Tree Tanglefoot Tree Banding Gum – 15oz Sticky Coating for Tree Wraps – Long-Lasting, Non-Drying Adhesive Barrier Formula – Weather-Resistant, Made in USA

This stuff WORKS!! I have an olive tree that the leaf-cutter ants have been attacking since 2006, Many different ant colonies have discovered it and sometimes I will have a full on attack 6 times a year. In all past years I have had to go outside at about 11pm to see if any ants are coming up and over my block wall to strip the tree. If I'm not vigilant, thousands of leaves are clipped. I have to spray them with Hot Shot concentrate and follow the ants all the way back to where the nest begins to kill the entire army. Six weeks later the larvae in the nest hatch and attack it again. Then I kill THOSE and the colony is dead. But there are other colonies and sometimes they come from 50 yards away. For me, this has been a nightmare!!! UNTIL I FOUND TREE TANGLEFOOT. Since I put it on my tree 3 months ago --- ZERO ants. Here is how to PROPERLY install it. You need two people. First you wind it around the tree trunk or the smaller limbs above a few times making the wrinkled paper winding about 6 inches wide. Don't wind it just the width of the paper wrap. Make it 3 times wider and SECURE IT WITH PLASTIC TIE straps --- Zip ties I think they are called. One at each edge and one in the middle. I had to put two long zip ties together to go around the limbs. You may even need 3. This is why you need two people. One has to hold the paper wrapping tight while the other places the zip ties in place and pulls them tight. Next--- you do NOT use some dumb tool to spread the sticky stuff. It makes too much of a mess and is hard to control the stick stuff from running. What you DO is go get two latex gloves, put them on and dip your fingers in to pull out maybe a tablespoon of the sticky stuff and gently smear it on evenly all over the surface of the secured paper wrap. Keep it thin but not too thin because this stuff will run. This is the easy part. If you do it with a tool like they show--- it a real pain to control the thickness and gobs of it plop on the ground. I've had several rain storms and it still looks like new because of the plastic tie straps hold so well. You will probably have re-coat it again 3 months later depending on the blowing dust, dirt and debris blowing around, but using the latex gloves, it only takes about 5 minutes. Do NOT re-wrap the tree with new paper. I just wanted to share this with you because of the horror show I faced before finding TREE TANGLEFOOT. Apply it my way and it's easy as pie. Their way---- it another horror show

What's not to love about this stuff? It does exactly what you expect, and then some. I am using it indoors. I had never used it before, or anything like it, so my primary concern was toxicity and off gassing inside a living space. It turns out that there is nothing whatsoever to be concerned of. I'm not saying you should eat it, but besides that it's completely safe for indoor use. My issue is bed bugs. My personal preference is to stay away from toxic chemicals, which leaves natural and non-toxic alternatives. Such as diatomaceous earth and sticky pads. Both of which work great, but do come with inherent limitations. Like the fact that it takes a few minutes to a few hours for the critter to die off once it's been exposed. Unfortunately, if you're dealing with a pregnant critter that leaves them enough time to squirt out their eggs leaving you yet another generation of pests to deal with. Regardless of what you might read on the bottles, there is no such thing as instant bed bug eradication. They are just too small and they can hide virtually anywhere. So there is simply no way to hunt them all down before they bite you. FYI, it's the egg-laying you should be worried about, not the biting. So here's the trick. They hunt by sensing your body heat and your exhaled breath. Which is why they seem to focus on your bed area, because after all it's the one place were you remain relatively still for up to eight hours a day. Then consider the fact that they can cross any room in your house in less than 20 minutes. So instead of trying to avoid them, allow yourself to become their bait. But what they don't know, and can never prepare for, is that you have laid a trap from which there is no escape. It's really the only way that works: instead of going to them, have a plan for when they come to you. Here's what I did. I took a roll of 2" wide double sided carpet tape and used it to cover the baseboards and room corners around the footprint of my queen size bed. I also laid a couple of strips directly under the bed. I was very generous with the placement of the tape, and used up about 70 of the 90 ft roll. The idea is to create a barrier which any bug would have to cross in order to reach their meal. I then used a cheap disposable plastic putty knife, and slathered the tape with the Tanglefoot mixture. The result is a sticky barrier that a small dog would have trouble walking through, much less a pea sized bed bug. I also use bed bug coaster traps filled with diatomaceous earth under the four bed posts. Which make a fantastic kill trap, but are not instant and do not necessarily prevent the bed bugs from traveling further. It does guarantee a kill, but it does not guarantee an instant kill. The trick here is to be very generous with the DE so that the bug is guaranteed full exposure to the powder. The better the exposure, the quicker the kill. Between the sticky barrier and the bed bug coaster traps, about all that is left are bugs that might accidentally fall from the ceiling. So in other words, I feel at this point I am 99% protected. I know the bugs are still here, and I know they are still hunting me, but I also know what waits for them when they finally get hungry enough to head my way.

I really hate having to use this product. It’s obviously gooey and very sticky which makes it a pain to apply. It’s also why it works so well. The nasty carpenter ants have been running a very productive aphid farm on my cherry trees for the last two years. I tried just spraying water to clear the issue but the ants made sure to replace their ‘livestock’ and keep the ladybugs from doing their jobs. Not one to use chemicals, I decided to give tanglefoot a try. I placed rings of duck tape (sticky side facing out!) around my trees and coated them with the stuff using a disposable plastic knife. I also coated any lines tied to the branches anchoring them to the ground—leave no paths available to the bugs. With heat and rain the tanglefoot does run down a bit but though unsightly it does not harm the tree. I plan on removing the tape in June (after 2 months) but will continue to monitor and replace it a few inches higher or lower if needed—gotta let the bark breathe. So far no ants on my trees and the ladybugs are free to devour any aphids they find, though I hardly see any anymore.👍🏼

I am now a fan of Tanglefoot barrier. Last summer we discovered that our trees were infested with gypsy moths--too late to do much beyond pull huge caterpillars and pupae off our trees. This spring we sprayed egg masses with the water, oil, dish soap mixture and managed to kill a lot of the eggs, but since two whole lines of evergreens were also involved, we couldn't get them all. In an attempt to save my maples from the complete defoliation some of them got last year, I both applied duct tape and painted them with Tanglefoot (side note, the paper wrap was worthless, so I ended up just painting on the bark). Once the caterpillars hatched, I could see clearly which is the better barrier. Just by chance I had put the Tanglefoot above the tape on some trees and below it on others due to configurations of the trees. As the pictures show, where the tape is below the tanglefoot, the tape is swarmed with caterpillars (first instar) and you can even see caterpillars all the way up to the Tanglefoot barrier. Where the Tanglefoot is below, no caterpillars have made it past the Tanglefoot and the duct tape is clean of caterpillars. If this is still a problem next year (as it may be since the evergreens are harder to clear of the gypsy moths), I will be relying on the Tanglefoot to protect the maples and not bother with the duct tape! I used a cheap 2" plastic putty knife to apply. Easy and disposable! And a little baby oil with paper towel followed by soap and water wash cleaned my hands just fine. I wish the Tanglefoot was less expensive, but saving my trees from defoliation is worth it.

To those asking YES this stops lantern fly damage when used at the right time and in concert with other measures. Get the large bucket if you have several trees. Use the plastic tree wrap and not the Tanglefoot version. Cheaper and more effective. I wrap the plastic wrap around several times and apply the Tanglefoot with a painter's scrapper or stick. It's messy. Start at the top and use about 12 inches. At the bottom use one of the slippery tape tree wraps. This has to be done in spring to block the nymphs. Use this method on the trees that flower late to keep the nymphs off. Make sure other trees nearby are not providing an alternate path up. If you have rose bushes or berries or early fruiting/flowering trees use the Monterey LG 6274 Fruit Tree & Vegetable Systemic Soil Drench Treatment. That actually works better BUT you kill bees and birds if you use it BEFORE fruiting is done. I have black walnuts that flower and fruit all year. I use this on those. I use the Soil drench on any trees or shrubs that might get the pests past my walnuts OR bread nymphs that become full flies (Those won't get stopped by this) later. Dead Nymphs are everywhere. Especially in my pool unfortunately.

Good product. Not as sticky as other similar product more like grease/vaseline. Much easier to clean up than other product purchased. Doesn't trap bees as much but unfortunately allows ants to travel across. Wish local stores carried this product.

Something had been eating my rhododendron leaves. I assumed it was root weevils, and bought Tanglefoot to stop them. But as I applied the Tanglefoot, I noticed a huge number of mid-sized ants going up and down the rhodos. I wrapped a band of white duct tape around the trunks and spread the sticky stuff on top of it. The next day I saw the tape was covered with ants, and the rhodos hadn't been attacked. Obviously, they were leaf-cutting ants. A couple of weeks later, I hung a hummingbird feeder in a small tree. When the hummingbirds stopped using it, I discovered it was full of similar ants. I wrapped the tape around the tree trunk and slathered on the Tanglefoot. No more live ants--only hummingbirds. The product is great but not that easy to apply since it's so sticky. What I did was put on disposable gloves, put the Tanglefoot container on a disposable aluminum tin, and after applying the tape, used a spatula to apply the Tanglefoot to it. (I chose white tape since it looks like what professionals use.) After the application, I put the sticky spatula in a plastic bag to use next time. It's well worthy it!

It looks like a tub of caramel to dip apples in...but this stuff keeps the pests at bay and away from your fruit trees. I first used it years ago...then the company quit making it...just as I needed it for ants. Two years ago it came back on the market, my trees have not looked better. They wear their ring of Tanglefoot as a warning to crawling pests....I Dare You.....you do need to check periodically as leaves etc. can provide a bridge for insects to get your fruit or add insects to your plants. As a post script.....in 2018 the product I purchased locally was very runny. I’ve never had that issue with Amazon product Update summer 2020....just helped a friend save his citrus trees from being overrun by ants and their symbiotic posse of pests....my super tip especially if small ants are the issue....I take a small thin wooden flat dowel and apply a 1/2 inch wide line right on the bark...knock on wood I’ve never had an issue with this hurting the tree. Ants get under all the banding materials, and applying caulk or whatever to seal the band on the bark? Seems like extra work. I’ve seen band damage from it being applied poorly...and remember yes you have to stay on guard a leaf can bridge the gap or ants can find another way into your tree like electrical wires. The amount of healthy tree growth with Tanglefoot is amazing. Good luck

Good stuff but keep it away from your bees 🐝