The Moskiller can eradicate mosquitoes from your backyard without any chemicals

[boingboingshop]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/05/the-moskiller-can-eradicate-mo.html

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[vonbobo]

[NoThisIsPatrick]

anti-escape storage box.

anti-escape. i don’t know why i have so much trouble with that little bit of copy.

anti-escape.

[billatq]

I thought female mosquitos aren’t really all that attracted to UV light and that CO2 is a better way to attract them. I’d be suspicious of this product’s efficacy.

[anothernewbbaccount]

bionic temperatures

WTF?

[d_r]

Moss killer?

[realMosKiller]

From Wikipedia:
Mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and water vapor in the breath of mammals, not ultraviolet light . However, there are now bug zappers that emit carbon dioxide or use an external bait, such as octenol, to better attract biting insects into the light .

[anon75430791]

@billatq

I thought female mosquitos aren’t really all that attracted to UV light and that CO2 is a better way to attract them. I’d be suspicious of this product’s efficacy.

This would explain this product’s amazon reviews. 63% give it 1 star.

[Woodchuck45]

About 15 years ago, Boing Boing advertised something similar to one of these out of the Neiman Marcus catalog, and I bought it based off that recommendation. It was pricey, but if it worked as advertised it would have been be well worth it. In a complete summer, not one mosquito popped up in the trap. Not a single mosquito.

I use Cutter backyard spray every month now and it’s much more effective.

[Edgar_Carpenter]

UV light based mosquito killing devices were shown to be ineffective by researchers a long time ago. I don’t know why Boing Boing is advertising one. They just don’t attract many mosquitos at all.

But, of course, the old screen-attached-to-the-back-of-a-fan trick works really well. And it’s cheap. And it’s easy.

How to Get Rid Of Mosquitoes with a Fan & Window Screen - NightHawkInLight

Just one youtube video about making one. Enter “fan screen mosquito trap” in youtube.

[nodolra]

@boingboingshop

a wide range of over 200 square feet.

That’s about an 8’ radius. Not particularly wide if you ask me.

[nodolra]

@billatq

CO2 is a better way

Oh, but then it wouldn’t be free from those nasty evil “chemicals”, would it?

Admittedly, the world really doesn’t need more CO2 emissions.

[stephen_schenck]

a universal USB port

Shouldn’t that be “a universal SB port?”

[billatq]

Neat, looks like this has even been commercialized: https://www.skeeterbag.com/

Boing Boing should sell these things instead.

[billatq]

So no more humans?

[JohnEightThirty]

The Centers for Disease Control calls them the world’s deadliest animal.

I’ve heard it said that mosquitos have killed 55 billion people.

[DukeTrout]

@billatq

I thought female mosquitos aren’t really all that attracted to UV light and that CO2 is a better way to attract them. I’d be suspicious of this product’s efficacy

Exactly. The UV means this device will draw in a lot of other insects; benevolent ones, while missing most of the mosquitos without a CO2 concentrator.

@nodolra

Admittedly, the world really doesn’t need more CO2 emissions

You don’t need to generate CO2, just concentrate it. Have you ever made bread? Then you’ve generated more CO2 than this would.

[anon73192581]

I think its more likely a “Universal BS Port”.

[ferg]

@Edgar_Carpenter

UV light based mosquito killing devices were shown to be ineffective by researchers a long time ago. I don’t know why Boing Boing is advertising one.

Could it have anything to do with money?

[anothernewbbaccount]

@ferg

Could it have anything to do with money?

Indeed it could. And @Edgar_Carpenter, technically, BB is not advertising this product. It is merely renting page space to StackCommerce whose home page’s first message is:

Monetize in a way that makes you proud

Not sure what pride level BB has in these crapgadget adverts, but they do generate page views and lots of comment, so there’s that.