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Beth54


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Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP:Items needed:1 cup of water 1/4 cup of brown sugar1 gram of yeast1 2-liter bottleHOW:1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.
Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!

HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP:
Ite...ms needed:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
1 2-liter bottle

HOW:
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)

Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.


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Woops meant to add to the tips thread. I'll ask Cindy to delete this double up.



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Thought it was such a good idea you posted it twice Beth!!!!!!!biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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jules47 wrote:

Thought it was such a good idea you posted it twice Beth!!!!!!!biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin

 biggrin Well I did, just not twice in General. disbeliefhmm



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Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill

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Good idea. I have used a similar contraption to catch flies, but with a different recipe inside.

Commercial mozie traps are very expensive, but use CO2 for bait as well....

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 have been traveling and cycling in South Australia for a few months, mozzies are no problem here. That's my solution



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bill12 wrote:

Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill

 This is were some one is supposed to say but isn't that cruel?.    answer.    only if you get your thumbs between the blocks.

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Beth54 wrote:

 

Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP:Items needed:1 cup of water 1/4 cup of brown sugar1 gram of yeast1 2-liter bottleHOW:1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.
Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!

 A bottle of blood-sucking females  biggrin



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What a beaut cheap method ....If you put a patent out on your idea, you would become one very rich lady ...Here alone on QLD ,I am guessing it would work for those pesky midge's as well.Now for the $1000 question have you got any thing to kill the toads.They are every where up here since we had the floods.



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I use mozzie coils, they disable midges too. However your method would seem to reduce an entire population.


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The two blocks of wood method works on the toads, but the buggas keep jumping around, which makes it a bit harder........still fun, though. Bill

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The most satisfying fun I ever had was disposing of a bunch of cane toads with a shovel! Splat!!!
Its also fun to run over them, as they go "Pop" but its not a safe thing to do if there's traffic around. In PNG at the army base at Goldie river the Officers and Sgt mess had a comp going each dry season to see who could run over the most cane toads... not much traffic around there at night.

Going back to the mosquito topic, of all the bugs that stick to the windscreen, there doesn't seem to be many mosquitoes.

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Sadly I can't take credit for this idea. I pinched it off https://www.facebook.com/FreeCampingAustralia7?fref=ts

The thing I like most about it is that it's non chemical. I'm trying more and more to get away from chemicals, food additives etc.

I haven't actually tried this out to see if it in fact works.

Bill, 2 blocks of wood takes energy, this doesn't. You can just sit back and watch the little suckers go in!

GD, I can't stand that pop when you run over a toad. Don't get me wrong, I hate cane toads, I just can't handle the thought of all that guts oozing out. Same with coc.kroaches or any other little critter...I can't stand on anything that's going to ooze guts. doh

 

 



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At least they die quickly Beth, I've seen people run over them with a lawn mower... effective but cruel.
And the mossies would die happy in that trap too.

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bill12 wrote:

Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill

 Works on ****ies and spiders just as well  Make sure the blocks are marked A and B  to A's won't work as well



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At least they die quickly Beth, I've seen people run over them with a lawn mower... effective but cruel.
And the mossies would die happy in that trap too.

 Yes that's cruel. I don't like toads but I don't like people being cruel to any animal. I knew a bloke who used to practice his golf swing on them, but that wasn't a permanent solution, just moved them from point A to point B.



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I made up this recipe after reading it on another site couple of days ago. As I already had the fly bottles, I made it up in there. Don't think its caught anything yet but the little blighters are still biting me at night.

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No such thing as cruelty to toads or mozzies. As to two blocks of wood, I prefer my swat. I enjoy the competition. Who's quicker, me or them? SPLAT! Me!

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The north Korean method is to threaten the toads and mossies with nuclear war. You have to watch , though, as after the fallout they mutate and come back as politicians..........Bill

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The north Korean method is to threaten the toads and mossies with nuclear war. You have to watch , though, as after the fallout they mutate and come back as politicians..........Bill

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I made up this trap last summer....I still got more mozzies slapping them on my arms & legs than the trap ever caught

Put the yeast into a nice fresh loaf of multigrain bread I reckon.

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Delta18 wrote:

I made up this trap last summer....I still got more mozzies slapping them on my arms & legs than the trap ever caught

Put the yeast into a nice fresh loaf of multigrain bread I reckon.

Cheers Neil

 Oh bugga! doh I probably should have tried it out before sharing.



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Just the thing for trapping homemade mosquitoes.

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It works!! I put mine outside under the staircase to upstairs. Thats where I got bitten badly when doing the garden.

Checked this morning, theres bugs of all sizes in there. Tiny ones that could be midgies up to large mozzies and flies.

Will be making one up at Wuruma for sure.

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jimricho wrote:

Just the thing for trapping homemade mosquitoes.

  Plenty of homemade mossies around here!

Glad to hear that Marj.



-- Edited by Beth54 on Monday 15th of April 2013 08:40:44 PM

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The bottle design can also be used to trap Wasps..but my mother inlaw used Cotties( Red colour ) cordigal, .She just put a hole each side of cut down bottle and made a hanger out of an old wire coat hanger.She had it hanging off her apple tree,and she used to trap 100s in it during wasp season.



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The bottle design can also be used to trap Wasps..but my mother inlaw used Cotties( Red colour ) cordigal, .She just put a hole each side of cut down bottle and made a hanger out of an old wire coat hanger.She had it hanging off her apple tree,and she used to trap 100s in it during wasp season.

 I'll have to pass that one on to my daughters hubby. He's allergic to wasps.



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