Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!
HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP: Ite...ms needed: 1 cup of water 1/4 cup of brown sugar 1 gram of yeast 1 2-liter bottle
HOW: 1. Cut the plastic bottle in half. 2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle. 3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes. 4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired. 5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)
Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.
Beth54 said
01:33 AM Apr 14, 2013
Woops meant to add to the tips thread. I'll ask Cindy to delete this double up.
jules47 said
01:35 AM Apr 14, 2013
Thought it was such a good idea you posted it twice Beth!!!!!!!
Beth54 said
01:50 AM Apr 14, 2013
jules47 wrote:
Thought it was such a good idea you posted it twice Beth!!!!!!!
Well I did, just not twice in General.
bill12 said
02:44 AM Apr 14, 2013
Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill
vk6tnc said
02:48 AM Apr 14, 2013
Good idea. I have used a similar contraption to catch flies, but with a different recipe inside.
Commercial mozie traps are very expensive, but use CO2 for bait as well....
johnnz said
03:00 AM Apr 14, 2013
have been traveling and cycling in South Australia for a few months, mozzies are no problem here. That's my solution
landy said
05:02 AM Apr 14, 2013
bill12 wrote:
Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill
This is were some one is supposed to say but isn't that cruel?. answer. only if you get your thumbs between the blocks.
Landy
johnq said
08:16 AM Apr 14, 2013
Beth54 wrote:
Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!
A bottle of blood-sucking females
herbie said
08:16 AM Apr 14, 2013
What a beaut cheap method ....If you put a patent out on your idea, you would become one very rich lady ...Here alone on QLD ,I am guessing it would work for those pesky midge's as well.Now for the $1000 question have you got any thing to kill the toads.They are every where up here since we had the floods.
Cloak said
02:38 PM Apr 14, 2013
I use mozzie coils, they disable midges too. However your method would seem to reduce an entire population.
bill12 said
03:46 PM Apr 14, 2013
The two blocks of wood method works on the toads, but the buggas keep jumping around, which makes it a bit harder........still fun, though. Bill
Gerty Dancer said
03:59 PM Apr 14, 2013
The most satisfying fun I ever had was disposing of a bunch of cane toads with a shovel! Splat!!! Its also fun to run over them, as they go "Pop" but its not a safe thing to do if there's traffic around. In PNG at the army base at Goldie river the Officers and Sgt mess had a comp going each dry season to see who could run over the most cane toads... not much traffic around there at night.
Going back to the mosquito topic, of all the bugs that stick to the windscreen, there doesn't seem to be many mosquitoes.
The thing I like most about it is that it's non chemical. I'm trying more and more to get away from chemicals, food additives etc.
I haven't actually tried this out to see if it in fact works.
Bill, 2 blocks of wood takes energy, this doesn't. You can just sit back and watch the little suckers go in!
GD, I can't stand that pop when you run over a toad. Don't get me wrong, I hate cane toads, I just can't handle the thought of all that guts oozing out. Same with coc.kroaches or any other little critter...I can't stand on anything that's going to ooze guts.
Gerty Dancer said
06:10 PM Apr 14, 2013
At least they die quickly Beth, I've seen people run over them with a lawn mower... effective but cruel. And the mossies would die happy in that trap too.
Wombat 280 said
07:31 PM Apr 14, 2013
bill12 wrote:
Looks great, Beth. I am still using the two blocks of wood method. Never fails. You take one block in right hand and other in left, and place mossie in between. Now strike together.-always works for me..........Bill
Works on ****ies and spiders just as well Make sure the blocks are marked A and B to A's won't work as well
Beth54 said
09:19 PM Apr 14, 2013
Gerty Dancer wrote:
At least they die quickly Beth, I've seen people run over them with a lawn mower... effective but cruel. And the mossies would die happy in that trap too.
Yes that's cruel. I don't like toads but I don't like people being cruel to any animal. I knew a bloke who used to practice his golf swing on them, but that wasn't a permanent solution, just moved them from point A to point B.
Happywanderer said
09:38 PM Apr 14, 2013
I made up this recipe after reading it on another site couple of days ago. As I already had the fly bottles, I made it up in there. Don't think its caught anything yet but the little blighters are still biting me at night.
GaryKelly said
09:47 PM Apr 14, 2013
No such thing as cruelty to toads or mozzies. As to two blocks of wood, I prefer my swat. I enjoy the competition. Who's quicker, me or them? SPLAT! Me!
bill12 said
11:31 PM Apr 14, 2013
The north Korean method is to threaten the toads and mossies with nuclear war. You have to watch , though, as after the fallout they mutate and come back as politicians..........Bill
Gerty Dancer said
11:42 PM Apr 14, 2013
bill12 wrote:
The north Korean method is to threaten the toads and mossies with nuclear war. You have to watch , though, as after the fallout they mutate and come back as politicians..........Bill
Delta18 said
03:22 AM Apr 15, 2013
I made up this trap last summer....I still got more mozzies slapping them on my arms & legs than the trap ever caught
Put the yeast into a nice fresh loaf of multigrain bread I reckon.
Cheers Neil
Beth54 said
03:28 AM Apr 15, 2013
Delta18 wrote:
I made up this trap last summer....I still got more mozzies slapping them on my arms & legs than the trap ever caught
Put the yeast into a nice fresh loaf of multigrain bread I reckon.
Cheers Neil
Oh bugga! I probably should have tried it out before sharing.
jimricho said
03:55 AM Apr 15, 2013
Just the thing for trapping homemade mosquitoes.
Happywanderer said
05:47 PM Apr 15, 2013
It works!! I put mine outside under the staircase to upstairs. Thats where I got bitten badly when doing the garden.
Checked this morning, theres bugs of all sizes in there. Tiny ones that could be midgies up to large mozzies and flies.
Will be making one up at Wuruma for sure.
Beth54 said
08:40 PM Apr 15, 2013
jimricho wrote:
Just the thing for trapping homemade mosquitoes.
Plenty of homemade mossies around here!
Glad to hear that Marj.
-- Edited by Beth54 on Monday 15th of April 2013 08:40:44 PM
herbie said
04:47 AM Apr 16, 2013
The bottle design can also be used to trap Wasps..but my mother inlaw used Cotties( Red colour ) cordigal, .She just put a hole each side of cut down bottle and made a hanger out of an old wire coat hanger.She had it hanging off her apple tree,and she used to trap 100s in it during wasp season.
Beth54 said
12:08 AM Apr 17, 2013
herbie wrote:
The bottle design can also be used to trap Wasps..but my mother inlaw used Cotties( Red colour ) cordigal, .She just put a hole each side of cut down bottle and made a hanger out of an old wire coat hanger.She had it hanging off her apple tree,and she used to trap 100s in it during wasp season.
I'll have to pass that one on to my daughters hubby. He's allergic to wasps.
HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP:
Ite...ms needed:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
1 2-liter bottle
HOW:
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)
Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control.
Woops meant to add to the tips thread. I'll ask Cindy to delete this double up.
Thought it was such a good idea you posted it twice Beth!!!!!!!
Commercial mozie traps are very expensive, but use CO2 for bait as well....
have been traveling and cycling in South Australia for a few months, mozzies are no problem here. That's my solution
This is were some one is supposed to say but isn't that cruel?. answer. only if you get your thumbs between the blocks.
Landy
A bottle of blood-sucking females
What a beaut cheap method ....If you put a patent out on your idea, you would become one very rich lady ...Here alone on QLD ,I am guessing it would work for those pesky midge's as well.Now for the $1000 question have you got any thing to kill the toads.They are every where up here since we had the floods.
Its also fun to run over them, as they go "Pop" but its not a safe thing to do if there's traffic around. In PNG at the army base at Goldie river the Officers and Sgt mess had a comp going each dry season to see who could run over the most cane toads... not much traffic around there at night.
Going back to the mosquito topic, of all the bugs that stick to the windscreen, there doesn't seem to be many mosquitoes.
Sadly I can't take credit for this idea. I pinched it off https://www.facebook.com/FreeCampingAustralia7?fref=ts
The thing I like most about it is that it's non chemical. I'm trying more and more to get away from chemicals, food additives etc.
I haven't actually tried this out to see if it in fact works.
Bill, 2 blocks of wood takes energy, this doesn't. You can just sit back and watch the little suckers go in!
GD, I can't stand that pop when you run over a toad. Don't get me wrong, I hate cane toads, I just can't handle the thought of all that guts oozing out. Same with coc.kroaches or any other little critter...I can't stand on anything that's going to ooze guts.
And the mossies would die happy in that trap too.
Works on ****ies and spiders just as well Make sure the blocks are marked A and B to A's won't work as well
Yes that's cruel. I don't like toads but I don't like people being cruel to any animal. I knew a bloke who used to practice his golf swing on them, but that wasn't a permanent solution, just moved them from point A to point B.
I made up this trap last summer....I still got more mozzies slapping them on my arms & legs than the trap ever caught
Put the yeast into a nice fresh loaf of multigrain bread I reckon.
Cheers Neil
Oh bugga!
I probably should have tried it out before sharing. 
Checked this morning, theres bugs of all sizes in there. Tiny ones that could be midgies up to large mozzies and flies.
Will be making one up at Wuruma for sure.
Glad to hear that Marj.
-- Edited by Beth54 on Monday 15th of April 2013 08:40:44 PM
The bottle design can also be used to trap Wasps..but my mother inlaw used Cotties( Red colour ) cordigal, .She just put a hole each side of cut down bottle and made a hanger out of an old wire coat hanger.She had it hanging off her apple tree,and she used to trap 100s in it during wasp season.
I'll have to pass that one on to my daughters hubby. He's allergic to wasps.