FlyLock Indoor & Outdoor Fruit Fly Trap
4.7· 96 reviews. Rated 4.7 out of 5, read the reviews.The kitchen is where most people meet fruit flies, so that is where this trap is meant to go. It stands beside the fruit bowl, next to the bin, or wherever you can already see them, and the same trap hangs in a fruit tree, on a balcony or over the compost when you want it outside. FlyLock is a trap. It does not make a place feel unsafe so that something leaves, it draws insects in with a scent lure and holds them, and it is the only product on this site that does. Setup is four steps. Open the trap, add the lure, add water, then stand it or hang it. There is no traditional insecticide spray, no electricity and no batteries. Each trap stands about 20 cm tall and about 9 cm wide, and the trap itself is reusable, so when the chamber fills you empty it, rinse it, add fresh lure and water, and set it out again. Two things to read before you buy, both of them below in full. The lure is not food, and a trap in a kitchen belongs out of reach of children. And outdoors, a scent lure can attract bees as well as the insects you are aiming at, so keep it away from flowering plants and take it down while your garden is in bloom.
Final step: Commit
- Fruit fly trap, scent lure
- Kitchen counter or outdoors
- Lure and water, no insecticide spray
- Reusable, empty and refill
It hangs by the fruit bowl and holds what it catches.
Three steps. Then forget it.
Open the trap
The chamber opens by hand. There is nothing to assemble, no tool to find, and no instructions to read twice.
Add the lure
One lure goes into the chamber. The lure is the part that does the drawing in, so a trap without one is an empty bottle. A trap can be bought on its own or together with lures, and every multipack ships with lures included.
Add water
Water goes in on top of the lure and the trap closes again. Insects that follow the lure into the chamber go into the liquid, and the trap holds them there.
Stand it in the kitchen, or hang it outside
Indoors it needs no fixing at all. Stand it beside the fruit bowl, near the bin, or wherever you can already see them, keeping it off any surface you prepare food on and out of reach of children. Outdoors, the tab on top takes a wire, a hook, or a loop of string over a branch or a frame, and where you hang it matters: a scent lure can attract bees as well as the insects you are aiming at, so keep it away from flowering plants and take it down for the weeks your garden is in bloom. Either way, pick a spot you can reach easily, because you will be taking it down to empty it.
A scent lure trap for fruit flies, for indoor and outdoor placement. Lure and water go into the chamber, insects are drawn in, and the trap holds what it catches.
Made for the kitchen first
Fruit flies turn up around the fruit bowl, the bin and the recycling, so that is where the trap is meant to stand. It needs no hook and no wall fixing indoors, it just stands where the problem is. Keep it off the surface you prepare food on and out of reach of children, and read the safety section below before you put it out.
It is a trap, and we say so
Everything else PestRay makes works by making a place feel unsafe so the animal moves on, and nothing is caught. This one is the other thing. A scent lure draws insects into a closed chamber and the trap holds what it catches. If that is not what you want on your counter, the rest of the line is one click away on the shop page.
Four steps and it is running
Open the trap, add the lure, add water, then stand it or hang it. No tools, no assembly, and nothing to calibrate.
Reusable, not disposable
When the chamber fills up, empty it, rinse it, add fresh lure and water, and set it out again. The trap is the part you keep. The lure is the part you replace, and refills are sold on their own.
Nothing to power, nothing to plug in
No electricity, no batteries, nothing to charge, and no traditional insecticide spray to mix up and apply. It works on the lure and the water you put into it, and it makes no noise while it does.
Outdoors, bees can follow a scent lure too
This one matters less on a kitchen counter and not at all less in a garden, so it stays on the page. A scent lure does not read labels. Outdoors it can attract bees as well as the insects you are aiming at. Hang the trap away from flowering plants, and take it down while your garden is in bloom. If you keep bees, or your neighbours do, think hard about whether you want a scent lure hanging in that garden at all. We would rather you read this here than work it out at the branch.
Specs and what’s in the box.
- Type
- Scent lure trap for fruit flies
- Use
- Indoor and outdoor placement
- Indoors
- Stands beside the fruit bowl, the bin, or wherever they gather
- Outdoors
- Hangs in a fruit tree, a garden, a balcony, a patio, or a bin area
- Setup
- Four steps. Open, add lure, add water, stand or hang
- Size
- About 20 cm tall and about 9 cm wide
- Power
- None. No electricity and no batteries
- Spraying
- None. No traditional insecticide spray
- Reusable
- Yes. Empty, rinse, add fresh lure and water
- Lure
- Scent lure. Sold with the trap, or on its own as a refill
- Hanging
- Moulded tab on top for a wire, hook, or loop
- Safety
- Not for consumption. Keep out of reach of children. See the safety section on this page
- Placement note
- Not directly over a food-preparation surface. Outdoors, keep away from flowering plants
In the box
- The FlyLock trap chamber
- Hanging tab moulded into the lid
- Scent lure, on the versions that include one
- Setup card with the four steps
Read this before you put it in a kitchen.
This trap used to be sold for orchards, and a trap on a branch never meets a child. One standing beside a fruit bowl does, so the safety notes get more room here, not less. These are the manufacturer warnings in plain language, plus where the trap should and should not go.
- Not food
- The lure and the liquid in the chamber are not for consumption. They are not a food product and they are not a drink, whatever the trap smells like. Do not swallow either one.
- Keep from children
- Keep the lure and the trap out of reach of children. This matters more indoors than it ever did in a garden, because a chamber standing on a kitchen counter is at eye level for a small child and within arm reach of a curious one.
- Eye contact
- If the lure or the liquid gets into an eye, rinse the eye with clean water and seek medical attention.
Indoors
- Beside the fruit bowl, which is where most people need it.
- Near the bin or the recycling.
- Anywhere you can already see fruit flies gathering.
- In the kitchen, but not directly over a food-preparation surface.
- Out of reach of children.
Outdoors
- Fruit trees, the garden, a balcony or a patio.
- Bin areas, a greenhouse, or the vegetable patch.
- Away from flowering plants. A scent lure can attract bees as well as the insects you are aiming at, so take the trap down while your garden is in bloom.
- Somewhere you can reach without a ladder, because you will be taking it down to empty it.
Store spare lures cool, dry and sealed until you use them.
Versus the old ways.
| Feature | FlyLock | Sprays | Sticky strips | Bug zappers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scent lure capture | ✓ | — | — | — |
| No traditional insecticide spray | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| No electricity and no batteries | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Reusable, emptied and refilled | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Four step setup with no tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Indoor and outdoor placement | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
Real homes, real yards.
What 96 customers say.
Nothing to assemble, which I appreciated. I got it ready on the counter next to the fruit bowl because that corner is where they always gather. It was done before the kettle boiled.
It turned up empty and clean, and it is a lot smaller in the hand than I pictured from the photos. About the size of a water bottle. I filled it at the kitchen sink and had it hanging outside in about five minutes.
I did not expect much, honestly. This is it a while after I set it out, and there is a dark layer settled in the bottom of the chamber. I took the photo because nobody in the house believed me.
It hangs in the apple tree by the back steps. You do not need to walk up to it to know it is doing something, the dark band across the bottom is obvious from the path. I have emptied it once so far.
The loop on top goes over a branch and that is the whole job, no tools and no fuss. I would have liked a slightly longer wire for thicker branches, but I found a thinner one and it has been fine since.
Our compost bin is right by the back gate and walking past it in August was unpleasant. I hung one on the frame next to it and the cloud that used to come up at you is a lot thinner than it was. It is not pretty, but it is round the side where nobody looks.
I have it over the squash bed and the low sun comes right through it first thing. You can see how much it has caught without opening anything up. Refilled it once and carried on.
This is the second year I have had one hanging in the little apple tree. It is not magic and the garden is not empty, but late summer in the kitchen is noticeably better than it used to be. For what it costs I will keep putting it out.
These are individual customers’ own experiences, not typical or guaranteed results.
Match it to your space.
One kitchen
A single trap for the one spot that is worst, which indoors is usually the fruit bowl or the bin. The trap on its own arrives empty, so take the version with a lure unless you already have refills at home.
Kitchen and outside
Two traps let you hold two places at the same time instead of carrying one back and forth, one on the counter and one over the compost, or one at each end of an open-plan room. Lures are included.
A house and a garden
Four traps spread across a kitchen, a utility room, the bin store and a fruit tree, so you are not moving one from spot to spot. Lures are included.
Good questions.
Can I use this indoors, in the kitchen?
Yes, and that is the main thing it is for now. Stand it beside the fruit bowl, near the bin or the recycling, or wherever you can already see fruit flies gathering. It needs no hook and nothing fixed to a wall. Two rules indoors, both in the safety section on this page: keep it off any surface you prepare food on, and keep it out of reach of children.
Is it safe to have in a kitchen?
It is safe to have in a kitchen if you place it properly, and this page tells you how rather than leaving you to guess. The lure and the liquid in the chamber are not food and must not be swallowed. Keep both out of reach of children. If either gets into an eye, rinse the eye with clean water and seek medical attention. Do not stand the trap directly over a food-preparation surface. All of that is set out in full in the safety section above, at the same size as the specs, because we would rather you read it than scroll past it.
Is this a trap or is it like the rest of the range?
It is a trap, and it is the only one on this site. A scent lure draws insects into the chamber and the trap holds what it catches. Every other PestRay product works the other way round, by making a place feel unsafe so the animal moves on, and nothing is caught or held. We keep the two apart across this whole site so you always know which one you are putting in your kitchen or your garden.
Can it be used outdoors as well?
Yes. The same trap hangs from the tab on top in a fruit tree, in the garden, on a balcony or a patio, by the bins, or in a greenhouse or vegetable patch. Outdoors there is one extra rule that does not apply on a kitchen counter, and it is the next question.
Can it attract bees?
Outdoors, yes, it can. A scent lure does not distinguish between insects, so in a garden it can attract bees as well as the insects you are aiming at. Hang the trap well away from flowering plants, and take it down while your garden is in bloom. If you keep bees, or your neighbours do, think carefully about whether you want a scent lure hanging in that garden at all. This matters far less for a trap standing on a kitchen counter, but it is still true outside, so it stays printed plainly here rather than being dropped now that the page leads on indoor use.
How do I set it up?
Four steps. Open the trap, add the lure, add water, then stand it where you need it or hang it by the tab. There is nothing to assemble and no tool is needed for any part of it.
Does it need power?
No. There is no electricity and there are no batteries. There is no traditional insecticide spray either. The trap works on the scent lure and the water you put into it, and that is the whole mechanism.
How big is it?
Each trap stands about 20 cm tall and about 9 cm wide, so it takes about as much counter space as a small jar.
Is the trap reusable?
Yes. When the chamber fills up, empty it, rinse it, add fresh lure and water, and set it out again. The trap is the part you keep and the lure is the part you replace.
Do I have to buy lures separately?
Not necessarily. A trap can be bought on its own or together with lures, and every multipack ships with lures included. A trap bought on its own arrives empty, and the lure is what draws insects in, so pair it with refills if you go that way. Refills are sold on their own as FlyLock Lure Refills.
Where should I put it?
Indoors, beside the fruit bowl, near the bin or the recycling, or wherever they are already gathering, but not directly over a food-preparation surface and not within reach of children. Outdoors, on a branch, a frame, a hook, or a shepherd hook using the tab on top, away from flowering plants, and taken down during bloom. Either way, somewhere you can reach without a ladder, because you will be taking it down to empty it.
What do I do when it is full?
Open it, empty the contents out, rinse the chamber, then add a fresh lure and water and set it back out.
How long does a lure last?
We are not going to print a figure. It depends on where the trap sits and on how much traffic it sees, and any number we gave you would be a guess dressed up as a specification. Look at the chamber when you walk past it and refill it when it needs emptying.
How is this different from the rest of the PestRay line?
It is a different category, not a different model. The Rooftop Spinner, the IonAway Yard Guardian, the Perimeter Sentry and the Indoor Plug all work by making a place feel unsafe, and none of them catches or holds anything. FlyLock captures. If a trap is not what you want, buy one of those instead.
The lure is the part that runs out
The trap is reusable, so the only thing you replace is the scent lure. Refills come in packs of 10, 20 or 30, which means you are not buying a second chamber just to get at the lure inside it.
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Something for the yard as well?
The Fruit Fly Kit puts one FlyLock trap with five lures in the same box as an IonAway Yard Guardian, the solar yard stake from the other half of the line. The trap works indoors or out, the stake is for the ground outside. Two different kinds of product, one order.
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