Mosquito traps with their own hands

Summer evening gatherings, picnics on the shore of the reservoir are often overshadowed by invasions. mosquitoes. Anti-mosquito Spraysointment spirals, smoke bombsnot to mention mosquito killersmay not be at hand.In this case, the mosquito trap with his own hands will become a lifesaver. The advantages of such tools are in ease of manufacture, low cost of materials. A selection of life hacking, how to get rid of mosquitoes, will also interest ardent opponents of the use of chemicals.

Primitive but very effective bottle traps

Empty beverage containers are often used to trap insects and even small rodents. The interior of the apartment will not decorate a trap for mosquitoes from a plastic bottle, but the number of insects will be reduced by several times.

Yeast Bait

For the manufacture of the catcher, you will need a 1.5-2 l bottle, a glass of water, a pinch of sugar and 1 g of dry, baker's yeast. The process consists of several stages:

1. Cut the mouth of the plastic container with a knife or scissors. You do not need to throw in the cut off part - you still need it.
2. Sugar dissolved in water. For this, it is desirable to heat the fluid. Cool the resulting syrup to 35–40 ° C and pour it into the prepared plastic container. To catch flies and wasps, sugar is replaced by sweet jam.
3. Pour the yeast into the sweet solution. It can be as baking, granular, dry.Fermentation will not begin without yeast.
4. Cut the tip placed in the bottle neck down to form an analogue of the funnel, secure with tape, electrical tape.
5. Wrap the trap in a dark cloth or paper. Put in a place where the activity of mosquitoes is observed, avoiding direct sunlight.

Yeast trap

On a note!

The smell emitted by the yeast liquid in the fermentation process is felt not only by mosquitoes, but also by people. Therefore, this option can be considered as a street trap, and not a design for residential premises.

Catching on sunflower oil

For the construction of the structure, you will need a plastic container, several spoons of vegetable oil, or just an empty bottle of sunflower oil. Trap manufacturing techniques:

• cut the top of the bottle;
• abundantly lubricate the vessel wall with vegetable oil;
• using a sharp object to make holes through which you can stretch the rope;
• hang traps for mosquitoes in places where insects accumulate, preferably under light sources: lamps, lanterns.

The concept of this catcher is not fully understood. Vegetable oil is not able to act as bait for mosquitoes. It is likely that insects attracted by the light accidentally enter the tank, and after contact with vegetable oil they temporarily lose their flight abilities. You can test the effectiveness of the trap only by your own experience.

Sticky traps

Sticky insect traps

• prepare long rectangular blanks, most often they are made of cardboard or thick paper;
• make a hole in each of them for a rope or wire with which the trap will be hung;
• lubricate each tape with adhesive mass, which acts as a bait for mosquitoes, and as a fixing component.

As the adhesive mass for traps use a variety of mixtures. If there is no time for their preparation, it is enough to lubricate the blanks with castor oil, turpentine, honey, rosin and hang them in places where insects bother most.

As flies, midges, midges and other blood-sucking individuals stick, the mosquito trap must be disposed of and replaced.

Recipes for adhesive mixtures for mosquitoes and blackflies:

• 50 ml of any sweet syrup, jam or honey, the same amount of turpentine, 200 g of rosin and 100 g of castorca;
• 100 g of vaseline and rosin, 50 g of honey, 20 g of glycerin;
• 150 g pine resin, 75 ml vegetable oil, 25 g honey or syrup, 5 g wax;
• alcohol, milk, sugar, calcium dichromate, ground black pepper in arbitrary proportions.

On a note!

In an apartment or a house, gauze, soaked in sticky mixtures with insecticides and hung on the vents, will help you to escape mosquito attacks.

Original trap

Homemade mosquito traps

You will need the following items:

• a cardboard bag out of the juice of 2 liters or more, in the absence of packaging, the cardboard box can be made independently;
• small light bulb or flashlight;
• gauze;
• wire;
• a small electric fan with a diameter of 10 cm, you can use the fan from a non-working computer.

Detailed instructions on how to make a mosquito trap:

1. Cut off the top of the tetrapack.
2. Make 2 holes in the side walls in the upper parts and pull a wire or a rope through them. The fastener is ready.
3. Attach the lamp holder to the handle (wire).
4. At the bottom of the package, install the fan so that the air flow is directed downwards from the light source.
5. Attach a gauze bag to the fan casing with a rubber band.
6. Through adapters to connect the light bulb and the fan to the network.
7. Install the structure in the window opening.

The mosquito trap needs to be periodically cleaned from sticking insects.

5 Life hacking, how to deal with mosquitoes and midges with improvised means

Essential oils, wormwood and glowing spruce are able to get rid of mosquitoes

• Drip into pieces of fleece any of mosquito oil: eucalyptus, carnationslavender citronella, tea tree, cedar, anise, camphor. Spread them in places of insect accumulation and penetration. According to reviews, such compositions are not worse than industrial fumigators.
• To cook vanilla spray, tea tree and lavender oils. Treat them to the window frames, the head of the bed, the territory on which mosquitoes are bothering. Similarly, use shampoo vinegar, ammonia.
• An original recipe for scaring bloodsuckers shared a reader from Moscow. It is enough to wash and treat open areas of the body with wormwood extract - protection from bothersome insects is provided. The same effect has a decoction of wheatgrass roots.
• No less creative is the idea of ​​using horse or cow pellets. They are thrown into a fire or set on fire in metal containers. From the specific flavor scatter, scatter all nearby individuals. The escape of people is also not excluded.
• Save from mosquitoes in nature smoldering conifer branches, cones, dry wormwood, tansy, peppermint will help. Body art from the woody zone will avoid mosquito bites all the time until the body is covered with the original painting.