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Box tree moth trap buying guide

Updated: 22 October 2026

You have webbing in a box hedge, or a pot of Buxus stripped last summer, and amazon.co.uk is offering traps and foil sachets. This box tree moth trap buying guide is the buy, not the hanging steps and not a star ranking. You need a body or a refill, a lure count you can trust when the title and a bullet disagree, and a reason to ignore 180 square metres or half an acre. Prices for the twelve saved listings sit on the [box tree moth trap comparison](/hub/pest-control/box-tree-moth-trap). Products Compared used those listings on 21 October 2026. We did not run a garden trial. A qualifying purchase can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

You have webbing in a box hedge, or a pot of Buxus stripped last summer, and amazon.co.uk is offering traps and foil sachets. This box tree moth trap buying guide is the buy, not the hanging steps and not a star ranking.

Our top picks

Vitax Vitax Buxus moth trap refill

Best overall

Vitax Vitax Buxus moth trap refill
6.9/10about £10.99
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IPM Direct IPM Direct box tree moth trap

Rank 2

IPM Direct IPM Direct box tree moth trap
8.2/10about £18.99
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SWISSINNO SWISSINNO box tree moth trap

Best value

SWISSINNO SWISSINNO box tree moth trap
5.3/10about £15.37
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On this page
  1. 1.Trap kit or refill pack
  2. 2.Lure count and stated weeks
  3. 3.Coverage claims
  4. 4.What to leave on the shelf

Trap kit or refill pack

A kit is a trap you can hang this week. A refill is pheromone for a cage you already own. Kits run from the SWISSINNO body at £15.37 to COMPO at £29.57, with most funnels between about £16.99 and £19.99. The four sachet listings are about £10.99 to £12.99 and include no bucket. The kits are SWISSINNO, BuxTrap, the IPM Direct clear casing, PlantPro’s refillable trap, Agralan, the IPM Direct water bucket, No More Mr Nice Guy, and COMPO. The refill-only rows are Vitax, BuxPhero, BuxAllure, and the IPM Direct envelope. A later table files BuxTrap and the PlantPro trap as lure packs. The titles describe a body you hang, so treat them as kits. One body under £20 suits a pot or a short hedge. A long run or a nursery is a sample. Sachets for a cage you already own are on the box tree moth pheromone refill page. Andermatt and Dragonfli sell kits elsewhere. Their shop prices are not these twelve amazon.co.uk figures.

Lure count and stated weeks

Vitax at £10.99 does not state a life. Do not invent one. COMPO states about two months for each of three dispensers, at £29.57. B09CV6MHKS, the clear-casing kit at £18.99, says three lures in the title and four in a bullet. B09B138FSY, the refill at £12.99, says four in the title and three on another line. Until you open the envelope there is no honest pence-per-lure figure. BuxAllure’s bullets say four and a public specification line has said three. Agralan calls four lures one season, from mid-March to October, without a week count. BuxPhero says up to eight weeks. SWISSINNO at £15.37 states neither count nor life. The foil comes off on the how to use a box tree moth trap page.
Vitax Vitax Buxus moth trap refill

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Vitax Vitax Buxus moth trap refill
6.9/10about £10.99
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Coverage claims

COMPO says up to 180 square metres. Other suppliers outside this set say 200 square metres, one trap per 150, or one per 250. No More Mr Nice Guy, B0CRPQX7PX at £24.98, says one trap per half an acre, about 2,000 square metres. None of those figures is a British Standard. The RHS treats a pheromone trap as a way to see whether moths are active, not as a circle of protection. A catch beside a pot tells you males visited that pot. One trap among sixty box plants, as one IPM reviewer described, is a sample of the flight. Nearly £30 for COMPO does not buy a different insect from a kit under £20, and the half-acre sentence does not beat a £16.99 BuxTrap with four lures and 4.2 from 146 reviews.

What to leave on the shelf

Leave a clothes-moth or pantry-moth lure. These listings are for male box tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis, beside Buxus. Leave a refill when you have no cage: Vitax at £10.99 is two lures and no body. A trap hung over a bare hedge will not put leaves back. Small caterpillars overwinter in webbed leaves, and the RHS describes most feeding from March to October. Defra’s June 2024 factsheet says this pest is not notifiable, so a catch is not a call to the Animal and Plant Health Agency. “RHS” on the Agralan title is the product name, not a test score for the £19.39 kit. Badges on the main comparison are among trap kits only. Names and limits are on the best box tree moth trap page. If the hedge is too large to search by hand, or blight may be in the stems as well as moths, a trap is still only a sample.

Common questions

Do I buy a trap or only the pheromone refills?
Buy a trap if you do not already own a lure cage. The four refill listings, £10.99 to £12.99, are sachets only. A first order of foil leaves you with pheromone and no bucket.
How many lures should be in the box for an April-to-October season?
Four lures at about four to six weeks is the usual one-season pattern if you change them on time. Two is a top-up unless that pack’s sheet claims longer. COMPO states about two months for each of three dispensers. If the title and a bullet disagree, count the sachets first.
Does one trap cover 180 square metres or half an acre?
No. COMPO prints up to 180 square metres. No More Mr Nice Guy prints one trap per half an acre, about 2,000 square metres. Neither is a British Standard. The RHS uses a trap to indicate activity. One bucket is a sample beside plants you can also search.
Is a clothes-moth trap the same product?
No. A clothes-moth or pantry-moth lure is a different insect and a different place. These listings are for male box tree moths around outdoor box. Read the target species before you add it to the basket.
Why do two IPM Direct listings disagree on pack count?
The kit B09CV6MHKS says three lures in the title and four in a bullet. The refill B09B138FSY says four in the title and three on another line. Open the pack and count. Until then, compare the price of the whole parcel.
Is the Agralan “RHS” title an RHS test result?
No. “RHS” is part of the product name. The RHS names Agralan, Dragonfli, and Solabiol as suppliers of traps that indicate activity. A supplier mention is not a score or a coverage radius.

Related pages

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How to use a box tree moth trap in a British garden

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Sources

Public UK sources used for this comparison. Shelf prices, stars and review counts are the amazon.co.uk figures captured for these twelve listings. Last checked 20 October 2026.

  1. RHS, Box tree caterpillar (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  2. RHS, Box tree moth review (2019 PDF) (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  3. Defra, Box tree caterpillar factsheet, June 2024 (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  4. Butterfly Conservation, Box moth policy note, April 2024 (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  5. HSE, Pesticides in the garden and home (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  6. Andermatt UK, How to monitor box tree caterpillar (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  7. Dragonfli, Box tree moth trap lure PDF (retrieved 20 October 2026)