Mosquito's .. This may help

[Nostrodamus]

That time is coming again and this looks like a excellent idea.

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Here is a DIY Mosquito catcher!!!!
What we need is basically:
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup of brown sugar,
1/4 tsp of yeast (yeast bread, found in any supermarket) and a 2-liter plastic bottle. [...]

How to:
One. Cut the plastic bottle (PET type) in half. Storing the neck portion:
2nd. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3rd. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide.
4th. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle.
5th. Wrap the bottle with something black, minus the top, and put in some corner of your house.

 

[Vallich]

And then what - gas mark 6 for an hour or do you just eat them like that?
:disgust:

 

[Nostrodamus]

And then what - gas mark 6 for an hour or do you just eat them like that?
:disgust:

Better to eat them than have them eat you.
The buggers give my wife lady lumps in all the wrong places so I never know which way she is facing!

 

[Tony Cross]

Does it catch wasps as well? They're WAY more scary than mossies!

 

[Nostrodamus]

Does it catch wasps as well? They're WAY more scary than mossies!

Don't know but this thread has caught a few wimps

 

[Tiddler]

Now that is a really good idea since mossies are attracted by the co2 in your breath. The smoke repellents work too. I make my own using tightly rolled kitchen paper stuffed into the ring pull of a beer can. Placed downwind of where you are sitting (no, not indoors) and the little blighters go and bug some other crew.

 

[Carmel2]

Does it catch wasps as well? They're WAY more scary than mossies!

I did a similar set-up in Meganissi for wasps, using honey, which worked.

 

[NornaBiron]

I did a similar set-up in Meganissi for wasps, using honey, which worked.

You can use a can of fizzy drink (full sugar of course) to the same effect, trouble is that it seems to attract more wasps than you would normally get and then you end up with a plastic bottle full of buzzing angry wasps, bees and hornets to dispose off!

 

[Vallich]

Perhaps the idea would be to reduce how attractive your good lady is to the said mossies e.g. try not to go outside during dusk or dawn and cover up as much flesh as possible. If she's not allergic then get her to slap on some DEET. There again, you should be thankful (to an extent) that you already have an mossie attractant in the family and don't need to make another I read recently that there are some folk muckin' about with the male mossie's genes so they breed sterile baby mossies QED the mossie population should decrease - she/you probably can't wait that long though.

 

[Tony Cross]

Don't know but this thread has caught a few wimps

WIMPS - Wasps Is Mossies Plus Sting.

 

[Carmel2]

You can use a can of fizzy drink (full sugar of course) to the same effect, trouble is that it seems to attract more wasps than you would normally get and then you end up with a plastic bottle full of buzzing angry wasps, bees and hornets to dispose off!

Give them to the local kids on mopeds, in fact save them up for the little gits in Lakki

 

[Grehan]

This seemed like such a great idea and I was all set to give it a go . . . unfortunately, researching on t'internet discloses that although the yeast-plastic bottle device is widely posted and re-posted by all and sundry, the consensus is that it just does not work.
Does it work for you, Nostro?

 

[Salty John]

I don't know why Noah didn't just swat those two mosquitos once and for all.

 

[Davegriff]

You can use a can of fizzy drink (full sugar of course) to the same effect, trouble is that it seems to attract more wasps than you would normally get and then you end up with a plastic bottle full of buzzing angry wasps, bees and hornets to dispose off!

Ah yes, but the trick is to put the drinks can on or near your neigbours boat, so they attract all the insects away from you. (Same idea as throwing slug bait over the fence into your neigbours garden)

 

[sarabande]

Avon Skin So Soft is used by some particularly hard service personnel to keep midges at bay.

http://www.apexspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?p=253717

 

[Salty John]

Years ago we used to make up batches of repellent by mixing Avon Skin So Soft with rubbing alcohol. Then Avon cottoned on and started making their own 'alternative to repellent' based on their Skin So Soft. Now we use Off! or Cutters, both very effective.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Don't know yet.. saw it on the internet and it looked a better idea that trying to hunt the bleeders down all-night when you hear one.
At the moment it hasn't been hot enough for long enough for them to raise their pointed little noses.
Anyway..this year we have found something else to protect us.

 

[macd]

A mosquito's what?