Easy DIY Mosquito Traps
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Spartan Mosquito Eradicators are a highly effective and easy-to-use solution for controlling mosquito populations in outdoor areas. They work by luring in female mosquitoes with a scent that mimics human breath, and then exposing them to a lethal dose of insecticide.
The key to the effectiveness of Spartan Mosquito Eradicators lies in their patented blend of ingredients. The mixture of sucrose, salt, and yeast creates carbon dioxide, heat, and moisture, which closely resembles the scent of human breath. Female mosquitoes are highly attracted to this scent, as they require a blood meal in order to lay eggs. Once they enter the Eradicator, they consume the mixture and are exposed to a highly potent insecticide.
The active ingredient in Spartan Mosquito Eradicators is Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a naturally occurring bacterium that is highly effective at killing mosquitoes. Bti produces toxins that specifically target the digestive systems of mosquitoes and other related insects, while being harmless to humans, pets, and most other non-target organisms. Once inside the mosquito's gut, the Bti toxins cause the gut walls to break down, leading to death by starvation.
Spartan Mosquito Eradicators are designed to be hung outdoors in areas where mosquitoes are prevalent, such as near standing water or shaded areas. They can be hung from trees, poles, or other structures, and are effective for up to 90 days, depending on environmental conditions and the number of mosquitoes in the area. The Eradicators are a long-term solution for controlling mosquito populations and can be used in combination with other mosquito control measures, such as repellents and larvicides, for more comprehensive mosquito control.
The benefits of Spartan Mosquito Eradicators are numerous. They are easy to use, requiring no batteries or electricity, and can be placed in areas where conventional mosquito control methods are not practical. They are also environmentally friendly, as they use a naturally occurring bacterium and are not harmful to non-target organisms. Additionally, Spartan Mosquito Eradicators can help reduce the risk of mosquito-borne diseases, such as West Nile virus, dengue fever, and Zika virus, by controlling mosquito populations in outdoor areas.
In conclusion, Spartan Mosquito Eradicators are an effective and environmentally friendly solution for controlling mosquito populations in outdoor areas. They work by luring in female mosquitoes with a scent that mimics human breath, and then exposing them to a lethal dose of insecticide. With their long-lasting effectiveness and ease of use, Spartan Mosquito Eradicators are an ideal solution for anyone looking to control mosquitoes and reduce the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
IF YOU WISH TO MAKE YOUR OWN....
HERE IS A SIMPLE DIY EXPLAINATION!
Materials:
A 2-liter plastic bottle
Black spray paint
1 cup of sugar (Sucrose)
1 packet of yeast
1 cup of warm water
1 teaspoon of salt
Instructions:
Start by washing the 2-liter plastic bottle and cutting off the top third of the bottle with scissors or a sharp knife.
Spray paint the upper part of the bottle black, as mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors.
In a separate container, mix together 1 cup of sugar, 1 packet of yeast, 1 cup of warm water, and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir the mixture until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved.
Pour the mixture into the bottom part of the bottle.
Take the top part of the bottle and turn it upside down, placing it inside the bottom part of the bottle. Make sure the spout of the top part is pointing downwards and the opening is just above the sugar mixture.
Use tape to seal the two pieces of the bottle together, leaving no gaps between them.
Place the mosquito trap in a dark, humid area, where mosquitoes are likely to gather. The trap will work best in shaded areas such as patios, balconies, or gardens.
Check the trap every few days and replace the sugar mixture as needed. You can also dispose of any dead mosquitoes that have accumulated in the trap.
With this simple DIY mosquito trap, you can effectively reduce the number of mosquitoes in your surroundings. However, it's important to note that no mosquito trap can completely eradicate mosquitoes, so it's best to use other methods such as wearing long-sleeved clothing, using mosquito repellent, and eliminating any sources of stagnant water where mosquitoes can breed.
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Use black or very dark bottles, paint them if you have to. Mosquitoes are attracted to dark things , that goes for dark clothes too. So wear light colors while outside.
Not a bad idea! Will definitely add it to my list of things to help keep them away. They are attracted to carbon dioxide too… I tried not breathing outside but …. That didn’t work :-)
Thank you for the advice. What I love about your video is that you actually reply to questions.
Absolutely fantastic!!!!
I do what I must! Just kidding. Thanks for your support… feel free to recommend us to others ;-)
thanks for sharing! Tis the season is right!
Need to get them out soon. Probably start of April to get a good run at it. When it gets into June it’s too hot. They still work but I don’t find it as effective
I like it. Thanks for sharing!. 👏
Anything seems to only help minimally this year . Where we live they are about as bad as we have seen in 10 years
It worked thanks beautiful
Appreciate your kind remarks! Glad it worked!
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glad it could help!
I did this in a measuring cup, I attached a empty bouillon containers drilled holes in the lid, divided into 2, attached them to my bug zapper, BAM major fireworks 🎆
Love the eBay tape!! Lol I use that stuff for everything 😂
I know right!
Add a drop or two of dish soap Its a surfactant and the mosquitos sink and "drown". The black or dark color Rootbeer bottles work best
Oooo…. Good ideas…!
The recipe I use is sugar and yeast like you suggest but instead of salt use instead boric acid. This is the recipe for Spartan Pro Tech. Boric acid is definitely a bug killer and probably more potent than salt, and it's not expensive.
Nice. We may have to mix it up and try it !
I am going to give the DIY version a go. The Bti referred in the ‘Spartan’ active ingredients can be found in Mosquito Bits so I’ll be adding these into my mix. I suspect that the mosquito traps alone won’t eradicate mosquitoes but combined with a Thermocell and spraying the garden/plants with a solution containing Bifenthrin should keep them at bay!
Let us know how they work!
Would have been nice if you had shown the results the next day of what was caught in the trap.
The first traps do not "catch" them. they just eat the stuff and fly off and die. nothing to show i am afraid. The second one does trap them and they die. kind of gross to show. when full enough we just through out the entire trap rather than rinse and re-use.
@@TheHappyHootie I am not sure how they can't fly off from the 2nd trap.
Your video said not to add the salt if you're making the trap with an old soda bottle, but the instructions indicate salt should be added for the home made trap as well. Which is correct?
Adding it to both would not hurt anything. You don’t “need” to add the salt to the bottle trap as it is exactly that… a trap. They get inside and can’t get out and drown / die.
In the spartan tubes they don’t “die” inside the actual trap. They drink the mix and dehydrate as they just drink saltwater thinking it is a tasty treat.
The spartan I got says active ingredient is boric acid.
This comment section is weird, haha. Why don't y'all just make one and test the results yourself? This person is just showing you a "how to". They aren't solving all of your problems for you!
Either way, thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it out and see if it works for me. Crazy, i know!
Everyone is a critic. :-)
Sounds like me❤❤I got bit last night while cooking dinner 😔 on my stomach 🤦♀️ it's the blood type... you're probably o+
Ugh… it is the worst. I’ll need to check the blood type but you may be right.
@@TheHappyHootie I rarely get bit while others are being eaten alive all around me.... It's been that way since i was a kid.... the only thing I can think of is that I use GARLIC in all of it's forms as I like on probably 85-90% of the meals I eat.... When I go out to eat? There's always a garlic powder and an onion powder shaker that stay in the truck AND the car.... I absolutely LOVE garlic in all it's forms as well as onions.... otherwise I have NO idea why I rarely get bit..... I mean I don't stink or anything... Or I've never been told I did.... except for the occasional fart here n there... I can drop and roll in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac and nothing happens either... years ago we were clearing out some woods behind my cousin's house and were raking and cutting and burning the rubbish and her husband ended up in the hospital on a ventilator with tubes down his throat, his face looked like a pumpkin with slits where his eyes were from breathing in the smoke that came from the poison ivy and oak that had been burned... Nobody even thought about anything like that.... and HE never mentioned anything about it till he started feeling short of breath an hour or so after we were done and had left... Back in the old days he'd have died! Had he been too far from a hospital he'd have died.... He was in there for 11 days.... they induced a coma for 6 of that....
@@1956tojo sounds… horrible
I thought the Spartan devices also had borax as well?
How often do the contents need to be changed?
We just set them up at beginning of season and let it ride… if it gets hot it will run out of liquid then remix and add more.
I’m sure for max effectiveness it would be good to check and add to it every other month but that’s just best guess
How much salt do you use for the old Spartan tubes?
I don’t believe it was much. I would have to review but I thought it was like a teaspoon or something
They love you because your blood is full of wine
Nice. Drunk mosquitos 🦟 to the rescue 🛟
How long does the yeast last?
Also my question.
what does the sugar do? and what does the yeast do?
Yeast eats the sugar and produces co2
@@Longbranchking thx
Where is the resolt
The results for us are night and day difference. We can go outside without fear of being eaten alive. Granted… we live in several acres and have placed these around the perimeter of our property.
We have heard for those that live on small lots that this doesn’t work as they place them too close to their homes and end up attracting bugs instead of killing them.
Results may vary
What kills them.. don't you need salt
The salt helps dehydrate them. they want to drink and keep drinking until dried out. same as you drinking salt water.
😂 do you still it after it the carbon monoxide off the sugar being burned with the yeast just making a sugar Mash🎉
Hmm… interesting
it works with fruit flyes...
Good to know!
@@TheHappyHootie perhaps using some beer in the bottle will atract the mosquitoes, I will let you know if it works ;)
there is one mosquitoes trap that realy work, becouse it has inside what they like, I invented that trap,and it k1ll 80,000,000
I put hamsters inside a wood box,they live confortable there,and on the open top a insect electrocuter without the nonsense violet light(that atract only butterflyes) , and that trap acts to k1ll them when they try to get the hamsters blood,it kills thousands of mosquitos if put outside,K1LL ONLY MOSQUITOS. The smell and hot of the rats atract imediatly all mosquitos flying near that trap,thats what they looking for...
@@lancelottavola9685 it would attract me!
@@TheHappyHootie it would atract cats too ;)
PSA: Spartan Mosquito Eradicators DO NOT decrease the populations of the most common medically significant mosquitoes you will encounter in your garden, and likely have zero effect on the number of bites you get. You will inevitably think you are getting bitten less, but this is a well-known phenomenon called the placebo effect.
If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes, here’s what works:
a) removing any standing water (old tires, plastic bags, planter saucers, children’s toys, etc.)
b) avoiding the outdoors when most medically significant mosquitoes (Aedes, Anopheles, Culex) are active. This is dawn and dusk.
c) wearing long, loose clothing (preferably treated with Permethrin).
d) wearing a personal insect repellent (synthetic repellents almost always work better than natural repellents, and they’re just as safe, but you can use natural repellents if you prefer).
Really, you need to do all of those, but even doing one or two of them can go a long way.
Here’s a good study showing that the specific product, Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, is ineffective. I can say with some confidence that none of the commercially available mosquito traps or adulticides effectively control mosquito populations (adulticides like those pointless mosquito spraying trucks may give temporary relief, but as long as there’s habitat and food mosquitoes will return within hours).
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=spartan+mosquito+eradicator&oq=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3Dh-ZLjTfBAXsJ
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rui-De-Xue/publication/342562143_JFMCA672020/links/5efb419f92851c52d609f552/JFMCA672020.pdf#page=86
We also show how to make a home made trap out of a 2 liter bottle. So those not work either? It was my understanding that when the insects fly into this inverted lid they get trapped inside. Many sites say this works.
I agree prevention is worth a pound of cure and removing breeding grounds on your property is key!
@@TheHappyHootie Correct, the Bob Villa version doesn't work, either. Jars filled with sugar, water, and yeast attract fruit flies and wasps, not mosquitoes.
@@cpurrin1 then I guess just fill the bottle full of DEET ! Drive them all away!
@TheHappyHootie did the traps work in your experiment ?
@@bobrock9450 it’s a valid question. Did it work for us? I think so. This year was exceptionally bad for mosquitoes here in the Midwest due to mild winters. After a couple weeks we noticed a substantial decline in populations. They are not “eliminated” but it is now bearable to play outside with the kids without being eaten alive.
I will say… we are a unique situation where we line on several acres . By placing these traps further away from the house we have not “attracted” mosquitoes to the house . Some have claimed these traps make it worse… I think they if you place these close to your house they may do more harm than good.
Hope it helps.
A table would of been more appropriate !!!
For future videos I will take that into consideration! Thanks for the feedback
@@TheHappyHootie You do your videos as you see fit... You did just fine darlin... pay no attention to the lemonheads without the mental capacity to make their own (perfect no doubt) videos.... incompetency is their forte...
@@1956tojo I appreciate your honesty. Rare these days!
this plan doesn't work, according to a very old video with 3 million views.
Why don't you show it after it actually works???????Duhhhhhhh
Just put out another set this year on May 1st 🥇