Opinion on Mosquito (bug) Traps

[EddieWalker]

We have two of those electric swatters. They can be a lot of fun when you get something that really pops and smokes!!!

 

[caltrider]

There are quite a number of mosquito repelling plants that are nice to plant near your home. Marigolds, garlic, sage, catmint, lemongrass, rosemary are just a few. We plant them in pots on our deck and around the edges of the deck as well. They do a great job of keeping the mosquitoes away from the house. Plus, they look and smell great, some of them taste pretty great too.

How to Create a Mosquito Repelling Garden

Find out which scented plants to incorporate into your garden for their mosquito-repelling properties.

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[HawkinsHollow]

There are quite a number of mosquito repelling plants that are nice to plant near your home. Marigolds, garlic, sage, catmint, lemongrass, rosemary are just a few. We plant them in pots on our deck and around the edges of the deck as well. They do a great job of keeping the mosquitoes away from the house. Plus, they look and smell great, some of them taste pretty great too.

How to Create a Mosquito Repelling Garden

Find out which scented plants to incorporate into your garden for their mosquito-repelling properties.

www.massaudubon.org

That sounds like a good plan!! A couple mosquito repelling planters by each entry door.

 

[Torvy]

My zapper gets mostly mosquitos. It gets so wet around here this time of year, there's no such thing as getting rid of standing water.

This may or may not be an option.. install a man trap style door. These are businesses have where you go through a small entry and then another door.

Zapper outside, 10-20 ft from the entrance. We use one of those UV traps with a sticky backing for inside.

If I could get my wife to keep the door closed, we'd be bug free inside.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

My zapper gets mostly mosquitos. It gets so wet around here this time of year, there's no such thing as getting rid of standing water.

This may or may not be an option.. install a man trap style door. These are businesses have where you go through a small entry and then another door.

Zapper outside, 10-20 ft from the entrance. We use one of those UV traps with a sticky backing for inside.

If I could get my wife to keep the door closed, we'd be bug free inside.

Yeah, I think I might get a smaller UV light with the glue trap to catch the ones that get inside the porch.

 

[WinterDeere]

X2 thermocell...and these work! View attachment 3421606

There is a whole genre of YouTube dedicated to those fly swatters, and people touching various body parts to them.

 

[Oz_Kioti]

X2 thermocell...and these work! View attachment 3421606

They're great fun to use, and if you have energetic kids around, require absolutely no effort on your part! You can watch them for hours.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I would love to have a screened in porch with double wire screen about 1/2" apart like the tennis racket zappers. Screens on insulators connected to something like a microwave oven transformer. Maybe 2kV. That would be entertainment! Also burglar proof.
Here's a funny true story: (I have lots ):
As a kid in the 1950s my Grandfather raised White Saanen milk goats. The barn center section was a shop and had double doors with a window in each. He got tired of all the flys so he replaced windows with screens connected to a hefty fence charger.
It worked great zapping flies. Then one day Dad & I in front yard working on something when a car pulls up. It was an insurance salesman asking to see Grandad.
"He's in the barn" says Dad. Guy walks over and puts his hands & face up to the screens looking in. "POW!" we heard, then guy runs back to his car. Dad says "Well did you see him?". Guy says "I've seen all I NEED to see!!!" then speeds off down our driveway.