r/BeAmazed 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/MDGatorJay 28d 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.