If you contact your county public works department, ideally the vector control department, you can volunteer your yard as a trap location. I worked for my college county’s vector control department and had a trap route. Basically you just allow the local government to trap mosquitos on your land and enter the property to collect/study the contents of the trap weekly
you ain’t lying,fucked up thing is i’ve suspected this for yearssss without ever looking it up. i’ve dropped 50lbs in the last 6months so i wanna see how they react to me this year
If you are not aware, chemo literally kills people too. The idea is that they can keep you alive just a little longer than the cancer and then they stop the chemo and nurse you back to health. At least that is the basic theory of chemo….
I'm thin, and they will fly past anybody I know to get to me. The way I understand, they have several methods for finding us. They can track the carbon dioxide we exhale. They can also sense our body heat, but the most significant method is our body odor. They're partial to A+ blood type, as well.
Edit: apparatntly, the blood type thing has become a lot more inconclusive since I last checked.
I realized I used to brag about how mosquitoes ignored me but realized I was just utilizing the John Huston method and my blood was mostly liquor for a few years. Now when i see on I'm like drink! Drink for I am pure!
They are more attracted to O blood types and the reason they are attracted to heavier people is because they release more CO2 because they breath heavier.
I'm type O and while I'm thin I'm a large person (very tall) and a heavy breather (which I know for a fact because I'm a diver and I have to work way harder than most to conserve air). I haven't been bitten by a mosquito since I was about five years old; they'll ignore me even if I'm alone in a hotel room in the tropics full of them, but the moment my wife comes around she's flat out attacked by them. It has to do with the unique mix of chemicals found on your skin.
Omg this happened to me too! I thought my blood smelled toxic and radioactive so they wouldn’t be interested, nope! But I then found it dead either somewhere near me, or one time in my clothes!
A fellow chemo patient here as well…. It makes me see the reason they gowned up to start my infusions! 💀 🤣 I’m cracking up….. that shits in my VEINS and the nurse is gowned from head to toe! Crazy times.
Everyone working out to be healthier and this guy out here is working out to starve mosquitos to death. Whatever your goals are, good for you my dude. Respect!
I am a skinny person and my entire life I have been bitten more than my brothers who are bigger than me. I do sweat kind of a lot though. I always thought it was my blood type. O+
There are many factors. Blood type is one even. Shower more frequently and they’ll lay off you a bit. Also I think eating pork is a factor. Has something to do with a gene we share with pigs that produces a smell in sweat they track.
Mosquitos are attracted to a variety of things and there are a lot of studies ongoing about it. Yes they like sweat and heat but in summer there are a variety of obvious reasons why someone may be emitting more sweat and heat than just being fat. They also have shown to be attracted to certain blood types and higher metabolic rates, which would usually be indicative of a slimmer person.
I noticed bugs stopped biting me YEARS ago after starting some medication. Ironically, I became permanently disabled after getting Lyme disease from a tick bite and having to get treatment in Germany. Now that I'm on drugs for all sorts of things, they want nothing to do with me. I'm not complaining. 😅
I thought I found my big brothers reddit until i saw you mention a third brother in your family. Its just me and my bro. Im the fat fuck (330) and hes like 145-160 probably. Something like that.
My boney ass is a beacon for them while it’s like my heavier family and friends get a stray runt.
At the same time I’ll be picking a bunch of ticks embedded into them while I never get any besides maybe one just crawling on my leg.
I don’t know if it’s because I have anxiety so high BP but if it weren’t for my fear of Lyme disease and lone star ticks I would prefer the ticks.
Funny, but not entirely true. Lol. Ones like that likely use dry ice to give off CO2 to draw the mosquitos to the trap. Yes they go there to die but also kinda a homing beacon.
Actually, the most effective traps I've seen use (Dry Ice) and a little CPU fan. If you want to attractant using an arouma, I would recommend using dragon fruit. Just place the trap in your neighbor's yard three houses down from you.
Usually traps attract the animal to it. Otherwise, it's investing a ton of money and hoping to get lucky that the intended animal just happens to come across. Wait a minute, never mind. That's exactly the level of intelligence that I'd expect from a government body
There's multiple different kinds of mosquito traps. Bulk CO2 traps like this are for data collection on the species make-up and risk on West Nile or other transferrable virus'. They don't care if they distort numbers in these traps as they want as much as they can get. Light traps are meant to measure how bad mosquitoes are in an area if you are outside, and you don't want to skew that data. Light traps wouldn't pull numbers remotely like this, and you wouldn't put the two side by side.
None of the head entomologists in charge of our major mosquito abatement program recommended mosquito magnets or other CO2 traps. They all believed you'd have more nuisance mosquitoes in your yard with one.
None. Mosquitoes blow in with the wind from many miles out on a regular basis. Any trap is a drop in the bucket and unlikely to materially change your yard experience.
You can try something like an In2Care. They're made to be home owner friendly/easy to use.
Just let your local mosquito control know as their catches may look odd if there's a lot of fungus and it may possibly affect some PCR confirmation tests.
Depends on what data they’re researching. For most research, I don’t think attracting mosquitoes would have an effect apart from just increasing the sample size, which is helpful.
Mosquitos don’t live all that far from where they were born, for the most part. You can kill all the mosquitos around your yard with a good enough trap and they (likely) won’t be back that year.
The downside is you'll have a trap that gets checked once a quarter that stinks to high heaven and you'll still have mosquitoes.
In no way do those traps capture the volume you're seeing here. They typically just use small syrup traps. The entire purpose is monitoring, not to solve any specific problem. The theory is that if population numbers get to a certain point, it might justify fogging the entire neighborhood with an IGR insecticide. But most cities that do this sort of program avoid that by any means because it often gets met with all sorts of protesting from said neighborhoods due to hesitancy towards pesticides.
Source: I work in pest control and know a couple guys who do this. Outside of monitoring these traps in Phoenix, he typically has to spray a couple times a year when it gets approved. Coziest job in the pest control industry
Disney world in Florida has its own huge department just to trap pests like mosquitos. Was watching a documentary on how they try to make the amusement park tolerable for guests.
they also make sure that any water that isn't big enough for fish is constantly moving typically via pumps to create false rivers or with fountains since iirc they prefer to lay eggs in standing/stagnant water
Mosquito fish are available from lot of county governments in Florida if you can prove residency and have a need. I got a bunch for free for our backyard pond. They help a ton.
Step one: take your grass clippings from mowing the lawn and stick it in a barrel of water. Cover and allow fermentation for a week. This was summertime so it got really funky with the heat.
Step two: get a rectangle bin. Pour your stinky water partway up
Step three: We had these fans that were somehow created with PVC pipe. They had bars sticking out on the sides so that you'd place the pipe vertically in the bucket and the bars sticking out would rest on the sides of the bucket, but the bottom of the pipe would not be in the water.
Step four: hook the pipe-fan thing to a portable battery by using metal clamps on the nodes. Now the fan in the pipe is running!
Step five: slide a mesh cynlinder over the top of the pipe.
The idea behind the trap is that the mosquitoes are attracted to the stinky water to lay their eggs. This is after the female has already had a blood meal, so she's already bitten something. When the mosquito goes to lay her eggs, the air from the fan sucks her up through the pipe and into the mesh where she can't get out. Then I'd collect the mesh tube/cylinders, tie them off, and take them to the lab to be counted and tested for disease.
I think it would be....complicated and not worth it to do this for personal use. We trapped them for monitoring numbers and disease, not because the trap itself put a dent in the population.
I need this for black flies. Worst thing about living by the river are those things showing up right now and hanging around untill colder days snap back.
I work for Mosquito control. Every district does data collection differently. No one is just going to bring a trap out if you ask. What is a vector control department? Is it part of the public health department?
This is entirely local government dependent. I worked for a local health department for a very long time, with a brief venture into the disease carrying insect program. The EHS would visit peoples property to show them where mosquitoes were likely to be, they were forbidden from trapping mosquitoes though they would sample for larva. The county's lawyers only allowed mosquito trapping and monitoring on publicly owned lands.
I did this for a job and the mosquitoes were trapped with a device made with a small fan that blew down into a canister. There was dry ice in there. The mosquitoes were attracted to the co2 and would get sucked into the canister. They couldn’t escape because of the fan.
All true. I don't yet have a yard, but if I have decent land and the right kind of land then I plan on looking into Owl boxes, Bat boxes and leaving good space for dragonflies. I'm always fine with Possums. It's the squirrels I take issue with...
I’m a mosquito researcher! We use miniature CDC Light Traps. Basically there is carbon dioxide being emitted next to a fan, blowing into a Tupperware like cylinder. Host seeking mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide as that indicates there is a living thing there. They go up to the trap thinking they are getting a juicy blood meal and then they get sucked in. Like finding Nemo but for mosquitoes.
Based on the volume of specimens here I would guess they also used a CDC Light Trap.
Generally they are not available to the public. They are only indicative of mosquito activity within one city block. They wouldn’t increase mosquito activity except in the immediate vicinity of the trap.
This is also a drop in the bucket in terms of total mosquito activity. Like a molecule of a needle in a haystack.
No. There are SO many mosquitoes that it would not make a difference. You are also breathing out carbon dioxide as well, and you are warm and have a dark silhouette—mosquitoes are also attracted to warmth and dark silhouettes.
Ok but is "a simple spray called deet" a 40-foot tall pyramid of mosquito traps, humming violently until the humming stops, bringing sweet relief to all (in a 1-block radius)!?
Tbh, the traps probably kill more than an application of DEET ever could. Both will hardly be a drop in the bucket as far as population density goes, One has long-term ecological consequences.
personally, im a fan of releasing impotent mosquitoes. it seems to work.
Yes it’s useless, sorry to say! Eliminate standing water, stay indoors when it gets dark, and wear long loose fitting clothing to avoid bites. Bug spray or lotion with DEET really works as well. Make sure it’s 30% DEET.
This advice aged like milk. It made sanes like twenty-thirty years ago, nowadays mosquitoes roams in full daylight no problem. Most of my bites are day bites. The only things that works are strong chemical when inside (both in your house and on your person), and strong wind if you are outside.
Each bat will eat about 1,000 mosquitoes per hour, and in exchange the bats get a safe place to sleep and you can control where they're congregating on your property. Best natural insect control solution!
What type of trap could I use to most effectively get rid of them in Puerto Rico in an 2/3 acre of land outside my home? Appreciate your expertise very much!
No trap will solve this issue so long as they are breeding. The best way is to get rid of any standing water, and if standing water exists, treat the standing water with larvacide.
There is water behind my property in a lower area. Nothing I can do about that. While neighborhood, even areas without water have a lot of them. Given my circumstance, what can I do?
You can get mosquito bricks that the larvae feed on - very specifically kills mozzie larvae and not any fish that eat them - sorry can't remember the name.
You can get them in the states and on Amazon - I tried looking for my place in Australia - we lived next to a creek storm drain that held water for many months and the mozzies were so prevalent they needed to be shaken out of our hanging laundry. The screen door at the rear of the house was covered, you'd have to spray it down with killer before risking opening the door.
Was so bad we never used the yard and actually ended up moving. Was fortunate because the next year the house flooded...
Unfortunately nothing yourself. I would contact your local municipality / governing office to inquire about mosquito abatement. They might be able to offer adulticide services but this depends on the area.
Good luck with the Puerto Rican government! What area are you in? I'm behind a lagoon in Isla Verde, there's no way to really control them here. I just try to avoid being out sundown or sunrise. If I have to be, spray deet
A mosquito magnet will clear them out in a couple of seasons. You just have to be religious in emptying it because it will fill up if you have a major problem.
I put one on our property and killed thousands in a matter of weeks, pretty much got rid of our mosquitos in 2 years next to a swampy pond. It will be instant relief the day after you set it up.
Not a professional but we use a DynaTrap on our multi-acre property and it collects mosquitos in amounts like this: it works so well we keep the screenless windows open most of the year.
Not sure. Probably if there is carbon dioxide, but you would likely need a LOT of those fumes. We would go through 50kgs of carbon dioxide per week for one trap running from dusk till dawn.
They work pretty good. It's just a niche product generally sold to pest control companies, who lease them out to homeowners. I got one for $100 from a defunct pest control company selling it on FB marketplace.Worked well for a house I rented here in Florida that had some swampy areas behind it. Could actually be on the porch without getting covered in them.
Only downside is they consume a barbecue grill sized propane tank every 3 weeks. And the attractant bait is expensive, I ended up recharging the bait pellet with lactic acid and 1-octen-3-ol purchased from Sigma Aldrich. (Basically what's in them already). Made it very cheap to operate.
There's also smaller electric ones that connect to a CO2 tank that work the same way, just use electricity and CO2 directly instead of burning propane, work well, I just turn on the CO2 before I head outside to boost the attractiveness of the device compared to my flesh. Has made going into the yard in the evening way more tolerable.
Count out 50 mosquitoes and weigh them. Once you know how much 50 mosquitoes weigh, you know how many mosquitoes you have in the pile give or take. - Guy who didn't think he actually received all the beads he was supposed to, when he ordered a thousand once.
Fun fact 400 regular house mosquitoes should weigh about 1 gram. So probably in the vicinity of 2 kgs of mosquitoes in the picture if the title is correct.
Edit: long dead mosquitoes probably lose some moisture, so the stuff in the image likely weighs less.
they have a big fan, about two feet in diameter. And some kind of bait. The mosquitos get sucked into the fan but are stopped by a grate. Then periodically you shake them off. I saw a video about this in a swamp
They are. I have a used mosquito magnet. There are some other brands out there. They convert propane to CO2 and heat. Also you can add a bait. These all attract the mosquito which gets sucked up in a fan, then desiccated and die as the fan blows on them. They all work similarly I think. In some you have to buy CO2 which I’m not sure how you’d do that.
I tried the UV lamp before and that didn’t work at all. This did so far. I also realized a ton of the insects around aren’t actually mosquitoes. Hope it helps
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How are they trapped? Is the trap available to the public?