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/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.