Customer Reviews With Photos

Has a nice bright light, pops the bug when they enter, sometimes slow smokes the bigger bugs. I found most the bugs get stuck in the grill, but if they do drop they can easily pass though the bottom. The electrical cord is super short, but that seems to be the thing for bug zappers like this style. I have a large bug zapper I bought from a big box home improvement store and it has the same length electrical cord. This unit does not have a dusk to dawn light sensor built in so if you want or need that functionality you will have to buy separate sensor that ties into the AC cord.

I didn’t realize it’s been an entire year since I changed the filter in the back! This is a years worth of bugs! Just ordered my replacements. This definitely does the job, as you can see it attracts all kinds of bugs.

Edited May 22, 2025 I am so pleased with this Dynatrap! It really is whisper quiet which makes for a relaxing atmosphere out on the patio! After one day there were more critters in there than expected! (See the photo inside the basket) Of course most are moths, but there are mosquitoes in there too!! I experimented by placing a glue board in the basket, hoping to reduce the chance of live insects flying out after opening it for emptying, but it happened anyway. Live and learn. 🤷 So far, I highly recommend the Dynatrap! It is a quality product. Worth your money! And best of all it looks like a very nice lantern. Form AND function.....The Designer in me is satisfied! 🙂 Note: Take heed on the recommended distance to place it away from gathering areas. In my photos, it was placed about 15 feet from the patio table and we became a snack for critters making their way to the trap. 🤦 So we placed it around, and 12 feet away from, the corner of the same structure in the photos. We live in a century home and we're limited with placement due to the location of the electrical outlet, (Think very long, heavy-duty extension cords 😅) but it was still effective last year. I'm very happy! 🙂

I can confirm that this works wonders! Just take a look at what this has caught in about 3 weeks. We had two traps going and the other was similar. These are great for trapping the gnats/fruit flies, but will not stop them from appearing. They are for control and not prevention. My wife and I love our house plants but had no idea that there a “fungal gnats” that can be brought in with plant soil. Turns out that one of the plants was infested when we bought it, and that was the source. We had to throw that one away to stop the issue for good. (Hopefully they haven’t laid eggs in our other plants…) Moral of the story, these things work for control, but also try and find the source of your problem whether it be a plant, some random fruit that rolled under the cabinet, or your trash to truly stop the issue.

This is the standard light bulb for my dynatrap mosquito trapper for 1/2 acre. After using dynatrap for many years, it is not easy to get bites when cleaning my pool in the backyard. This year, I found the light bulb was broken, so I got this replacement after buying the last one about two years ago. One interesting change is that not much insects are trapped this year when compared to the past years. Not sure if my backyard is void of bugs or the old bulb were not functioning properly. Will update the review at the end of this year.

Love this whole product. Takes care of any flies/fruit flies or any flying bug that makes its way into our home. Has made such a difference during the hotter seasons this is my first light bulb refill on it and i had it for at least a year and i have it on 24/7 so i call that a win!

DISCLAIMER: I've only had it up for 2 days, so I can't speak to the long-term performance. SHORT VERSION: this device is INCREDIBLY effective if baited and set a good bit away from where you'll be hanging out. I have a well-fenced backyard with a lot of trees - there's almost no little breeze and a lot of shade. It's basically a mosquito castle. No matter how diligently I dump standing water and set up other traps (notably, Spartan Mosquito traps which did reduce the population but offered no immediate relief), my yard was FILLED with mosquitos. Tired of the harassment, I got used to literally showering with insect repellant at night. Earlier this week I thought, "maybe it's worth trying one of those expensive traps given how much money I'm burning on repellant/how tedious it is to apply it every single day." I'm glad I did, because this thing is AMAZING. The attached photo was taken after a single night of operation. The pile pictured is almost entirely mosquitos. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you feel about them), several moths have been lost to collateral damage. It also seems to attract June bugs and miscellaneous small gnats/flies. I was very apprehensive about the "titanium dioxide coating emits CO2 attractant" claim offered in the product description. I did some background research, and there are at least a few sources supporting the following assertion "when exposed to air flow (fan), light (especially UV, which this device uses), and moisture (humidity0, Ti02 can accelerate the decomposition of organic matter (trapped bugs), releasing carbon dioxide in the process." I cannot verify how accurate that claim is, because - at the advice of other reviewers - I purchased a bait pack to include in the trap to be safe. There's a wide variety of bait options, I ordered the DynaTrap Attrakta bait (https://www.dynatrapoutlet.com.com/gp/product/B07BNV8H8F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1). It appears to be very popular with mosquitoes based on the results from a single night! Overall, it's pricey, but is easily the most effective option I have ever used to control the mosquito population. I have tried all sorts of traps (Spartan, dunks, passive measures/best practices, etc.) - with lukewarm results. This is the first time I have noticed a major overnight change in mosquito activity around my yard. I especially like the screen trap container / light combo, which allows me to witness these little monsters falling prey to the device. Oh, and most importantly (besides using bait) - hang it AT LEAST 20 FEET AWAY from where you'll be sitting. When I approached the trap at night to check its progress, it was like walking into a mosquito tornado (Sharknado sequel idea!). DO NOT hang it it by your chair and expect to be safe - it will lure every mosquito in the immediate vicinity right to you, and you will have a bad time. From a quick experiment last night, I think this tip may be helpful for prospective buyers as well: let it run for a bit BEFORE you plan to do stuff outside. If you stay outside right after turning it on, your breath/scent will compete with the trap, which leaves you exposed and interferes with the trap's effectiveness as a mosquito beacon. Give them a bit of time to become enchanted with the trap, THEN you can do your business relatively mosquito-free! I strongly recommend this item. A1, best mosquito trap I've ever used. Well worth the money!!!

The delivery team shipped the product like this. DynaTrap needs to chat with Amazom

Highly recommend. It caught so many bugs in a year…

Bulb burnt out 10 days after being installed…so I got roughly 1/10 the expected life out of it. Terrible waste of money. Didn’t even last long enough for the bug trap to need to be emptied once.

Started off great, but burnt out in 3 months.

DISCLAIMER: I've only had it up for 2 days, so I can't speak to the long-term performance. SHORT VERSION: this device is INCREDIBLY effective if baited and set a good bit away from where you'll be hanging out. I have a well-fenced backyard with a lot of trees - there's almost no little breeze and a lot of shade. It's basically a mosquito castle. No matter how diligently I dump standing water and set up other traps (notably, Spartan Mosquito traps which did reduce the population but offered no immediate relief), my yard was FILLED with mosquitos. Tired of the harassment, I got used to literally showering with insect repellant at night. Earlier this week I thought, "maybe it's worth trying one of those expensive traps given how much money I'm burning on repellant/how tedious it is to apply it every single day." I'm glad I did, because this thing is AMAZING. The attached photo was taken after a single night of operation. The pile pictured is almost entirely mosquitos. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you feel about them), several moths have been lost to collateral damage. It also seems to attract June bugs and miscellaneous small gnats/flies. I was very apprehensive about the "titanium dioxide coating emits CO2 attractant" claim offered in the product description. I did some background research, and there are at least a few sources supporting the following assertion "when exposed to air flow (fan), light (especially UV, which this device uses), and moisture (humidity0, Ti02 can accelerate the decomposition of organic matter (trapped bugs), releasing carbon dioxide in the process." I cannot verify how accurate that claim is, because - at the advice of other reviewers - I purchased a bait pack to include in the trap to be safe. There's a wide variety of bait options, I ordered the DynaTrap Attrakta bait (https://www.dynatrapoutlet.com.com/gp/product/B07BNV8H8F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1). It appears to be very popular with mosquitoes based on the results from a single night! Overall, it's pricey, but is easily the most effective option I have ever used to control the mosquito population. I have tried all sorts of traps (Spartan, dunks, passive measures/best practices, etc.) - with lukewarm results. This is the first time I have noticed a major overnight change in mosquito activity around my yard. I especially like the screen trap container / light combo, which allows me to witness these little monsters falling prey to the device. Oh, and most importantly (besides using bait) - hang it AT LEAST 20 FEET AWAY from where you'll be sitting. When I approached the trap at night to check its progress, it was like walking into a mosquito tornado (Sharknado sequel idea!). DO NOT hang it it by your chair and expect to be safe - it will lure every mosquito in the immediate vicinity right to you, and you will have a bad time. From a quick experiment last night, I think this tip may be helpful for prospective buyers as well: let it run for a bit BEFORE you plan to do stuff outside. If you stay outside right after turning it on, your breath/scent will compete with the trap, which leaves you exposed and interferes with the trap's effectiveness as a mosquito beacon. Give them a bit of time to become enchanted with the trap, THEN you can do your business relatively mosquito-free! I strongly recommend this item. A1, best mosquito trap I've ever used. Well worth the money!!!

We have screened doors and windows, but during the summer we still get occasional flys, moths, etc. in the house. This year our area experienced a rash of (Aedes Aegypti) mosquitos and enough started getting inside to be a real annoyance. So I bought a DynaTrap DT150 as a test, then five more to distribute through the house. They did a great job of catching a wide variety of flying creatures. We still had the occasional mosquito that refused to be trapped, so we thought that maybe the traps were not working — but when I emptied them out at the end of the summer I found a satisfyingly large number of mosquitos. I tried a couple of different mosquito attracting packets, and it seems like the Atrakta product did the best. But I can't really be sure that it was all that helpful. Maybe I'll do some experiments next summer. The fan is quiet, though quite noticeable in a quiet room, but is a low frequency so not annoying. The product is thoughtfully designed, with a number of small but convenient details that make it very easy to use. It is also well made, and looks like it will last. Attached is a picture of the summer's catch from 5 traps. Note that our house lets very few flying bugs in, and also that being all clumped together you don't clearly see how many bugs there really are. I'm looking forward to trying them again next summer, and will be very interested to see how they do with pantry and closet moths.

I will first say, go to the dynazap website, they have some great info on cleaning, maintenance, etc. After looking at our zapper this morning I thought "How am I supposed to clean this thing?" I found the excerpt below via DynaZap: --------------- Here are the steps you should take to clean your zapper safely: Unplug the unit from the outlet to power off before cleaning. Remove the 4 screws from the bottom of the unit to release the access door. Gently tap the unit to get insects to drop out of the bottom of the unit. If available, use a leaf blower, vacuum, or similar device to remove insects. After cleaning, replace the access door and secure with the 4 screws. During the height of insect season, you might find yourself cleaning your zapper more frequently. Check on your zapper and the collection of debris or dead bugs weekly to decide whether you need to clean the device out. Always clean your DynaZap® at the end of the season before you store your device. This way, your zapper will be ready to go next season (and you aren’t attracting other pests with the collected insects). --------------- That said, for us, it worked well. We live on 24 wooded acres and the amount of bugs at times we get at night it crazy enormous, especially around our back entry door. When my husband leaves for work at night and turns on the light to see, all these bugs are everywhere and fly into the house. I am hoping this Dynazap will help thin the mosquitoes and buggies. As you can see from my pix, after just one use the bugs are coating the UV bulb and they are left dead all over the deck. Thus, I would say it is effective for us. I will probably move it soon away from the house to lure the bugs away as suggested by Dynazap. I kept it close so I could keep an eye on it at first. My one complaint is the super super short cord. To me, that is kinda ridiculous. Overall, though, it gets the job done.

Its not all that effective for mosquitoes. Moths sure, it's effective. But I fully wasn't expecting to trap a sparrow. This bird suffered. While I'm not a fan of sparrows, I'm wholly against inflicting suffering. This is a huge design flaw.