Traps

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Marius A edited this page Aug 7, 2019 · 2 revisions

Overview

Overview on mosquito.org

Mosquito life cycle

Mosquito lay eggs near water. Eggs are ready to hatch from a few days to several months after being laid. Eggs hatch only when submerged in water. Larvae are aquatic and develop into pupae in as little as 5 days.

Since mosquitos depend on water to hatch, how can we exploit this? Can we create a breeding basin that purges itself on an interval shorter than the egg laying to larval stage, every 4 days?

Notes

Mosquitos are not attracted to UV light

Breeding ground trap: Ovillanta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovillanta

How to DIY

Discussion: how can this be improved? eg not requiring a tire.

Breeding ground trap: BG-GAT

Commercial providers

https://us.biogents.com/bg-gat/

How to DIY

https://github.com/mariusa/mosquito-eradication/issues/2

Bait trap: BG-Mosquitaire

Commercial providers

https://eu.biogents.com/bg-mosquitaire/

How to DIY

? (contributions welcome)

Biogents approach is patented and proprietary: artificial human skin scent

Bait trap: Yeast and sugar bait

Yeast and sugar bait trap

TODO: Does it work?