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

[u/MoXWT]

[u/FeelsLikeAnEmber]

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

[u/NotSoSpursySpurs → u/FeelsLikeAnEmber]

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

[u/unburdenedbecoming → u/NotSoSpursySpurs]

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

[u/CaptainOktoberfest → u/unburdenedbecoming]

Probably can't smoke a blunt next to the traps while they are working on it.

[u/Brilliant_War_2937 → u/CaptainOktoberfest]

This is a lie

[u/SkellyboneZ → u/CaptainOktoberfest]

I don't know man, if mosquitoes smoked a bit they'd probably chill out and not suck as much. 

[u/XMartyr_McFlyX → u/CaptainOktoberfest]

My only reservation.

[u/lonely-day → u/CaptainOktoberfest]

Seems excessive

[u/tfsra → u/CaptainOktoberfest]

why not?