Have a couple of small, shallow ponds at my camp in the boonies. Two dried up the last two years, killing off most of the dragonfly population. (Takes 'em two years underwater to mature.) We no longer have Combat Air Patrol, fine at our house though. So bad out there that bug spray doesn’t work even if you bathe in it. Never had issues before. Because I had dragonflies. I’m sure the 10" of snow, in Florida upset things just a tad. Fucking global warming.
Anyway, searched a bit and everyone wants to sell me a bug zapper. A) I don’t have power unless I run a genny. B) Those things are indiscriminate and we humans have nuked the insect population as is.
There has to be some way to attract them into a trap. I know they target mammalian CO2 exhalations, and to a lesser extent, warmth. Seems like there should be an easy way to suck the mindless beasts into a black hole. ?
There are big expensive mosquito magnets that take a propane tank and electricity to run (these are environmentally ok) and the Thermacell device (somewhat dubious but very effective). Source: Finland, the land of mosquitos
Can confirm the gas powered ones work really well, but you gotta run it early in the season to catch the fuckers right after hatching.
A friend lives in moscito hell and could probably make burgers daily with the amount he catches.
Source: Norway. Also a mosquite hellhole, like Finland
I’ve had those thermacell things and it was just filled with bugs EXCEPT mosquitos lol