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Look up how to make a carbon dioxide trap for mosquitoes. They are strongly attracted to CO2.
Ah that's right! It is CO2. My mind remembered it as propane for some reason.
Please don't make a propane trap
In the business we just call that a โbombโ (hard B)
which B is hard?
The middle one
It's a clean burning fuel I tell you hwat
The propaganda from King of the Hill has made for sub-prime cookouts for all my life up until a few months ago.
Believing propane was the superior heating element of the cookout, because of Hank Hill, I never tried a charcoal grill. But when I went to other folks cookouts, it tasted so good. A little sweet and smokiness charred into the meat, "How did they do that?!" I contemplated late into many nights.
I switched to Charcoal after a friendly suggestion, and the difference is mind-blowing. If you're cooking with propane, you might as well be cooking on a stove.
To be fair, there was an episode of KotH where Bobby and Peggy discover that charcoal was actually superior to propane when it came to taste. It was a whole big thing and hilarious to watch them try to keep it a secret from Hank lol
My memory was hazy. It's actually a CO2 trap. Propane trap would be no bueno! ๐น
No wonder your momories are hazy, you inhale too much propane.
would be malo*
Muy malo, one might say.
If fire got close to it, it would be muy malo ayayay
To be fair it would probably kill some mosquitoes
Or if you do, make sure to film it.
There are traps which are called mosquito magnets and they hook up to a propane tank to burn a small pilot light which produces CO2 to attract mosquitos and pull them into a bag via a fan.
You want to place them at the edge of your property though not close to your deck because they attract mosquitos in order to kill them.
I have tried these. They are expensive to run as you need to burn through a tank of propane each month. They do catch some mosquitoes, but they make little overall difference.
Still looking for a working solution.
Okay then go with the electric ones. I had the propane trap and while it worked well the constant propane tank refill was a drag and I certainly couldn't afford multiple.
Enter Dynatrap + Mods.
Dynatrap uses an electric light and fan. It works medium but if you put the octenol attractant in the catch basket it really turbocharged it. Want to kill more? Hang a "bug ball" under the trap covered with Tanglefoot spray. Any mosquito that lands on the ball dies there because they are stuck. The ball will be thoroughly disgusting looking quickly but very effective.
I've spent many years combating.
The Bt mosquito dunks help for any standing water ( have gutters?)
Encourage swallows, bats, frogs too.
Good luck!
Thanks! I have a dynatrap, Iโm going to try this mod!
Because there's a unit you can buy that burns propane to make CO2 and pull mosquittos away from you to a different area of the yard.
Watch out! Generating CO2 in enclosed spaces might turn into a health hazard without monitoring it.
CO2 is also "heavy" and tends to sink, so watch out for pets as it could be deadly for them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Dogs
If you get creative you can put maybe a candle floating in the middle of a large bowl of water, then a bit of detergent will break the surface tension to make them fall in. The detergent will also kill them.
This. I knew an engineer once who built a long electrified copper pipe that would leak CO2. He would drink beer on his back porch and watch them die.
I found some simple traps which look promising to me here:
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/diy-mosquito-trap/
The first one is co2 based, using yeast.
I kinda like the idea of the last one, especially for indoors in the summer. It seems very simple and makes a lot of sense to me: secure some window screen mesh to the output side of a box fan. Let the fan run. The mosquitos get sucked in and trapped against the mesh until they dry out and die. Spray them with a mixture of rubbing alcohol and water if you want to speed up their demise.
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