They are able to pick up a wide range of insects. Cockroaches, crickets, spiders, ladybugs, beetles, and endless others. They even seem to attract slugs.
So how do they do it? Do insects (and slugs) all use the same pheromones?
They’re just wandering around and get stuck.
Back when I still cared about having mice* I put one out in a place I could monitor so I could free the mouse into a garbage can. Note that cooking oil dissolves the glue so keep it away when you’ve caught bugs! Instead of a mouse I caught a big roach my kids brought back from DC. It had managed to free all but its back legs, but when it tried to fly it got its butt and wingtips stuck so it looked like a roach tripod. Its other legs waggled for a few days then it died. I kept it displayed as a warning to the others for years.
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- I’ve stopped caring about warm-blooded vermin as long as they behave themselves by not chewing up my good stuff, not crapping where I will step or sit, and not reproducing. Squirrel Nutcase was the first of my woodland friends, but he ignored my warnings to not go where the dogs were. Mr Biggest Damn Mouse Who Isn’t a Rat is one of the best pets I ever had, keeping my hours and not giving me fleas. I even toss him some food sometimes.
ETA: Most glue traps aren’t scented. Vermin of all clades like to follow walls, so if you put it against a wall you’ll catch something.
Huh. Any hantavirus there in Cloud Cuckoo Land?
I thought they used pheromones to attract insects. That is what mine say. Aside from a wide range of insects I"ve also caught mice and slugs in them too.
It’s possible that the dead insects already stuck attract the next victims – most “vermin” are icky partially because they have no qualms about consuming their own dead.