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Update: It's not mosquitos. It's Bedbugs/fleas

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Plastic-Bottle-Mosquito-Trap

I have a mosquito in my house. it's eating me alive.
it's been 2weeks and I still have no idea where it is. I cant find it.

think this mosquito trap will work?


edit:
ok, saw either a bedbug or flea in my bedroom. it was red.
killed it and blood splattered (my blood? 😡 )

I've been living in my house for 10+ yrs and this is the 1st time I've seen a bedbug/flea.

Got a bedbug fogger. cross my fingers that this solves my problem.

oh.. apparently there are 'flea/tick' foggers, and 'flea/tick/BEDBUG' foggers.
wtf?

almost bought the wrong one. glad the package said 'Does not control bedbugs' in Bold.
actually surprised it said that because it lists the bugs it does control.
and even more surprised it was bolded.
 
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Unlikely "a" mosquito, they normally don't live 2 weeks.

As far as the trap go, yet it work for flies and you will catch lots of it.

if you don't want to mix the yeast, beer or coke will work for flies as well.
 
walk around at night and look at the walls. whenever i get one in the house they tend to rest on the wall where you can smack them.
 
I tested this extensively last summer. I tested several different lures, yeast, beer, coke, and sugar water. I placed one in an area near stagnant water that is a breeding ground for them and another near my back porch. I checked it daily for several weeks, then every week, just to see if it needed more time undistrubed to work. I did this all summer, about three months. It does a decent job of catching flies and wasps but did not catch almost any mosquitoes, so few in fact that I suspect it was just random ones flying in. As for the lures, the sugar water worked best for wasps, the yeast caught a bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of beetles, and beer didn't catch much at all.
 
SMOGZINN said:
I tested this extensively last summer. I tested several different lures, yeast, beer, coke, and sugar water. I placed one in an area near stagnant water that is a breeding ground for them and another near my back porch. I checked it daily for several weeks, then every week, just to see if it needed more time undistrubed to work. I did this all summer, about three months. It does a decent job of catching flies and wasps but did not catch almost any mosquitoes, so few in fact that I suspect it was just random ones flying in. As for the lures, the sugar water worked best for wasps, the yeast caught a bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of beetles, and beer didn't catch much at all.
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I wonder if it would work better if you used animal blood as bait, or went for a good run and squeezed your sweat in the trap.
 
Light might work too.

Mercury arc rectifier driven to 5x it's rated voltage covered in mesh wire with high voltage applied and some grounding mesh around it with separators to keep it from touching. If the high voltage does not kill them, the xrays will. Call it the glass squid of death.

C4 works too but I like to keep that for spiders.
 
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Place a UV light in front as an added attractant and you'll catch more than just mosquitoes.
 
JEDI said:
😱
🙁

so how do I get rid of them?
goto walmart and get 20 (fixed) bug bomb foggers?
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That's a good start. There are a couple of other steps:
Throw out all your furniture. Tear out all your carpets. Wash all your clothes at a laundromat, and bag them in sealed bags.

And, often, one last step, burn what remains to the ground.
 
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Childs said:
I wonder if it would work better if you used animal blood as bait, or went for a good run and squeezed your sweat in the trap.
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if you really want to catch mosquitoes you need to attract them with carbon dioxide.

the OP's trap might work if you used dry ice and water but you would have to find some way of heating the resulting humid CO2 so that it would rise in a large plume into the air.

real mosquito traps use propane to make the CO2 and generate the heat. additional chemicals mirror the lactic acid and other scents they use to home in on a target.
 
SMOGZINN said:
I tested this extensively last summer. I tested several different lures, yeast, beer, coke, and sugar water. I placed one in an area near stagnant water that is a breeding ground for them and another near my back porch. I checked it daily for several weeks, then every week, just to see if it needed more time undistrubed to work. I did this all summer, about three months. It does a decent job of catching flies and wasps but did not catch almost any mosquitoes, so few in fact that I suspect it was just random ones flying in. As for the lures, the sugar water worked best for wasps, the yeast caught a bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of beetles, and beer didn't catch much at all.
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Sorry I got confused, are we talking about mosquitos or deer?
 
I make something similar for fruit flies, only I use apple cider vinegar and plastic wrap with holes poked in it to cover it.
 
JEDI said:
😱
🙁

so how do I get rid of them?
go to walmart and get a bug bomb fogger?
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Probably biting you in your bed -

Put vaseline on all legs - make sure it not touching walls - make sure sheets dont hit floor. Clean all sheets -

Denatured alcohol and water mix and spray on the edges of mattress and where you see them.

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Interesting mosquito trap.It may just work!
I've noticed that mosquitos home in when you breathe out (carbon dioxide)
I may try this 😀
 
I googled and found that trap all over the internet too and many people have said it doesn't work AT ALL, so I believe it won't work. Why would random people lie about its success right?

We had a lot of bites once too and it wasn't a mosquito but fleas. Didn't even have pets. Google away.

If it's really mosquitoes, lure it by going topless with sweat and breathe heavy in good light... then smack away when you see it.
 
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