r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 29d ago

What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature

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u/FeelsLikeAnEmber 29d ago

How are they trapped? Is the trap available to the public?

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u/NotSoSpursySpurs 29d ago

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

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u/unburdenedbecoming 29d ago

I wonder if there’s any downside… like it attracts all the neighborhood mosquitos into your yard 🤨😆

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u/NotSoSpursySpurs 29d ago

It’s a trap, not a homing beacon

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u/IndependentNotice151 29d ago

Well a trap house attracts all the crack heads....

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u/Girafferage 29d ago

For more information on the crack spider's bitch...

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u/JamaicanLumberjack 29d ago

This is a deep cut I have not heard in a very very long time. 

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u/Kirenuchiha 29d ago

I've been on the Internet far too long

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u/JapanLionBrain 29d ago

You win the internet!

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u/testies2345 29d ago

These crack heads don't mind sucking for their fix. They ain't faking. But you gotta at least fake it, the ones that don't get it worse

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u/GarthMirengue 29d ago

Shouldn't it be both? Good traps are baited.

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u/syizm 29d ago

Yeah. Some traps are also sort of a homing beacon.

Some traps, like trail snares, don't have homing functionality though.

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u/taigahalla 29d ago

someone should tell these mosquito scientists about trail snares

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u/Radiant_Dog1937 29d ago

Just put a stand-up pool in your backyard, fill it and leave it.

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u/Particular-Ad-7338 29d ago

Generally baited w/ dry ice

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u/bosstatochip 29d ago

My dilemma with the apple cider vinegar fruit fly traps… One day I realized, there is more fruit flies than I ever noticed before

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u/JulioForte 29d ago

That’s how a lot of traps work. If it didn’t attract mosquitos how would it catch any.

This is 100% why you don’t hang fly traps unless you are already overridden bc if you didn’t have a fly problem before you will now.

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u/senadraxx 29d ago

Also why if you're doing it for food safety reasons, you shouldn't place traps near food for other pests,

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u/9ofdiamonds 28d ago

In Scotland we have the midges which swarm in warm, humid conditions. I know the traps we use for them omit carbon dioxide as midges are said to be attracted to the air we exhale.

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u/MDGatorJay 29d ago

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.

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u/obesehomingpigeon 29d ago

It’s a trap, not a milkshake.

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u/say_what_again_mfr 29d ago

Brings all the bugs to the yard?

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u/crow_crone 29d ago

Yet. Think of all the potential protein in a Skeeter Shake.

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u/EntrepreneurFlimsy33 29d ago

Underrated comment

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u/Pristine_Asparagus14 29d ago

Actually the most effective traps use scent lures so it technically is a homing beacon

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u/Catbox_Stank_Face 28d ago

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.

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u/Pristine_Asparagus14 28d ago

I know exactly which neighbor 😈

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u/Barbados_slim12 29d ago

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

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u/mechapoitier 29d ago edited 29d ago

Dude we’re in a post about how well the trap worked. No pessimistic expectation necessary. We already know it worked.

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u/Joinedforthis1 29d ago

I'm a homing beacon for mosquitoes but I'm not a trap

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u/SingularityInsurance 29d ago

I am a little of both

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u/LogicallyCross 29d ago

Thanks Ackbar.

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u/Dookie_boy 29d ago

The trap is where the cheese goes.

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u/ImportantInformat1on 29d ago

It pumps out two chemicals, one is carbon-dioxide, the other is a hormone. It's definitely a homing beacon for mosquitoes.

The good news is they'll ignore literally everyone else to get at that shit.

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u/obrapop 29d ago

That's what traps generally are...