that attracts all of the flying insects that ruin ones apples. Painted on the trunk it keeps the ants from killing the lady bugs as they can't climb the tree trunk thus they cant cause damages. I use it on apple and cherry trees. I just put some on my fruit trees last week. Getting ready for spring. The sooner it's applied the adult insects get trapped thus they are unable to lay eggs, therefore their numbers will go down the next year. Have used it for years.

Pros: There is ALOT of product here. And it takes the THINNEST amount to scrape onto the paper. I could have treated my Maple 6 times. With proper tacking onto the tree, I can see how this will stop crawlers from getting up a tree. HOWEVER from reviews, I thought it would work for CATCHING Spotted Lantern Fly nymphs and older. It does not. They didn't crawl past, but they also didn't get stuck to it. I also hoped I could stop them migrating from the trunk out along the branches. No to that also. They began to jump over it from the ground and branch to branch (I placed a ring at 3.5ft and another at 5ft above the ground and around a zone 2 feet out from the trunk before branches fork). In the end, I returned it. Note: this was to supplement a trap we already built and installed. We are also using a 3" wide sticky tape (cut from the wide roll) to help catch strays (on vertical bark where birds can't "land" and squirrels easily step over).

Easy to use and a must have for cherry trees!

I am happy with the product. It is exactly as described. One caution though - Wear disposable gloves when taking the Tanglefoot container out of the plastic wrap. Mine leaked a bit and the container was covered in the Tanglefoot.

Looks and sounds like what is required. Can't wait to try it....

works good

There were no instructions as how to use. It came with no tape