Pheromone trap for cherry fly

The Mc Phail trap is a pheromone trap, specifically for catching flies such as the cherry fly. It is therefore not an ordinary moth trap as used against e.g. the plum or boxwood moth!

Contents? The package includes the Mc Phailval pheromone trap and 2 pheromone capsules, each active against the cherry fly for 6 weeks

Why? The cherry fly causes small white worms to appear in the cherries. These are visible when you cut open the fruit. Not very tasty at all. Because the cherry fly can affect your entire cherry crop, a preventive approach with Mc Phailval is necessary.

Hang out the cherry fly trap from the end of May, when the cherries start to turn a little color. That is when the cherry fly starts to fly

Hang 1 trap per large cherry tree (ground surface of 1 acre) or for several young cherry trees

How it works.The insects are attracted by the pheromone capsule at the top of the trap and fly into the trap through the opening of the inverted funnel. Once inside the trap, the insects remain attracted by the pheromone scents and by the light that enters through the transparent lid. When exhausted, they fall into the liquid located at the bottom of the inverted funnel and drown in it. As a liquid you can use water in which detergent is dissolved. After 6 weeks you then change the pheromone capsule with a new capsule.