ONE-WAY Mosquito Traps™ 

I started with the simple just a T with an exit and the funnel to get the mossy into it.

as pictured just  T woth side openings about 1/2 inch diameter.    Mosquitos wereable to figure this out and go both directions  

I used a sink strainer that you buy from hardware stores cut a hole in it as it is similar to a funel. and hot glued a tube of door screen onto it.   

here the arrows show mosquitos that have escaped to the top container through the attempted trap.   

next veriation the t has a reducer that as seen there are many moswuitoes that escaped from the hatching chamber to the top chamber.

The cans cover the bottom hatching chamber to no light is below.     They raise up through the trap to the light and vented top jar.    And they navigate through the T and an angled narrowed exit.   

So the next issue is can you go the other direction, so I reverse the screen to hang  own.   

Here are  three different trials.  Again I keep the bottom covered and kept in dark so they emerge to the top as seen many have escaped.  

First we have to prove they can go into the one way and get out.   These prove that.

Here the traps were reversed so that the difficult path is on the bottom.    

two of the three had zero mosquitos escape the first day.  

you should be able to zoom into the pictures.  

here you can see the dead floating mosquitos that could not escape and live ones also still not able to escape.  

You can see some live mosquitos trying to get out on the sink strainer.   That is the deception area that fools them that they get out there.  

This trap did allow 4 out.  Four of them were able to get out of this trap.   here is the final pic to the trap that had the most mosquitos  there are hundreds that could not escape when the trap was in the position reversed as hoped.   The dead ones are all over, including sunk.   no more wigglers in this container.     Note for reference then the trap was reversed every mosquito escaped out the first day which was about 40, almost all that had hatched, maybe 5 had not made it to the top yet.    I then reversed it and about 4 out of 200+ got out the one way trap.

So 98% effective is the estimate.  

After testing and coming to a conclusion that a one way is doable with a contolled experiment the next phase is can we catch wild mosquitos that want to lay eggs?   In theory these should prevent them from escaping at a 98% rate.      We can work on hitting 100% later.   

Below I placed a trap inside a black garbage can with a entry hole to the top, this traps entry hole was small about 2 cm, 3/4 inch in diameter and it did work.    I also put on sone black plastic around the entire top.     

Here is atrap with a live wild mosquito, again if he has bit an infected person the disease trail ended here.  

here is a dead mosquito 

Here the bottle is a week or so later with another dead mosquito and larvae swimming around.

Here is the trap out of the black garbage can with the black plastic shroud..

another style trap catching wild mosquitos, one dead one is live.   This trap style was to be easier to make but it did not seem as efficient, I made 4 of these and only this one caught mossys. 

 Here is another trap that the wild mosquito is at the top wanting to escape but she can not.   

another style trap with the snap off top. 

pictured a mosquito who wants out.   

A couple wild mosquitos that are dead. that if they were infected we would have prevented the cycle of spreading disease.   

Note I have a bunch of these traps right where the mosquitos bite me within 3 feet.  These are the same as others with just water and I have not caught any right there.   

They seem to want to go at least 10 feet away from that location to lay eggs.   

I want to make the part you stick into a coke bottle like this.    These would sell for $1.00.  But I have to make a bunch and see if they are as effective as the ones that were with holes on the top.     They should be as this is how many ovi-traps are constructed.    I made this with black coated aluminum screen material.     I cut the hole with scissors, (to cut I smashed the bottle to have a fold as it is easy to cut a half circle.   then with a stick pressed it back in shape.    Materials needed were one 3 liter bottle, hot glue, a stick, scissors, and the aluminum screen material.   I will pit this in a black garbage can with a small black cover that does not close the entire garbage can.   

So to be clear I will be testing this version shortly.    and then I will put a video to how to make it here too.   

This is a 3 liter bottle. here is a side view you can see i wound the screen material into  a smaller roll.  I used a 3/4 inch tube and hotglues a line when I have about 1 and a half turns done.  This is important.   

 from the front of the hole you can see I bent the very back 1/2 extra turn of the screen to form a almost seal leaving about a 3 mm gap.  

I had cut the front part of the screen so I could bend it as a flap to have a decent seal to the bottle.

Here is the backside it is about 1/2 inch away from the back of the bottle.  

This is a bit hard to figure out but it is very important it allows the mosquito to fly into the bottle then crawl and then fly to the water to lay the eggs.    As you see from the front it is simple to see how the mosquito follows a straight path.   

But here on the backside if they fly up to it to craw around the opening is not obvious from a flight plan large landing area percentage.   

I will take pictues of one without the bottle later it should be clearer than.  

Here is front view again, it looks like it is smashed in a lot but it is minimal.    

I later pushed out that section with a stick from under the cap.

 so here is the general idea...   and below I show pictures of it executed.   I used hot glue for all seams and used a 3/4 inch pipe to form my screen tube.

The ramp is important to tricking the mosquito after she lays eggs.     she will try to enter from the lower part as it is a good landing surface and will walk towards the opening but it is a dead end.    This is critical.

This is 98% effective at this point 4 out of 200 were able to figure it out and escape.   

Now I have not ttested this side entry as all mine have been top entry then a 90 degree turn.    But this should work and is the easiest to make for people all over the world is why I am heading this direction.  

I will do some testing soom.   And what harm does it do for you to make this and test if it works yee ha.  If it doesn't no damage.    It does take time in some locations.

Use rain water is ideal and if you let it get algie is also good.   

I put the bottle in a black garbage can.  you should have one in each bedroom, one by your main door and several outside your home and perimiter.   They cost about 10 cents in material.  

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 10/10/2016

here is a mosquito

caught in a coke bottle....   

here was the container it was in and location.

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Case Study 4

I made a double screen window with a one way trap and did a controlleded containment test and it was effective.     They came in toward the interior of the house and died because they could not escape.    So moved to second stage of real world testing.    But to date I have not captued a single mosquito.    In years past as I sit here in my office spot working I could see the mosquitoes buzzing around hitting the screen trying to find a way in.    But as I said right now no wild catches and to make these will be a larger endvor.  So we will need much greater funding.     again no poisins that the mosquito will develop a resistance too.   

this is also patent pending...

Here are my pictures of me test design that worked in controlled containment.    

three different testing chambers.   these were too easy for the mosquitos to get back out so I had to do similar as the other traps.   

third chamber and again they could figure this out to get back out.  I had to make it much harder.   

I ended up having to cut the back of the pvc for them to come in at a greater number.   

sucess, finally they could not escape.  had to add the special closed trap marked in blue to prevent them from escaping, they were more resourceful than expected.   The red arrows point to trapped mosquitos that did die.    

Again this was with a controlled population and I have yet to get a wild one to fly in.    And as I noted mosquitoes use to hover bouncing off my screen trying to get in at this exact window.     

 this one too took me several intertions before I was able to stop them from returning out.  the plain y tube and T did not work.