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I Hate Mosquitoes

June 19, 2006 by bofe

Citronella won’t work.

Neither will OFF! sprays.

I’m pretty desperate for anti-mosquito solutions during the summer time. The next ones I’ll be trying?

  • Mosquito Mega Catch – for home. We can just put one of these bad boys out back and watch the bastards die.
  • L.L. Bean Buzz Off Shirt – for travel. It uses similar methods for extermination that the Mega Catch uses.

The trap uses a strip of octenol (to generate a scent that resembles breath), a UV bulb, and flashing LEDs (oscillating frequencies determined to coincide with spectral sensitivities of many mosquitoes). When mosquitoes get close to the trap, the patented airflow system that disperses the attractant sucks the insects inside, where they are collected in a mesh catch bag or a liquid catch pan that is easy and safe to empty.In a USDA suburban test, our trap captured up to 1,200 mosquitoes in a single night and diminished mosquito populations over an entire acre.

Ohhh yes. I can’t wait to nuke those bastards.

Posted in Personal | Tagged Personal | 6 Comments

6 Responses

  1. on June 19, 2006 at 09:05 Clayton

    You have to pay me rent before you spend $200 dollars on Mosquitoe removal! hahaha….


  2. on June 19, 2006 at 10:58 Bittel

    I have to say that rubbing an Onion on the mosquitoe bite will help it my jigga, for real, it sounds stupid but it works, kinda like when Scott had the hicups at the Spiders Web and the bartender threw a match in the water and scott drank it and his hicups went away, stupid but effective. w0rd


  3. on June 19, 2006 at 11:04 burris

    the mosquito mega catch can be created for less than $3, it just wont have the LED’s which im kind of skeptical about anyway, all you need is water, yeast, and brown sugar, in a 2 liter bottle that you’ve cut the top off of and inverted like a funnel back into the bottle, you put about 4 inches of the yeasty sugar water in the bottom and it creates the same gas as you breathe out and sugar to attract them too, and cover the bottle with black paper since they like dark cool places and a 2 liter bottle will last you 2 weeks


  4. on June 19, 2006 at 11:09 burris

    http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/
    there ya go, exactly what i was talking about

    oh and you can always get a couple of bat boxes in the backyard, they’re fun to watch at dusk and they eat a shit load of bugs.


  5. on June 19, 2006 at 16:23 Chris Sanders

    I have always heard that if you take anti-static dryer sheets and find a way to put a few of them under your clothes against your skin that those will deter mosquitos.


  6. on July 2, 2006 at 11:51 Ibz

    fuckin mosquitoes..i fuckin hate them..my girlfriend was gonna come visit me in india from the states and now her fukcin stupid madman of a dad is cancellin her trip..
    i hate FUCKING MOSQUITOES..id rape them all if their ass was big enuff



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