Ins and Outs of Mosquito Traps

As West Nile continues to expand in North America, a considerable amount of interest is being generated by the new devices designed to attract, then either trap or kill, mosquitoes. Their goal is to significantly reduce or even collapse local mosquito populations by decreasing the number of egg-laying (and blood-sucking) females.

According to the American Mosquito Control Association, advertising claims for acre-wide control “may be somewhat overstated, in most cases being based upon best-case extrapolations… Nonetheless, these devices will indeed trap and kill measurable numbers of mosquitoes. Whether this will produce a noticeable reduction in the mosquito population in your case will depend upon your tolerance level, absolute mosquito population size, proximity, size and type of breeding habitat producing re-infestation, wind velocity and direction and species of mosquito present”.

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