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Liz and Kory McGavin show their y trap products.
GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
WHITEFISH — A FEW YEARS ago, during a hunting trip along the eastern Rocky Mountain Front, Kory McGavin spent a few nights at an old lodge near Augusta. It was beautiful, he said, but there was one big problem with it.
“There were thousands of disgust- ing ies everywhere,” he said, recalling the ine ective tape traps hanging from the ceiling. “I just remember thinking, ‘There has to be a better way to catch these bugs.’”
So when he returned home to White- sh, McGavin vowed to build a better ytrap. He was so excited about his new
project that he told his wife Liz when he got home — at 2 a.m.
Four years later, the McGavins are about to bring Fly Stop to market, a non-toxic, reusable ytrap that is made almost entirely in the Flathead Valley.
“I’ve switched from being a big game hunter to a big bug hunter,” Kory said.
The McGavins have been in the real estate business locally for 25 years. Kory said over the years he has seen a lot of homes with y problems, but there was none quite like the lodge he stayed at in 2012, which convinced him to build a better trap. Over the next few years, the McGavins started experimenting with
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