"Immunity" to mosquitoes.

Anthony Cynor acynor at fullerton.edu
Tue Jan 18 15:30:10 EST 2000


It appears to be rather expensive to operate.

Tony

Doug Yanega wrote:

> Ken Philip wrote:
>
> >In the 1970s, a mosquito specialist spent some time at Sagwon, on the
> >Alaskan North Slope, at the peak of mosquito season. He was doing a test
> >on one of the ultrasonic 'mosquito repellers' (which he found actually
> >was a weak _attractant_, though the results probably weren't significant).
> >In the course of that project, he measured the number of bites he got on
> >the back of his hand in five minutes--and then extrapolated to the follow-
> >ing conclusion: if you were stripped naked and tied to a stake at Sagwon,
> >you would die of loss of blood in 2.5 hours.
>
> Interestingly along these lines, I recently was contacted by someone who
> has apparently *FINALLY* developed an honest-to-goodness mosquito trap that
> ONLY kills mosquitoes, and kills them by the thousands. If the data is to
> be believed (and I have no reason to think it's faked), then every outdoor
> UV bug zapper in the world should be tossed in the trash and replaced with
> one of these CO2-emitting beauties.
> The test results are at http://www.mosquitosolutions.com/test.htm, and
> indicate that a single trap can haul in over 7000 skeeters a night, with an
> incidental bycatch of maybe 40 non-mosquitoes: the exact *opposite* of a UV
> light zapper. So why has it taken so long for someone to develop this?
>
> Peace,
>
> Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
> phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>                 http://insects.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82


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