Welcome to Ultimate Mosquito Traps™     

UPDATE:  We have independent verification from an MD in Mexico 2017 and a Medical Entomologist in Pakistan as of 5/2018   We ar still looking for funding. 

This technology:

• Attracts and then traps infected female mosquitos who are seeking to lay eggs.
• Helps reduce the risk of Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Chikungunya and Zika viruses.
• Is easily built in all areas of the world, including underserved countries.
• Is sustainable -- once people learn how to build it, they can teach others.
• Costs approximately 11 cents (USD) to make oneself.
• Does not require a power source.
• Is non-poisonous and non-toxic plus does not require replacement parts.
• Our testing as well as independent testing 99% effective.
• eco-friendly, use discarded bottles and discarded screen material.

 UPDATE  2/19/2018

Ultimate Mosquito Traps has successfully designed and tested the first line of what we call one-way or dead end™ mosquito traps.  This is a major game changer for this class of traps, Ovitraps.  What is the secret sauce?  One word: "Simplicity"!

Note: the deadliest animal in the world is not man, it is the mosquito.  (Gates Foundation)

These traps allow a mosquito in, but not out 99% of the time, this has never been accomplished with mosquitos till now.  We do this with just water as the attractant.  No electricity, no poisons, no tapes.  

This trap is tested and optimized on the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.  Aedes Aegypti is the main mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, yellow fever, and other diseases!  Testing was done in the LaVentana (La Ventana, El Sargento) Baja California Sur  Mexico area by Engineer Dean DeVolpi. 

This is, in essence, an ovitrap-like device that has been in use for over 50 years by mosquito control districts for mosquito forecasting.  And now for terminating them.

We do not use poison and we do not let the mosquito escape! Remarkably, no power required.   What is the cost?  You can make your own for pennies or we will have low-cost kits and stylized products coming in the near future.    

Help us give these away to the poorest places on the planet, for every one we sell we will be giving away a kit unit in a developing nation.    We have been asked to help in several nations in the world and just do not have the funds right now.    

 These are truly an eco earth-friendly approach. no poisons of any kind. 

We have an updated do-it-yourself method. You can make your own ONE-WAY trap for pennies to stop the Aedes Aegypti mosquito and is in French English and Spanish.   Soon we will have low-cost kits and then actual production.  (well not to soon, we have not found any external funding so this is all self-funded, so no kits or products in the near future,  we are hoping.   We are progressing but snail's pace without funding.  A MD in LaPaz Mexico has independently verified our trap catches mosquitos and that in his samples 100% could not escape during summer of 2017.    A Medical Entomologist in Pakistan has agreed to do more independent testing and came back with 100% results also. My testing showed-confirmed the over 99% can not escape too...   If you know of funding solutions please contact me.   and you can make your own for 11 cents in materials....   Click here to go to do-it-yourself directly.  

We hope to have a commercial product in May 2022 if we can get some funding.    

*** As an important side note people concerned with zika please note if going to an area with active cases, take deet-wipes with you and do not miss a spot on your legs, feet especially before you depart the plane.    And same when departing coat yourself before arriving at the airport including all taxis as the Aedes Aegypti mosquito is a great hitchhiker.    This is the potential perfect storm for transmission of vector borne diseases.    Same with movie theaters (I have been bitten in the movie theaters and we only have the Aedes Aegypti mosquito) and even doctor offices and hospitals.  

  

**(see below ovitrap research with a tire by a Canadian University last year, their design allows the diseased mosquito escape, we do not, and we should have comparable results in numbers reduction and significantly better on disease prevention because she enters and does not escape.   Also note the CDC licenses their ovitrap that has a adhesive and it has to be replaced and is expensive.   Here is the link. 

CDC Mosquito Trap for Control and Surveillance of Mosquitoes Including Carriers of Zika & Other Viruses

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Here are several countries in addition to the below ones using ovi-traps recently October 2018



Rotary and CMC partner to test ‘OviTraps’ for dengue control

Mayor Senanayake said: “I thank Rotary for partnering with the CMC. We will require 30,000-40,000 units to cover the country, which we hope Rotary will provide by making it a global project.” 

Rotary International, which was responsible for eradicating polio from 97% of the world by partnering the Governments of the world, has ventured to make Sri Lanka dengue-free in partnership with the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Public Health Inspections unit. 

The landmark project was officially launched yesterday at Colombo Municipal Council, under the patronage of Mayor of Colombo Rosy Senanayake, and visiting Rotary International President Barry Rassin, in the presence of Rotary District Governor Dushan Soza, Past Rotary International President K Ravindran, and other key officials, including Ministry of Health Anti-Dengue Control Unit Head Hasitha Tissera.

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The Provincial Health Office (PHO) is planning to have about a million ovitraps manufactured as part of the Cebu provincial government's anti-dengue ...

PHO to use Ovitraps in anti-dengue fight

Inquirer.net

What Can We Do

Yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya. And now Zika, which has spread to more than 50 countries and can cause an array of severe birth defects.

a recent article on the AE mossy in the Washington Post 12/24/2016:

As the Aedes aegypti mosquito spreads globally, so does the risk of epidemics

“One of the most efficient killers in the world,” Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told The Washington Post this year in discussing A. aegypti.

Of all the mosquito species that populate the planet, few have proved themselves more resilient or more deadly to humans than the Aedes aegypti. The epidemics fueled by this tiny mosquito stretch across hundreds of years and include millions of victims. 

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Go to the resources page to see why this works.  This is a one-way ovitrap.    The potential they are hoping for from below has arrived in 2017.   Article dated 2014. 

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005817/

Whereas contemporary ovitraps have shown good potential in reducing the number of Ae. aegypti in an area when deployed in sufficiently high numbers [5], they are mainly used for scientific and monitoring purposes and not commonly deployed as a standard Aedes control tool. This opens the opportunity for a trap that can be manufactured on a large scale for the pest control market.

September 28, 2016

Congress Ends Spat, Agrees To Fund $1.1 Billion To Combat Zika

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zika can have other effects!

Zika virus linked to Alzheimer

Recent Canadian University results....

The below link is a promising newly published ovitrap using tires funded by the Canadian government.   They claim how effective it is vs any other trap out there in the world.    Still, they do not capture the egg laying potentially diseased female and they have a risk of being a source of the problem if neglected.   For instance, if you go on a vacation even a week it is a breeding ground. 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-to-build-mosquito-trap-from-old-tire-180958954/

"The team recently finished their one-year project in the Guatemalan town of Sayaxché. The results were very promising: the ovillantas destroyed seven times more mosquitoes than traditional traps, nearly 18,000 larvae per month. There were no new dengue cases in the area, where normally there would be two or three dozen."

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just out June 12 2017

Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies

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Here is a recent CDC-funded test on a lethal ovitrap that uses sticky tape.  Our product concept is much better than theirs which works.   The tapes have to be replaced and there is no guaranty that every mosquito walks to the side.    Their findings hit 91% effective still for a retail $30.00 trap that you should have about 6 of them.     Our traps for the poor will be in the several dollar range when we are not giving them away.   

Impact of Autocidal Gravid Ovitraps on Chikungunya Virus Incidence in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Areas With and Without Traps

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To fight the spread of Zika, city conducts door-to-door canvass    The Brownsville Public Health and Wellness Department is also handing out Zika prevention kits that contain insect repellent, mosquito nets, condoms, and mosquito dunks, which stop mosquitoes from breeding.      8/18/2017

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Colombian Red Cross Installs Ovitraps to Promote Community-Based Surveillance for the Zika Virus

Sept 14, 2017           read here

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Invasive mosquito population up 330 percent in Orange County

Wolbachia-Infected Aedes: An Ill-Fated Experiment in French Polynesia

InfoBarrel  As I stressed in my post Wolbachia-Infected Mosquitoes Might Reduce Dengue, Enhance Zika, and Cause a Million Souls to Become Sterile:.  

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More Issues that should have been obvious for the Wolbachia methodology.    My concern was even hitchhiking they can come back from cars and planes.   They are great hitch-hikes I see them in my car often in the mornings because I leave a crack in the window.   One female hitchhiking can lay several hundred eggs in 30 days.

Published  08 DECEMBER, 2017

http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mozzies-pose-unexpected-challenges-singapores-wolbachia-project

 Mozzies pose unexpected challenges to Singapore’s Wolbachia project

SINGAPORE – A larger trial of Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will be delayed, after a recent field study at three sites threw up unexpected challenges in the form of mosquito movements.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from surrounding areas moved easily into the three sites – Braddell Heights, Tampines West and Nee Soon East – where their laboratory-modified male counterparts had been released. This hampered the latter’s ability to suppress the Aedes aegypti population at the release sites, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Friday (Dec 8).

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 Here is another example where on an island where you have complete control the Wolbachia failed in 2 out of three islands.   

Earlier, a research group from Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Australian scientists bred Aedes aegypti mosquitos laced with Wolbachia and then released them on a trial basis on Tri Nguyen island in Khanh Hoa in 2013 and 2014.

Since 2014, no dengue fever outbreaks have been detected on the island, while Nha Trang and Khanh Hoa have reported big outbreaks of the disease.

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this is a geneticlly modified mosquito that appears to have a issue with develop a resistance to using antibiotics.  

Oxitec hopeful for GM mosquito release this year

That’s a concern for Norris and a group of doctors because of bacteria that may be riding on the backs of the mosquitoes, seeing as how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics after exposure to too much or too little. The surviving bacteria can become even more powerful and resistant to medicine down the road.

Norris told commissioners he visited with officials in the Cayman Islands where Oxitec started releases in summer 2016. He wants data about antibiotic resistance seen in people living in the trial site. He also wants to culture the to-be-released bugs to see what kind of bacteria is on them.

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Here is the first test in Mexico of Wolbachia, in LaPaz, state of Baja California Sur.   

http://www.eliminatedengue.com/progress/index/view/news/982?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=MexicolaunchMar21&utm_workspace=WMP+Global&utm_account=World+Mosquito+Program



Seems we are going to be invaded by mosquitos with a bacteria...    

http://www.eliminatedengue.com/progress/index/view/news/982?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=MexicolaunchMar21&utm_workspace=WMP+Global&utm_account=World+Mosquito+Program

some good news. Seems LaPaz is going to be a test for the Wolbachia infected Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Thus we should not see any dengue zika and so on outbreaks. The good news is this does work. And the bad news is though they are making the claim it is long term it has not shown that to be true. Not any of the tests they have made have proven that, in fact it appears for long term as I predicted it would fail. But it does make a huge dent in the short term. 

Wolbachia

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Here is a link to Jan 2017 research that spells it out.    They, in essence, say that an ovitrap that is low cost is the solution.    That they believe an ovitrap has the potential but needs lower cost...  

Well, we are low cost...   we are the first to achieve this.  Other traps they mention are USD$20.00 on up each and 6 or more per location are needed.   People can make ours for 10 cents or buy one of our future models at half that price.   

The State of the Art of Lethal Oviposition Trap-Based Mass Interventions for Arboviral Control

The  evidence supports the recommendation of mass deployments of oviposition traps to suppress populations of invasive Aedes, although better measures of the effects on disease control are needed. Strategies associated  with  successful  mass-trap  deployments  include:  (1)  high  coverage  (>80%)  of  the residential  areas;  (2)  pre-intervention  and/or  parallel  source  reduction  campaigns;  (3)  direct involvement of  community members for  economic long-term  sustainability; and (4)  use of  new-generation larger traps (Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap, AGO; Gravid Aedes Trap, GAT) to outcompete remaining water-holding containers.  

Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312158747_The_State_of_the_Art_of_Lethal_Oviposition_Trap-Based_Mass_Interventions_for_Arboviral_Control [accessed Aug 2, 2017].

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Independent verification

This dead-end trap-container test was an independently tested by an Emergency Room Doctor MD in LaPaz, BCS Mexico in June 2017.   This shows that there are larvae and the dead mosquitos floating were not able to escape which in essence is a reduction in mosquitos in an area by a factor of X.  

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Africa: Move Over Malaria - Mosquitoes Carrying Zika, Dengue May Thrive in Warmer Africa

But the dangers do not end there. Rising heat poses another threat - one that is far less known and studied but could spark disease epidemics across the continent, scientists say.

By Kieran Guilbert

Dakar — From deadly droughts and destroyed crops to shrinking water sources, communities across sub-Saharan Africa are struggling to withstand the onslaught of global record-breaking temperatures.



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another recent publication about ovitraps Published: 



Laboratory Evaluation of a Novel Lethal Ovitrap for Control of Aedes aegypti

Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) are known to flourish in a variety of natural and residential habitats and are competent vectors of at least 22 different arboviruses, including dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. Their global distribution, anthropophilic nature, and vector competency make them species of interest for control. A novel durable dual-action lethal ovitrap (DDALO) with combined larviciding and adulticiding effects, as well as a slow-release polymer (isobutyl methacrylate), was designed to target Ae. aegypti. The use of the DDALO resulted in high adult mosquito mortality (~95–100%) in no-choice laboratory cage studies targeting gravid females and successfully prevented all deposited eggs from hatching. Aging of the traps caused some loss in activity over time, but they still caused adult mortality (~50%) and continued to prevent successful hatching of eggs for 6 mo. Oviposition preference studies resulted in ~4.5 times as many larvae developing in untreated DDALOs compared with the other containers combined. Small-cage multigenerational studies resulted in significantly lower populations of adult mosquitoes in cages containing treated DDALOs after 4 wk. Successful laboratory studies show that the DDALO appears to be a promising tool that could be used for controlling wild vector populations of Ae. aegypti in combination with other mosquito control practices.