Re: Mosquito Traps-Do they work?

Jul 12, 2003 1 Replies
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(zebrin) wrote in if you're talking about the new fangled mosquito traps, the ones I've heard about use carbon dioxide to mimic the human/mammalian respiratory profile. Hungry mosquitoes, thinking dinner is ready, are drawn towards the trap where they are promptly vaccuumed…

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How do these actually attract mosquitos? Or fire ants?



Zebrin


thank you. made the point better than I did. Ingrid
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snipped-for-privacy@wildmail.com (zebrin) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

if you're talking about the new fangled mosquito traps, the ones I've heard about use carbon dioxide to mimic the human/mammalian respiratory profile. Hungry mosquitoes, thinking dinner is ready, are drawn towards the trap where they are promptly vaccuumed, incinerated or otherwise dispatched.

Don't know about fire ants.

-- Salty

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