ultimate mosquito trap

Here is a complementary approach a soda bottle with just adhesive on the sides of it.    This is effective with dengue zika mosquito.     Our results will be better because this assumes they will land on the side and requires attention so it does not become a source, but it shows how soda bottles are considered in the industry an ovitrap and effective.   experiment with soda bottles.

I will show some of the traps that caught wild mosquitos in these pictures.  Also pictured are the larvae that hatched that would have gone after us.    Click the case studies link to view them.  To see the methods I used, click the above sub-heading  "Case Studies"   Want to build one yourself? Try DIY.

Our traps do not stop existing mosquitos from biting. We have a more important goal: to stop them before they can spread disease and eliminate them by killing their offspring.    Our traps go after Mosquitos that have already bit a human and are looking for a source of water to lay eggs.   We provide this water for them as the lure/bait.    

Once an AE mosquito bites and ingests enough blood, it takes a few days to lay eggs. It could hide under a bed, in a closet or outside next to a plant while the eggs are matured (about 2-4 days).  This could be from 20 to 200 eggs, depending on how much blood was ingested.    Our goal is to provide an easy or the most accessible path for this mosquito. Providing easy access locations all over the home and outdoors to lay the eggs with our traps, we can stop them from re-emerging before they are even able to pass on these diseases.     Once a mosquito bites an infected person it is reported that it takes 7 or more days before they can transmit the disease.   That is up to two egg laying cycles.     We hope to catch this mosquito in the first egg laying cycle because it is noted in the literature that they like to lay eggs in each cycle in multiple locations if available.  We provide the multiple potential locations.     

Now, why do we know they go to water traps? Well, the US military invented an OVI-trap 17 years ago that they put poison in and use to do mosquito estimate counts with ovitraps before that.    These are used by vector control departments around the world.    Ours is different in that we do not use poisons; we allow the mosquito to enter but she cannot exit.    Mosquitos have been found to become resistant to poisons over time.  The old-school lethal ovitrap hopes that there is enough poison that the female lands on and she later dies. The mosquito can leave the trap because it is an opening and there is no stopping her from biting again and again, or knowing if she died.   (just check lethal ovitrap in wiki, or click here )   I have read that in Australia,and Brazil they used lethal ovitraps in a 10-20-block radius and contained a Dengue outbreak and decreased the AE mosquito density significantly.     But the problems with these traps are that the poisons can be harmful to the environment, mosquitos become resistant to poisons creating super bugs, and they have a life of 4 or so weeks.  If not taken care of or maintained they become a breeding site. Human nature is to forget about some locations.     

From the 50 years of using ovitraps, we know that any black container with a hole that contains non-chlorinated water can be a breeding ground of a mosquito.   This is a given, mosquitos can find water in even bottle caps, candy wrappers, and lay eggs.  So our trap is a bottle with water and a entry-way  and thus we know via our own testing of our traps we caught mosquitos.       

Our magic sauce is that in this breeding ground is sealed off yet allow them to enter, but not let them exit.  A one-way trap or a dead end trap, the first in the world with no electricity and no sticky stuff and no poisons.       It took us several integrations to do this.    These mosquitoes are more resourceful than one would have expected.      We made use of the natural instinct to find the water to lay eggs, and their ingenuity to get there at all costs when they are looking for a higher water vapor to air content.     Once inside the trap, we deceive them with their ability to detect the fresh air with screening that has a higher air to moisture level. They are unable to get out, and where they actually entered is a non-obvious path to crawling or flying.   My testing showed this design to be 98 percent efficient, 4 mosquitos escaped out of roughly 200 or more.   I will show my testing method used for trap design. 

These one-way traps should be placed on all house vents and septic vents too.     With the standalone traps, one should be in each bedroom of the house and one near any existing doors.   They should be placed outside near doors and windows around the home and at the perimeter of the property.    

These will be very low cost to the public, in fact, free from the DIY page on our website.   Our do-it-yourself (DIY) kits will be available for under USD$3.00 each.   We need donations to build these kits, so please click on the donations tab, we even have some items you can buy to help support us.    Also, you still have to remove other sources of breeding grounds. Tires, containers, septic vents need to be covered with one of our traps.  

Below is a stand alone trap that caught mosquitos.   

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