So I have been getting bites in the middle of the night and it gotten so bad and I had to move out of my room. So I bought this despite the negative reviews thinking why not give it a try rather than spending thousands to get a professional treatment and boy it works !! Bought this 11-Nov-2017 and I just left it at the corners beside my bed and I checked today (4-Dec-2017) and found these few buggers ! 1 freshly caught and 2 dried up ! Worth it but be patient !

Update: 10/6/2018
I left it there since my last inspection, and today I decided to give it a check, boy! I’m disgusted yet satisfied with what I found ! All these critters crawling in your bedroom, and I haven’t a bed bugs bitten since !!

Ordering more again !!! Highly recommended, effective and cheap solution !

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I had ordered these and several other products after there was a bedbug outbreak at work and I noticed bites and then found a singular molted shell on my bed. I obviously didn't have any kind of infestation because there were no signs of them on my bed anywhere or in any other furniture and after cleaning and spraying/treating and putting mattress covers on my bed I never got anymore bites or found any trace of them again, but I put these out as a precaution, and while I might not have bed bugs now that it's been taken care of, I do live in a rural area where pests like mice and spiders are very prevalent and I have tried for a long time to find something that would help take care of spiders for me. I only ordered about 8 of them, and every one I have used around the house has caught multiple spiders. I don't know exactly how they get in but based on the fact more seem to be caught when I place them under the windows I'd say some sort of cracks around them allow them to get in. My bed is right next to a window and this trap has been out for around a month and was sitting below my headboard which is both upsetting and comforting because at least these spiders got caught in the trap, but what if others didn't? Eww. Either way, I feel like they help some and give me a small bit of peace of mind.

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Didn't trap a single bed bug. Placed it literally in the bug nesting area, they avoided it completely.

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Absolutely useless for bed bugs! These traps are way too big to provide the kind of hiding space a tiny bed bug is looking for. Get the bed post interceptors instead. After a week the traps haven't caught even 1 bug but I've found 3 with just a flashlight in 2 minutes.

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Since they are"baited" for bed bugs, we used them to alert us to any presence of bed bugs. We caught everything else (lots of spiders) but no bed bugs.... which is a good thing since that means we got rid of them!

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Admittedly, I'm not 100% sure how effective these are. My landlord originally laid these down two years ago as an early detection device after dealing with a nasty infestation in other units adjacent to mine in the building. Once they got loaded with dust and weren't sticky, I kept replacing them so as to continue early detection monitoring on my own. More recently, I had these traps set up by my bed and come to find out, the bugs had returned to the building. Even though we knew there was an active bed bug problem, I never found a bed bug stuck to it although I was being bitten occasionally.

On another note, they are great it seems for catching fruit flies in the summer. I always found those little punks stuck to these bed bug traps when replacing them. But I'm not sold on them being effective for detecting bed bugs... :-/

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this stuff does not work at all

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A roommate (R1) moved in with a bedbug infestation where she didn't notice bites on her. Before I was aware she had brought some into the living room and another roommates (R2) bedroom. Her dog's bed was infested as one source. Roommate(R2) and I did get bites. I researched this problem. I got the ClimbUp bed bug disks for the bed legs. R1 got bed mattress cover. Both roommates examined, washed and dried beddings a number of times. Need to keep bedding isolated from floor and walls. Washed and dried clothes and placed in bags straight from drier. Used a generous amount of diatomaceous earth (best weapon) on mattress, around beds and baseboards or furniture. Also did all the couches in living room. R1 has bagged a lot of clothing and blankets and all the clothes hanging up. We put Nuvan pro strips in each bag. Suppose to kill bugs within days. Bought Steam Shot, but haven't used it yet. Placed Bed bug traps in R1, R2 and Living room. Didn't find any bugs in living room, but no longer do I get bit there. Diatomacious earth did the trick there. R2's trap caught a couple, but she is not getting bit anymore. Again Diatomacious earth, I believe has done the trick. R1 caught quite a few the first night, mostly young ones. Less afterwards. Put another trap in R1 room. Ordering more traps to both monitor and trap newly hatched bugs. I think we may have been successful with bed bug infestation so far. I have used a combination attack of diatomacious earth, nuvan, wash and dry, climbUp bed post isolators and bed bug traps. I think you are being wasteful and lazy to spend money on exterminators and poisons. The diatomaceous earth kills bed bugs that crawl across it. Use it generously. Decontaminate your bed and isolate it from floor and walls! I feel the bed bug traps are an important tool. They say bed bugs can live over 1 year without food (you). If you isolate your bed and are careful not to contaminate it, then you have cut off their food source (you). But by using the bed bug traps you encourage the bed bugs out of hiding into or toward traps and or the diatomaceous earth in an ongoing basis. When the traps eventually remain empty for a month that is a good sign that you have solved problem. I am not sure about the people who said they didn't catch any bed bugs but were still bitten. Maybe they hadn't decontaminated their beds or didn't have as great a contamination as they thought and didn't allow enough time to catch the few bugs they had. Once fed, bedbugs don't need to feed for 7-10 days, so they say. I still think it is a waste to spend thousands to deal with bed bugs when there are relatively cheep methods. Just remember you need a combination attack. Note, As a cautionary procedure, I do plan to get a bedbug oven in future, to aid in "for sure" decontamination especially if a current roommate moves out and another in. Don't want any future problems or send it to another place.