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Fraudulent product which is underpowered, has a useless light, and lacks adhesion to catch pests!
I am embarrassed to have purchased this device and to have fallen for the false advertising and to not have read the negative reviews before buying. Firstly, the fan power is not enough to catch fruit flies or gnats. How do I know this? After 3 days of not catching anything, by my sink, where there was an infestation of fungus gnats, I plugged the Katchy into a portable battery pack and tried to manually catch the ones hanging out on the walls... unless I pushed the device fan right up to a pest, there wasn't enough air-draw to pull in anything! I am serious, the gnats could resist flying into the device unless I managed to get them within 1/2inch from the fan... that is complete craziness! Why didn't they install a more powerful fan? Forget using low power, much less the normal setting... seriously underpowered! The fan is absolutely useless. Secondly, the purple light... oh my don't even get me started, even as the only light source in the entire house at night and even left on all day, no gnats or fruit flies are attracted to it. It's obviously not the right frequency to attract insects even if the fan was powerful enough to pull in the pests. As if not bad enough, then Thirdly, I realized the "super sticky" circles at the base of the Katchy are not nearly tacky enough to capture anything. Other people have called them out on this, but I didn't realize until they arrived how bad they are. Fourthly, Did you know Katchy's advertising is photoshopped? Ya, the sticky circles they show hundreds of gnats stuck to are doctored photos. I've run the Katchy for nearly a week 24/7 and caught only single moth and two gnats I manually caught... despite a massive gnat infestation. The sticky circles are such a waste of money... and I bought an extra set with the device anticipating needing more! Fifthly, did you know Katchy has been offering people $ to remove their negative reviews of the product?! OMG... how is that ok? Why hasn't Amazon stepped in and killed this product? I am just so disappointed. I thought the people who advertised Katchy on YouTube seemed a little unreliable, most acknowledge there are better solutions. Well I tried everything... here's a ranking of solutions for how I have finally gotten rid of my fungus gnat infestation: 1) I repotted all my house plants after I literally took a garden hose and rinsed off all the plant roots and pots completely. After I washed everything thoroughly, I then watered with "Mosquito Bites tea" that I made per online how-to videos. I also used transparent window sticky traps. After three days, all the adult bugs were captured, and all the larvae appear to be dead and not hatching anymore. That's it... that's all I had to do... meanwhile I kept the freakin Katchy device running in the background and ya, it did nothing, even with a few pieces of fresh lemon and orange put on the sticky circles. Do yourself a huge favor, don't purchase this thing. The creators took a concept which would probably work and went cheap on the manufacture of it in every respect and they are laughing to the bank making a fortune over charging for a device that doesn't work. They need to put a real UV lamp in it, double the fan power, and use much more powerful adhesive before this device has any hope. I sincerely hope this review helps you make the right decision.
July 2022 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase