To reach the highest concentration of insects, place the KATCHY Indoor Insect Trap nearby trouble areas or place where you frequent often.

You can sort of see through the tiny mesh screen at the bottom how many bugs are stuck so you know when to switch it out, but be careful not to open the bottom up too frequently, or you’ll let bugs that haven’t gotten stuck on the trap yet go free. This indoor insect trap combines fan suction, attractive ultraviolet (UV) light, and a sticky pad, all in a fashionable design, to create a safe and sanitary solution. The UV light and fan combine to attract bugs from just about anywhere within eyesight and hold them down until they die. Not to mention, the at-home DIY solutions don’t work when you’ve got tons of flies multiplying every day and spreading to other rooms in your house. The Katchy Indoor Insect Trap has saved my house and my roommates from yet another summer of fruit fly madness.

Generally, we think that the process of delivering the products from USA to India would be very expensive and complicated. Especially since the manufacturer recommends putting the trap NEAR the insects and running it at night - under those conditions a few unlucky bugs are sure to stumble into any trop!

Oh yeah, and it even comes in your choice of white or black, but the UV light is always a purple-ish color.There are three different types of Katchy machines, but they all operate on the same premise: A UV light at the top that attracts bugs, a fan that then sucks them down into the machine, and sticky paper on the inside of the machine that then traps them. It's OK for tiny insects like gnats, fruit flies and mosquitoes, but the adhesive on the glue cards isn't strong enough for flies. This indoor trap features only a single source of noise – a relatively quiet fan that resembles a standard fan in terms of volume. At the bottom is a glue pad that doesn’t let go, killing the insects over time without using any chemicals.

With its non-toxic and no zapping formula the KATCHY is great for families who have a small bug problem (though it struggles with trapping larger pests). We uphold strict editorial standards and carefully vet the advice and resources referenced in our articles. This can hurt its range during other times of the day, and the lack of scented bait also limits the potential to attract pests.KATCH RELIEF: with 3X TRAP POWER the UV light attracts the fruit fly, gnat, or mosquito, the fan sucks it in, and the sticky glue boards trap it. The grey and white one in particular has very fine hair and a very full coat despite daily brushing/grooming.

A third user said they noticed a difference in just 24 hours after trading in a natural fly remedy for the Katchy. Unfortunatly (or fortunately) the weather has been cool here and we don't have our usual volume of mosquitoes for more robust testing.The manufacturer recommends placing the trap close to where the insects are - near a fruit bowl, near the trash - and running it for several hours in a dark room. Trapping power: the 3-level system uses the light to draw the insects, the fan, which sucks them into the system, and the glue trap which holds them in place. To make the most of this product, we recommend putting it wherever the greatest concentration of bugs ends up.