I’m curious if anybody has used these and has an honest opinion of whether they work to trap and reduce mosquitoes. Last year we bought two. My goal is to significantly reduce mosquitoes near the house.
We bought one and hung it up as directed near the house. It was the 1/2 acre size. I got loads of moths but not much else. I would have returned it to Costco but, using my wife’s logic, we need to buy another one for the other side of the house. So she bought a 1 acre trap and we hung it on the other side of the house. I got some mosquitoes. It becomes kind of a mess of bugs on the bottom of the trap and I wasn’t sure what all was getting trapped.
To be fair, the traps weren’t used as directed, which is to hang them as soon and temperatures are regularly above 45°, typically April in the north. The idea I guess is to kill them as early in the season as possible before they can lay eggs and multiply. The first trap wasn’t up until June and second mid July. Eventually the mosquitoes diminished as the summer went on but that’s normal. Also, one trap came with mosquito lure which definitely helped trap more.
My plan this year is to hang them at the recommended time (when temperatures are regularly over 45°). I also plan to use mosquito lure. So, I was looking for any honest opinion by anybody who has used outdoor Dynatraps. Also, I’m thinking that rather than buy Dynatrap’s mosquito lure, that I haven’t seen in the store and has to be shipped incurring extra cost, I might try citronella or some commonly available product to lure mosquitoes.
On a side note, I found that the indoor type Dynatraps a with a light bulb and sticky paper that you plug into a receptacle worked pretty good. I’d see a fly in the house and usually an hour or two later it would be in the trap.
We bought one and hung it up as directed near the house. It was the 1/2 acre size. I got loads of moths but not much else. I would have returned it to Costco but, using my wife’s logic, we need to buy another one for the other side of the house. So she bought a 1 acre trap and we hung it on the other side of the house. I got some mosquitoes. It becomes kind of a mess of bugs on the bottom of the trap and I wasn’t sure what all was getting trapped.
To be fair, the traps weren’t used as directed, which is to hang them as soon and temperatures are regularly above 45°, typically April in the north. The idea I guess is to kill them as early in the season as possible before they can lay eggs and multiply. The first trap wasn’t up until June and second mid July. Eventually the mosquitoes diminished as the summer went on but that’s normal. Also, one trap came with mosquito lure which definitely helped trap more.
My plan this year is to hang them at the recommended time (when temperatures are regularly over 45°). I also plan to use mosquito lure. So, I was looking for any honest opinion by anybody who has used outdoor Dynatraps. Also, I’m thinking that rather than buy Dynatrap’s mosquito lure, that I haven’t seen in the store and has to be shipped incurring extra cost, I might try citronella or some commonly available product to lure mosquitoes.
On a side note, I found that the indoor type Dynatraps a with a light bulb and sticky paper that you plug into a receptacle worked pretty good. I’d see a fly in the house and usually an hour or two later it would be in the trap.
