Outdoor Fly Control for Farms, Cafés & BBQs
Outdoor fly pressure is a different beast. Here's how to control flies on NZ farms, cafés, patios and BBQs with UV-tough reusable traps.
Outdoor flies: a different challenge
Indoors, you're fighting a few flies. Outdoors, you're fighting thousands. NZ farms, lifestyle blocks, cafés with outdoor seating and summer BBQs all face heavy fly pressure — and cheap plastic traps won't survive a season.
Why UV-tough matters
New Zealand has some of the harshest UV on earth. Imported fly traps crack, yellow and fail in a single summer. The GotchaPest Reusable Fly Trap is moulded from UV-stable plastic, designed and made in NZ to survive season after season.
Placement for outdoor fly control
- Farms/lifestyle blocks: 15–20m from the house and animal areas, on the downwind side.
- Cafés/patios: 10m from dining, ideally between the source (bins) and the seating.
- BBQs: set the trap 30 minutes before cooking, on the perimeter.
Never place a fly trap over food or seating — you want to draw flies away.
Bait for big outdoor catches
Fish sauce + sugar water, or a piece of rotting meat, gives huge outdoor catches. See our bait recipe guide.
Track regional pressure
Use the GotchaPest app heat map to see fly hotspots near you — especially useful for commercial growers. Need a hand? Ask Buzzy 🐝.
Not sure which pest you're dealing with?
Snap a photo and — our NZ-made AI pest assistant will identify it from our verified species database and recommend the right trap. Free, honest, and grounded in real Kiwi catch data.
GotchaPest Team
NZ-made pest control, designed in Aotearoa for Kiwi conditions. Our traps are UV-tough, reusable and bee-safe — paired with the world's first AI Trap Buddy and the GotchaPest community pest tracker. Available at Mitre 10, Kings Plant Barn and right here online.
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UV-tough, NZ-made traps paired with the app and Buzzy — the first ever AI Trap Buddy.