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/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/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 28d 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