Mosquito Magnet

Posted by jennifer on June 19, 2007 in At Home.

I thought I would be highly adventurous yesterday so I went out and bought a Liberty Plus Mosquito Magnet. Have you ever heard of one of these things? It's a 40 pound contraption that has a butane tank (whatever you use for your grill) that blows out a plume of Co2 from a nozzel. The idea is that the breeding female mosquitos are attracted to this plume and hence, get sucked into a net and die. I know it sounds complicated but it is working slowly. HOWEVER, this device has caused me much anguish as to where to place it. I've researched the website, figured out where the mosquitos are nesting but I'm not quite sure if it's really working to it's full potential. I had someone set it up for me and let's just say that there wasn't much instruction on the part where you have to change the net or put in more mosquito attractant. I don't even know where that goes! Hmmm. So, needless to say, a few mosquitos have fallen to their death in the magnet but tomorrow I will be spending my lunch time wheeling it around the backyard hoping to place it perfectly near the breeding ground, upwind from the bugs and take it apart to figure out where and how to refill the mosquito attractor fluid. Let's hope it works! Isn't this exciting? Ah, life in the country... Ha!

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