A SIMPLE HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP
We were doing some shopping yesterday at Bed, Bath, and Beyond and I saw one of those contraptions called a mosquito trap, it was selling for $59.99, let's just call it $60.00...
Anyone can make one of those traps at home for next to nothing and will work at least 10X better, maybe too well...
Items needed:
One empty 2 liter plastic soda bottle
1 cup of brown sugar, light or dark, makes no difference
1 tsp. yeast
water
masking tape
Instructions:
Cut the plastic soda bottle in half so you now have two halves, a top half and bottom half...
Place the top half upside down into the bottom half so the opening of the bottle is now upside down and inside the bottom half...
Pour in the water until it's just about an inch from that bottle opening...
Remove the top half and pour the water into a pot to boil, add the cup of brown sugar...
After the sugar water is fully boiling, let the sugar water stand to cool...
Then pour into the bottom half of the soda bottle...
Add one teaspoon of yeast to the water and give about 6 to 10 stirs, that's enough to activate the yeast...
Place the top bottle half back over the bottom half upside down so the bottle's opening is now about one inch from the water mixture...
Use the masking tape to seal the two bottle halves together...
Why does it work???
Mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide... this mixture will produce large volumes of carbon dioxide, far more than we breath, so the mosquitoes will never even notice us, they will go directly to the bottle mixture...
Once they hit the water they will not be able to fly off, and even if they were able to fly off the sugar mixture, they will not be able to find the exit...
If you actually left that bottle and sugar mixture out on a table for a few days you will see thousands of dead mosquitoes in that trap...
GZ |
