CO2 mosquito traps

[Jim Mason]

Since they cost ~$400 each, (not counting the CO2-spiking apparatus) I doubt
they will get popular any time soon.  I also wonder how they can be
effective.  If you have a party in the yard and several people are present,
the trap would just look like one more food source to the skeeters rather
than THE ONLY food source.  I would say you are better off to put up a bat
house, (if you have colonial-roosting bats in the neighborhood).

Jim Mason, Naturalist
jmason at ink.org
(316) 683-5499 x103
Great Plains Nature Center
6232 E. 29th St. N.
Wichita, KS 67220-2200
http://www.gpnc.org


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris J. Durden <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:20 AM
Subject: CO2 mosquito traps


If these traps become widespread there are going to be a lot of hungry
little birds.

At 09:35  18/01/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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