How to Build a Mosquito Trap
If you are bothered by mosquitoes, you might want to consider using mosquito traps to reduce their number. If you’re going to spend a lot of money doing this? If you shop around for the best deal on mosquito traps? In fact, you could build its own mosquito traps with some common household items, as long as you know what you are doing.
What follows will help anyone trying to build a trap mosquitoes.
Materials needed:
* 4 tablespoons brown sugar
* A pinch of yeast
* 2 liter bottles
* Water
* Stove
* Pot
* Black construction paper
* Tape
* Knife
Step 1 – Set
* Cut off the 2 liter bottle with your knife.
* Cut on exactly where the bottle began to curve, or as close as possible. Ideally, when you’re done, you must have 2 pieces of plastic, a cylinder that you can fill with fluid, and a portion of the curve.
* Measure 4 tablespoons sugar and 1 cup of water.
Step 2 – Mixed by Material
* Heat 1 cup water in a pot on the heater.
* When hot, add 4 tablespoons of brown sugar. Mix them together until the sugar dissolves.
* Add cold water to mix until just warm.
* Once you have the water temperature down a bit, add a pinch of yeast to the mixture.
The goal here is to ferment the sugar to the yeast, which creates carbon dioxide, mosquitoes are interested in both sugar and carbon dioxide, the mixture is really going to attract them to trap you.
Step 3 – Build Trap
Now you have all the materials needed to make a mosquito trap is completed, and it is time to put them together.
* Set half the 2 liter bottle upright and pour a mixture of sugar, water, and yeast in
* Download the top of the bottle, turn it upside down so that leads down, and put it into the bottom of the bottle. At this point, no part of the top should be at the top of the bottom.
* Press the bottom down as far as it will go without touching the liquid, just to be sure, you want the top and bottom to close completely, with no openings, but the place closed down.
* Cover the outside of the trap with black cardboard. You may need to cut it down to size with the correct division.
Step 4 – Placing the trap
Your trap is complete. Now you need to do is use it well. Choose a cool outside, preferably with high humidity, and place traps there. A place in the shade is best.
Check the traps every 2 weeks. You will need to clear out and replace a mixture of both to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs in them, and to fill the supply of sugar and carbon dioxide. With a little luck, you will also clear the lot of dead mosquitoes.