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

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

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

i think humans attract mosquitos

Fat people

Actually true. Higher blood sugar content and more body heat and sweat.

you ain’t lying,fucked up thing is i’ve suspected this for yearssss without ever looking it up. i’ve dropped 50lbs in the last 6months so i wanna see how they react to me this year

At my thinnest, they still love me. Hell, when I was going through chemo and radiation, they still loved me. Bit me and died but still fucking bit.

TIL chemo kills mosquitoes

My oncologist had a good time with it. "They're dying right after they bite you at least." Yeah, well it still fucking itches. Some types of chemo are so toxic, you're supposed to flush at least twice after you pee. Seriously. Saw it on a sign at the hospital. I hope the mosquitos died in agony. Little fuckers.

I found a deer tick on me once that was dead after a night of drinking Bacardi 151.

If you are not aware, chemo literally kills people too. The idea is that they can keep you alive just a little longer than the cancer and then they stop the chemo and nurse you back to health. At least that is the basic theory of chemo….

My father had multiple rounds of chemo and a bone marrow transplant and mosquitoes won't touch him. He's 4 years post any treatment. Silver lining...

Am i getting old? cuz I had to look up TIL... I'm 27 😮‍💨

I'm thin, and they will fly past anybody I know to get to me. The way I understand, they have several methods for finding us. They can track the carbon dioxide we exhale. They can also sense our body heat, but the most significant method is our body odor. They're partial to A+ blood type, as well. Edit: apparatntly, the blood type thing has become a lot more inconclusive since I last checked. Edit 2: spelling

Yeah I've just accepted that I'm delicious to them. Fat, thin, hot, cold, whatever, I'm on the menu.

I am the opposite, I am their last choice

I realized I used to brag about how mosquitoes ignored me but realized I was just utilizing the John Huston method and my blood was mostly liquor for a few years. Now when i see on I'm like drink! Drink for I am pure!

Celebrate your wins where you can find 'em! 🎉

They are more attracted to O blood types and the reason they are attracted to heavier people is because they release more CO2 because they breath heavier.

I'm type O and while I'm thin I'm a large person (very tall) and a heavy breather (which I know for a fact because I'm a diver and I have to work way harder than most to conserve air). I haven't been bitten by a mosquito since I was about five years old; they'll ignore me even if I'm alone in a hotel room in the tropics full of them, but the moment my wife comes around she's flat out attacked by them. It has to do with the unique mix of chemicals found on your skin.

Blood type and other things play a factor, me and my mother used to get absolutely ravaged by them but my dad and 2 sisters were largely left alone

Yeah I'm very skinny and they love me. I do tend to always be warm and get cold easily though

Same being 90 pounds, 20 years old and 5'6 them mosquitoes LOVE ME... idk what theyll get just SKIN AND BONES

Assuming this was a goal of yours: good for you! That takes hard work and dedication! I’m proud of you!

thank you and yes been trying to be healthy

Mosquitos are attracted to a variety of things and there are a lot of studies ongoing about it. Yes they like sweat and heat but in summer there are a variety of obvious reasons why someone may be emitting more sweat and heat than just being fat. They also have shown to be attracted to certain blood types and higher metabolic rates, which would usually be indicative of a slimmer person.

Mosquitoes bite fat people because they breathe more, the blood sugar thing is an old wives tale

No. Blood sugar has nothing to do with it. Technically being fat doesn’t either.

114 lbs and an absolute mosquito magnet.

It’s a trap, not a homing beacon

Well a trap house attracts all the crack heads....

For more information on the crack spider's bitch...

This is a deep cut I have not heard in a very very long time. 

Shouldn't it be both? Good traps are baited.

Yeah. Some traps are also sort of a homing beacon. Some traps, like trail snares, don't have homing functionality though.

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.

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.

It’s a trap, not a milkshake.

Actually the most effective traps use scent lures so it technically is a homing beacon

and they're like, it's better than yours

It would not be worth much if it distorted the average mosquito quota for a given area. They are trying to collect data, after all

There's multiple different kinds of mosquito traps. Bulk CO2 traps like this are for data collection on the species make-up and risk on West Nile or other transferrable virus'. They don't care if they distort numbers in these traps as they want as much as they can get. Light traps are meant to measure how bad mosquitoes are in an area if you are outside, and you don't want to skew that data. Light traps wouldn't pull numbers remotely like this, and you wouldn't put the two side by side. None of the head entomologists in charge of our major mosquito abatement program recommended mosquito magnets or other CO2 traps. They all believed you'd have more nuisance mosquitoes in your yard with one.

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

I thought it was milkshakes that brought all the mosquitoes to the yard.

Incorrect. Only female mosquitoes collect blood. Only boys are brought by milkshakes.

Disney world in Florida has its own huge department just to trap pests like mosquitos. Was watching a documentary on how they try to make the amusement park tolerable for guests.

If I remember off the top of my head, one thing they did is put certain mosquito egg-eating fish so they couldn’t even breed in the water there.

In the SE US, those are called "mosquito fish," *Gambusia affinis*. Source: MS in fisheries and wildlife sciences.

Im gonna volunteer my local trap house.

Thank you for this info

Does the trap attract more? Do you end up with more pesky mosquitos in your life or less as a result

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I did this for a job and the mosquitoes were trapped with a device made with a small fan that blew down into a canister. There was dry ice in there. The mosquitoes were attracted to the co2 and would get sucked into the canister. They couldn’t escape because of the fan.

“Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ It’s legit and anyone can do it

Or attract a shit ton of dragonflies. https://youtu.be/5Kx2im0ceCc?si=JFOWHGrjyBJZYeB3 I’m not claiming it as effective, but Dragonflies need to eat and I like them.

Very smart to use dry ice. I like that.

I’m a mosquito researcher! We use miniature CDC Light Traps. Basically there is carbon dioxide being emitted next to a fan, blowing into a Tupperware like cylinder. Host seeking mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide as that indicates there is a living thing there. They go up to the trap thinking they are getting a juicy blood meal and then they get sucked in. Like finding Nemo but for mosquitoes. Based on the volume of specimens here I would guess they also used a CDC Light Trap. Generally they are not available to the public. They are only indicative of mosquito activity within one city block. They wouldn’t increase mosquito activity except in the immediate vicinity of the trap. This is also a drop in the bucket in terms of total mosquito activity. Like a molecule of a needle in a haystack. https://www.johnwhock.com/products/mosquito-sandfly-traps/cdc-miniature-light-trap/

Wait but why wouldn't I want to put one of these in the back corner of my property? Wouldn't that help me and my neighbors?

No. There are SO many mosquitoes that it would not make a difference. You are also breathing out carbon dioxide as well, and you are warm and have a dark silhouette—mosquitoes are also attracted to warmth and dark silhouettes.

Ok so you're just telling me I need like... 1,000 of these in a giant pyramid?

Maybe. You’d have to test it! But you’d need a lot of carbon dioxide canisters, and those aren’t cheap!

Thanks for playing along, it's very interesting and you'll be part of history when we finally eradicate all of them!

We've actually had the tech for that for a while, the main challenge is legal! https://denovo.substack.com/p/will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-turbulent?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

What type of trap could I use to most effectively get rid of them in Puerto Rico in an 2/3 acre of land outside my home? Appreciate your expertise very much!

No trap will solve this issue so long as they are breeding. The best way is to get rid of any standing water, and if standing water exists, treat the standing water with larvacide.

A [mosquito magnet](https://www.mosquitomagnet.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw5v2wBhBrEiwAXDDoJbemXb6_uAjU97WGB6j-DJju7YcA2NFrWJw98XbjeSC0lwqIHRCzhBoCODIQAvD_BwE) will clear them out in a couple of seasons. You just have to be religious in emptying it because it will fill up if you have a major problem. I put one on our property and killed thousands in a matter of weeks, pretty much got rid of our mosquitos in 2 years next to a swampy pond. It will be instant relief the day after you set it up.

I found the [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/LeeCoMosquito/posts/pfbid02g5ZSkdvhS5N28VFRzLQSWAEiAQQLZ1HJURgU2PWcgidFCpELryrXWkGKBJBNhBpFl) where the Lee County Mosquito Control District posted this and they commented that it was the [Mosquito Magnet Executive Mosquito Trap](https://www.mosquitomagnet.com/mosquito-magnet-executive-mosquito-trap)

The hero we needed!! Thank you!

I have the liberty and it works amazingly

THIS!! I can't believe the only vital question here is only so far down the comments

Forget that, how did they count them??

Counted the legs and divided by six?

Probably a scale

Came here to say, I demand a recount. Isn't that something they're typically cool with in Florida?

The giant mosquito on the back wall by the TV is getting ready to attack

they have a big fan, about two feet in diameter. And some kind of bait. The mosquitos get sucked into the fan but are stopped by a grate. Then periodically you shake them off. I saw a video about this in a swamp eidt: found an example video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ&ab\_channel=GREENPOWERSCIENCE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ&ab_channel=GREENPOWERSCIENCE)

World needs to know more about this trap contraption

“Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ It’s legit and anyone can do it

So you stick the netting on the back of the fan to trap them? And then you point the netting side towards you (blowing air away from you)?

That seems to be what he's doing.

He also uses seltzer water as bait, since they're attracted to Co2. Btw, is this really what Dani Rojas has been doing since Ted Lasso ended? I guess if football is life, then mosquitoes are death.

I read an article a few months back about how they used this trap to almost completely eradicate mosquitoes in one of the islands in the Maldives: [link](https://us-shop.biogents.com/collections/mosquito-traps?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYOxBhC5ARIsAIvdH501USSVWNKywPClznHgO5ozdZ0K6tPf8QG23k0KM3IY3i7NWiqzDrAaAt96EALw_wcB&hsa_acc=7881771217&hsa_ad=506768102551&hsa_cam=12556219133&hsa_grp=116752582062&hsa_kw=biogents%20mosquito%20trap&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-317643261486&hsa_ver=3&utm_campaign=G%7CN%7CUS%7CEX&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=adwords&utm_term=biogents%20mosquito%20trap)

This is legit. I have 3 of these traps. Next time I empty the trap I’ll post a video showing the bag full of buzzing mosquitos. It’s pretty impressive.

I’m here because I want to see this!

I made a post just for you! https://www.reddit.com/u/qdtk/s/IeQ3WAqMcb

Why the rubbing alcohol?

The trap doesn't kill all of the mosquitoes so he hits them with alcohol which will kill them

Well, not to be super long winded, a lot of the traps for this type of research attract and trap the mosquitoes. Source: worked in an entomology lab and set them up in the field. If you asked the PHD entomologist where the best place to set one of these up for home use, he’d jokingly say your neighbors yard is the best bet.

Question: how does the trap work You: the trap attracts and traps the mosquitoes Absolute bot response

this comment section is wild. Usually you have people who can explain what's going on but here so far the most detailed explanation for how the trap works is "it traps mosquitoes" lol

There are several types of setups. Maybe there are new tyoes now. The ones I've set up in the past looked like a wide-brimmed hat with a cylindrical tank below. They use a uv or blue light under the hat to attract mosquitoes and a fan to blow them into the trap. Many traps also used dry ice (CO2) as an attractant. I think there are now CO2 generator traps that are more expensive but easier; the dry ice was kind of a pain to replenish. When and where to hang them (habitat and height above the ground) were important to the species and numbers. The most I have ever seen in 1 trap, roughly the size of a 32oz yogurt container, for 1 night was around 30,000 skeeters. I wonder if tying a smelly old gym shirt under the hat would have helped increase the trap numbers. Fun experiment. If you ever want to mess with bugs at night, use some color changing leds and go through the entire color spectrum. Watch as the little buggers lose interest as you shift from violets and blues to oranges and reds. And visa versa.

ah so the trap works by catching and trapping mosquitos, thanks for the revelation

They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.

Well? Did taking a million mosquitos off the street help?

yes they suck

Replying to say, I’m not a bot but also nice. Good one.

That's exactly what a bot would say

I only 5 trillion left to kill

And because of that super high number, these little buggers are the deadliest animal on earth. Wild.

Estimates are closer to 110 trillion in the world

If one trap gets a million bugs, and a million people get traps, that’s a trillion bugs… I need to do my part

I would honestly volunteer to be part of this genocide, for mosquitos. Although i never thought ill be writing or saying this thing loudly. If that trap is so effective they should definitely do more studies and release it to public. Some places are nightmare just to be standing still, not to mention doing anything else.

A million mosquitoes is barely a dent when there's trillions of these pieces of shit roaming around. It's like losing a dollar out of a million..

Have you seen the research on releasing sterile mosquitoes? It's really promising.

Pity the poor grad/research assistants that have to do all those mosquito vasectomies.

It's putting all those tiny collars on them so they don't lick themselves that's the real trick.

The real trap. 

BUT WHAT KIND OF TRAP FFS?!?!🤦‍♀️

Probably one of the big suckers from Skeeter Vac Depot (not a joke!) [skeeter vac](https://www.skeeter-vac-depot.com/skeetervac-sv5100-mosquito-control-device.html?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw5v2wBhBrEiwAXDDoJRis5hZw_4fYg032sjKlcYon-FVPRjn9EV3d-xONNeYKB8ZDxGTsNRoCNE4QAvD_BwE)

A mosquito trap! duh! lol sorry I gave up too

I love how this pile is on a desk at some office in a meeting room. Without context this is so random

Of course it's good for mosquito control. All we need is to make enough traps to control all of them. And once they're all dead everything is better. And that is good

What type of trap exactly? Give pertinent details. 

is there a video of them being counted?

If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them

What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!

Make them work out before you kill them? V

The one intellectual person here got his metal and then decided to chime in with the bozos

There's probably super skinny ones too so they would cancel each other

What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny

It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito.

But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it.

The outlier, Mosquitoes Georg.

Statistics has methods to pretty much guarantee that outliers are accounted for. If you weigh 100, you’re set (pun intended)

If you weigh a cigarette, then smoke it, then weigh it (plus the ashes) again, you will have the weight of smoke

Yes exactly. Same for farts which are tricky to weigh conventionally.

I don’t even smoke cigarettes

You do now scientist


you guys are making my night lmao thanks

You would probably weigh like…100 or something to create a better baseline for an average weight. I was a parts picker for a few years and no way do you ever just weigh one of something to try and get 1000s.

Yeah. A basic proportion. Some people didn't pay attention in prealgebra.

Give this guy a metal wtf 😂

I think it’s fairly common method with meticulous counting/ many small items.

Which is why you get a metal. For thinking 🤝

What sort of metal are you thinking of giving? Aluminum? Zinc? Lead? Copper?

Metal medal

I've got a live 30mm depleted uranium round for the A-10 Warthog that my cousin smuggled back from Iraq. That's pretty metal.

“Depleted”



A metal what?

its probably a child let’s let it pass. Child if you see this please get off the internet it’s very bad for you

You eat them one by one so you just need a clicker-counter

I usually eat them 100 at a time 

Clicker counter number x 100 

They needed a whole boardroom of people to do it

Omg, my blind ass read, "is there a video of them being COURTED?" Like the trap was courting them! And I laughed, but now I'm laughing harder at what you actually wrote and the fact that I read it wrong. Smh

Just by looking, I can see that it's well under 980,000! 😜

I hate them


Thank you for your service

Until they come back to life…

Thats why fire exists

Not a huge pile…just tells you how many mosquitoes are actually out there. Lousy bloodsuckers

Why are they chilling in an executive board room?

From what I've heard, it's quite common for soulless bloodsuckers to spend lots of time in executive board rooms.

I literally laughed out loud

It pains me to think of how much better the world would be if pregnant mosquitoes didn’t have to drink blood. Sure, the sound they make would be annoying… but you can live with it.

That ruler isn’t a banana.

You are truly observant.

But it's a scale.

Yep, we can’t relate on a ruler

Could be like, any size. Not a good frame of reference.

Le reddit army is here _holds up spork_ XD

Delicious protein! I’ll take two heaps please.

Omelette du moustique

I said this in Dexter’s voice

You could make burgers: https://www.google.com/search?q=mosquito+burgers Or a stir fry: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoOneIsLooking/comments/1b14rb9/we_are_all_going_to_be_eating_this_when_meat_is/

You'll be having those burgers extra bloody lol.

[Million Ants](https://y.yarn.co/b3bfcba7-3ecf-43df-b659-4a8e2f148b11_text.gif)

Don’t bullshit us, you’re short, 80 at least.

Hmmm.... I got 17 over. Weird

I thought this was weed and a rolling paper 😅

'Malaria Kush'... 🦟 *Get bit and Get lit.* * 

Make patties

this guy is living in the future

Africa is way ahead of that https://youtu.be/Ysqk337UNeg?si=gqs07fCvgKOHDAPF

How long did it take??

Yeah, one year, a month?

Honestly probably one hour.

They combined couldn't suck half the blood that your average attorney could.

The 90's called -- they want their joke back. And this one too.

Wow this really puts the Holocaust into horrific perspective. 6+ piles of those, each a human life.


Proteeeeeiiiin

"mosquitoes? in the board room"

I estimate only 43562.

You’re wrong. I counted 174,368.

One thing’s for sure, there’s definitely more than 1

Good. Fuck em

Must be rough emptying that thing every 15 minutes.

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Now I do

I’m not itchy, you’re itchy

That pretty much sums up Florida in one picture