Mozziebusters and the like

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You all remember that whine just near your ear as you lie in the cabin in a hot night . Quickly turn on the light . Get a glimpse of the little ***** and then it vanishes .you get up, search every wall . bulkhead , item of clothing . No avail so back to bunk but
repeat performance half hour later. and so on all night . catch the little &&&&& in morning but leave a smear of blood on wall .

Sooooo ! surely in this era of electronics , radar ,tracking systems and lasers there is a better way of zapping them with out resorting to chemicals and sprays. Where can I find a chandlers selling a mozzie automatic death ray? or a vacuum cleaner collection system with a disposable plastic bag to dump in the morning
 
I use one of those 12 v mozzie buster machines that just plugs into my system and uses a blue tablet. One is enough for a boat. The two main hatches are left open for ventilation and a mozzie net spread over them, weighted or clipped as suits.

It does help to close up the boat before dusk when the little blighters start to get active (at least the female of the species!)

PWG
 
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trouble with these things is that the two pin ones are easily knocked out of socket during night

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'kin 'ell, you must get big mozzies in Corfu! Do they wear 'Doc Martins'?
 
Maybe this is the sort of thing for the Scottish West Coast....


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Some very serious work being done in Scotland may have commercial results.

Get to the point

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I saw this reported a few years ago. It was promised to be commercially available "very soon". What happened?

The principle relied on the emission of an odour which fooled the mozzies into thinking it was a human prepared for dinner. Once inside the emitter, the mozzies were zapped.

From someone who received 67 bites during one night, I am VERY interested!
 
Your only solutions at the moment are:

1. Move your boat to a less mossie infested area!

2. Spray with Pyrethrin.

Don't feel too bad about pyrethrin being a chemical. It's a plant extract - I think from the geranium family (wikipedia will tell you more). Almost all chemical sprays are synthetic productions very similar (and cheaper than) the real plant extract. Those little electric zappers ooze the stuff out over a period of time, can sprays do it all in one go.
 
Midgie traps are available and are reputed to clear an area about the size of a footy pitch. They use calor gas to produce CO2 which is coco-chanel to rampant midgies... which are collected in a muslin bag. Millions of them.
For some reasons these gadgets work in some areas... and not at all in others.
 
I've got one of these.
Works very well indeed, at the start of the season you get a couple of fist-sized bags full of the wee bastids, then the area stays more or less clear for the rest of the summer.
It has meant we can use our garden in the evenings.
 
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