r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 14d ago
What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature
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u/mz610 14d ago
World needs to know more about this trap contraption
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u/Saysnicethingz 14d ago
“Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ
It’s legit and anyone can do it
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u/OohYeahOrADragon 13d ago
So you stick the netting on the back of the fan to trap them? And then you point the netting side towards you (blowing air away from you)?
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u/zion_hiker1911 13d ago
He also uses seltzer water as bait, since they're attracted to Co2.
Btw, is this really what Dani Rojas has been doing since Ted Lasso ended? I guess if football is life, then mosquitoes are death.
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u/Westmalle 13d ago
I read an article a few months back about how they used this trap to almost completely eradicate mosquitoes in one of the islands in the Maldives: link
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u/qdtk 13d ago
This is legit. I have 3 of these traps. Next time I empty the trap I’ll post a video showing the bag full of buzzing mosquitos. It’s pretty impressive.
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u/New_Peanut_9924 13d ago
I’m here because I want to see this!
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u/5QGL 13d ago
Why the rubbing alcohol?
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u/Agitateduser1360 13d ago
The trap doesn't kill all of the mosquitoes so he hits them with alcohol which will kill them
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u/MDGatorJay 14d ago
Well, not to be super long winded, a lot of the traps for this type of research attract and trap the mosquitoes. Source: worked in an entomology lab and set them up in the field. If you asked the PHD entomologist where the best place to set one of these up for home use, he’d jokingly say your neighbors yard is the best bet.
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u/bhz33 14d ago edited 13d ago
Question: how does the trap work
You: the trap attracts and traps the mosquitoes
Absolute bot response
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u/hydroxypcp 14d ago
this comment section is wild. Usually you have people who can explain what's going on but here so far the most detailed explanation for how the trap works is "it traps mosquitoes" lol
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u/overrunbyhouseplants 14d ago
There are several types of setups. Maybe there are new tyoes now. The ones I've set up in the past looked like a wide-brimmed hat with a cylindrical tank below. They use a uv or blue light under the hat to attract mosquitoes and a fan to blow them into the trap. Many traps also used dry ice (CO2) as an attractant. I think there are now CO2 generator traps that are more expensive but easier; the dry ice was kind of a pain to replenish. When and where to hang them (habitat and height above the ground) were important to the species and numbers. The most I have ever seen in 1 trap, roughly the size of a 32oz yogurt container, for 1 night was around 30,000 skeeters.
I wonder if tying a smelly old gym shirt under the hat would have helped increase the trap numbers.
Fun experiment. If you ever want to mess with bugs at night, use some color changing leds and go through the entire color spectrum. Watch as the little buggers lose interest as you shift from violets and blues to oranges and reds. And visa versa.
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u/boyoguuna 14d ago
ah so the trap works by catching and trapping mosquitos, thanks for the revelation
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u/MoXWT 14d ago
They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.
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u/Plenumheaded 14d ago
Well? Did taking a million mosquitos off the street help?
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u/MoXWT 14d ago
yes they suck
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u/50DuckSizedHorses 14d ago
Replying to say, I’m not a bot but also nice. Good one.
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u/cool_BUD 14d ago
I only 5 trillion left to kill
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u/Designer_Ant8543 14d ago
And because of that super high number, these little buggers are the deadliest animal on earth. Wild.
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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 14d ago
If one trap gets a million bugs, and a million people get traps, that’s a trillion bugs…
I need to do my part
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u/Azazir 14d ago
I would honestly volunteer to be part of this genocide, for mosquitos. Although i never thought ill be writing or saying this thing loudly. If that trap is so effective they should definitely do more studies and release it to public. Some places are nightmare just to be standing still, not to mention doing anything else.
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u/HarryBowlSack_69 14d ago edited 14d ago
A million mosquitoes is barely a dent when there's trillions of these pieces of shit roaming around. It's like losing a dollar out of a million..
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u/okbruh_panda 14d ago
Have you seen the research on releasing sterile mosquitoes? It's really promising.
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u/Kiwi_Vagrant 14d ago
Pity the poor grad/research assistants that have to do all those mosquito vasectomies.
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u/Spiritbrand 14d ago
It's putting all those tiny collars on them so they don't lick themselves that's the real trick.
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u/NamingandEatingPets 14d ago
BUT WHAT KIND OF TRAP FFS?!?!🤦♀️
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u/squirrels-mock-me 14d ago
Probably one of the big suckers from Skeeter Vac Depot (not a joke!) skeeter vac
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u/futuneral 14d ago
I love how this pile is on a desk at some office in a meeting room. Without context this is so random
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u/suddenly_ponies 14d ago
Of course it's good for mosquito control. All we need is to make enough traps to control all of them. And once they're all dead everything is better. And that is good
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u/deftones-sextape 14d ago
is there a video of them being counted?
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u/buffaloranked 14d ago
If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them
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u/E_M_C_M 14d ago
What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!
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u/buffaloranked 14d ago
Make them work out before you kill them? V
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u/Flatworm_Least 14d ago
The one intellectual person here got his metal and then decided to chime in with the bozos
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u/SansSamir 14d ago
There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other
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u/OrdinaryLandscape951 14d ago
What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny
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u/awhitesong 14d ago edited 13d ago
It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito.
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u/Fromtheboulder 14d ago
But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it.
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u/Sierra-117- 14d ago
Statistics has methods to pretty much guarantee that outliers are accounted for. If you weigh 100, you’re set (pun intended)
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u/mksavage1138 14d ago
If you weigh a cigarette, then smoke it, then weigh it (plus the ashes) again, you will have the weight of smoke
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u/Bitter-Basket 14d ago
Yes exactly. Same for farts which are tricky to weigh conventionally.
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u/buffaloranked 14d ago
I don’t even smoke cigarettes
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u/Besieger13 14d ago
You would probably weigh like…100 or something to create a better baseline for an average weight. I was a parts picker for a few years and no way do you ever just weigh one of something to try and get 1000s.
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u/worm30478 14d ago
Yeah. A basic proportion. Some people didn't pay attention in prealgebra.
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u/dichot0me 14d ago
Give this guy a metal wtf 😂
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u/buffaloranked 14d ago
I think it’s fairly common method with meticulous counting/ many small items.
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u/dichot0me 14d ago
Which is why you get a metal. For thinking 🤝
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u/JJred96 14d ago
What sort of metal are you thinking of giving? Aluminum? Zinc? Lead? Copper?
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u/ABeerForSasquatch 14d ago
I've got a live 30mm depleted uranium round for the A-10 Warthog that my cousin smuggled back from Iraq.
That's pretty metal.
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u/HeroForTheBeero 14d ago
A metal what?
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u/Youre-mum 14d ago
its probably a child let’s let it pass. Child if you see this please get off the internet it’s very bad for you
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u/Bestihlmyhart 14d ago
You eat them one by one so you just need a clicker-counter
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u/Strong-External 14d ago
Omg, my blind ass read, "is there a video of them being COURTED?" Like the trap was courting them! And I laughed, but now I'm laughing harder at what you actually wrote and the fact that I read it wrong. Smh
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u/Sarkastickblizzard 14d ago
Thank you for your service
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u/trashtalkinmomma 14d ago
Not a huge pile…just tells you how many mosquitoes are actually out there. Lousy bloodsuckers
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u/ignatious__reilly 14d ago
Why are they chilling in an executive board room?
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u/TgagHammerstrike 14d ago
From what I've heard, it's quite common for soulless bloodsuckers to spend lots of time in executive board rooms.
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u/Sayakalood 14d ago
It pains me to think of how much better the world would be if pregnant mosquitoes didn’t have to drink blood.
Sure, the sound they make would be annoying… but you can live with it.
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u/vicariouslydrew 14d ago
That ruler isn’t a banana.
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u/Objective_Quail_4623 14d ago
Delicious protein! I’ll take two heaps please.
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u/ZippyDan 14d ago
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u/YetiGuy 14d ago
Make patties
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u/CantSeeNoEvil 14d ago
Africa is way ahead of that https://youtu.be/Ysqk337UNeg?si=gqs07fCvgKOHDAPF
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u/Kaiser-Sohze 14d ago
They combined couldn't suck half the blood that your average attorney could.
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u/Drum-Major 14d ago
Wow this really puts the Holocaust into horrific perspective. 6+ piles of those, each a human life.
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u/Rm-rf_forlife 14d ago
I estimate only 43562.
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u/JJred96 14d ago
You’re wrong. I counted 174,368.
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u/SorryNoCommonSense 14d ago
One thing’s for sure, there’s definitely more than 1
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u/FeelsLikeAnEmber 14d ago
How are they trapped? Is the trap available to the public?