CatchmasterTree Shield Lantern Fly & Ant Traps Insect Barrier, 4 Rolls 30ft Each, Outdoor Adhesive Crawling Insect Trap, Glue Traps to Protect Trees, Fruit & Plants, Pest Control Lawn & Garden

This stuff works! We bought it to try to save our maple tree from spotted lantern flies. We have caught so many on this tape. It is very easy to set up/apply and makes a line on the tree trunk the younger stages of the flies cannot cross, so they cannot go up into the tree to feed. We change out the tape about once a week. It also holds up well to strong rain and keeps its sticky surface.

This stuff is amazing and gets the job done! The first pictures are from when I first put it up after just 1 hour, the last pictures are a couple days after… definitely doing its job!

Overall, the tree shield worked as hoped for my need which was to try to control spotted lantern fly nymphs from crawling up into my beautiful 40 foot Autumn Blaze Maple tree. It caught almost all of them as long as the insect stepped across the narrow outer band that doesn't have glue on it. Most of them put one leg onto the shield paper with the glue and imnedgot stuck. Then they typically would place another leg down to try to break away and then really get caught. We had tried need oil spray- even spraying it directly on them- but it seemed to do nothing in fact they might have thanked us for the shower. But this they can't defeat. The only slight negative is that the under side of the shield strip is very slick like wax paper and when one tries to adhere it to itself so that it stays in place, it's not that easy. You must overlap it a lot, and that wastes more product.

good idea that does not work. the tape is paper, so there is no stretch (tree trunks are not like metal poles,) and the paper tears as you are trying to attach it to itself. It winds up sticking to you fingers and either tearing or wrinkling, so you can't get a tight wrap. I was using this on young trees with a trunk diameter of under 3."I would up having to put flagging tape on the top and bottom, and that still wasn't great, so I will go back to the old method of wrapping with flagging tape and then painting with sticky stuff meant for this. This is about ants, so I really need it tight against the trunk. Maybe it works for larger trees and larger crawly things

I was determined to be on top of the Spotted LAntern Fly issue this year and know that the battle all begins with the Nymphs as they hatch, this tape was my first purchase and one that I will buy and stock up on. PLEASE COVER WITH A LIGHT CHICKENWIRE!!! I simply cut a piece of chicken wire and gave it a contour to lay over the tape, the bark on my tree is so rigid that there was no nailing needed to hold the wire in place but this part is IMPORTANT because this tape is so sticky that it will for sure catch unwanted allies such as the yard birds and no one wants that. This tape has stayed perfectly sticky even after all the fierce rains thats we have had lately. The only reason I’ve changed this tape is because it caught so many nymphs that there was barely room for more. I’ve taken out tens of thousands of Nymphys thanks to this wonderful product. It is super simple to use too. Just unroll it while you all around the tree and stick it to itself firmly around the trunk. This was money well spent as you can see in the photo.

So.. for catching bugs, it does a pretty good job! If you have a tree with deep grained bark, it’s mostly going to catch flying insects however. Smaller insects and caterpillars can still travel in the grooves and under the tape. Did catch a lot of flying insects, and the woodpeckers managed to perch below it and pick off the bugs. HOWEVER, we also had a finch get trapped on it with its wing.. this stuff is SUPER sticky, and in the end, the bird did not survive despite us being able to pull him free as gently as we could. :( We will find other use for this since it is sticky and handy for flying insects, but will not hang it around trees again.

This is the first year I have a spotted lanternfly infestation in my backyard, so was looking for ways to stay it off for a while. Bought this tape to wrap around trees that have a lot of nymphs on them. Sad to say, it does not really work - they sense the stickiness and don't try to walk through it, they are just sitting like happy campers under or above it.

This is nothing more than waxpaper with glue on one side. It tears very easily. I honestly don't think that I purposely added this to my cart, I think the link adding it to my cart must have ended up with this product. I wanted a breathable cloth tree wrap but didn't thoroughly review my cart items before placing my order.Update: I didn't intend to order this product but I did use it on one of my trees. Once I received the cloth tree wrap that I had intended to order I removed the waxpaper glue wrap and was surprised to see how many insects were trapped on the waxpaper product. Thus if you are wanting to trap a particular bug that is infesting your trees this would work well. The glue is very sticky so be careful not to touch the glue portion any more than needed.