You know what I hate about this time of the year? Mosquitoes!
They are a damn menace and have a nasty habit of getting out of hand in my neighborhood especially around late summer.
Well, I have a nice surprise for those little blood suckers! I got me one of those mosquito magnets!
What, I hear you say, are mosquito magnets for heaven’s sake (read about them here: https://homesteadingnow.com/pest-control/mosquito-magnets.php)? Since when did those acrimonious little insects become magnetic?
Ha ha. Well, its not quite like that, but the device works on attracting the evil little critters and simply vacuuming them up!
Keep it Simple
It is a marvel of simplicity meets a little technological know how. The device uses a mixture of carbon dioxide, plant chemicals and moisture that attract the female mosquito (that’s the one that bites you, not the male) by simulating the attractants given off by an animal that it would like to bite! when the mosquito gets close enough, the vacuum sucks it into a bag where it dehydrates and dies.
Simple in its complexity, I say!
I got the device because I hate to use chemical sprays that for one I hate the smell of and two I’m convinced are extremely bad for a person’s health. And when you get to my age, you’re glad to have that health and don’t want some damn chemical cocktail messing with it!
Light traps are only so good and while I can keep them out of the house with mosquito nets up at the windows and doors, I can’t sit out on my patio and enjoy the late summer evenings and not attract enough of the nasty little things to cause me some damn itchy bites!
No Nasty Chemicals
So a non-chemical alternative had to be found and I believe this device is the one. It culls the mosquito population in the area by attracting all the females and killing them before they can lay their eggs and make more mosquitoes.
It also attracts them off my patio so they leave me alone and go for what they believe is more interesting several feet away!
So far so good and no bites in the last few evenings. So I’m confident that mosquito magnets are the clean way to go to beat these nasty blood sucking, disease spreading, flying insects.
Edwyn Prose 