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Mosquito drowner
Have a mosquito attractor (LEDs or a bug light) under a clear dish, have the dish full of soapy water; if the mosquitos land on the water the super wettability drowns them. | |
More eradicating malaria ideas...
I am note sure if mosquitoes will land on fresh water and then stand there on the surface tension or not. If they do, then if they land on soapy water the super wettability could make them drown.
Place a mosquito attractor like a color, a bug light, or LEDS under
the clear dish and the room is cleared of mosquitoes.
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High-voltage zappers that fry the little bastards in a smoky blue flash are much more satisfying. |
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However, this idea is worth trying. Just a small amount of surfactant, though, so that they drown slowly, and it's possible to enjoy their pitiful struggles and death-throes over many hours via the integral webcam - that way, you can enjoy their suffering even when you're not at home. |
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Do cats sink in soapy water ... ? |
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What needs to be done is to kill them at the larval stage,
before they ever break the water's surface plane. Make
enough crests so as to drown them before they take flight. |
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//Do cats sink in soapy water....?// Would your skin keep
the rain off my lawnmower? Ha. |
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That depends on how big your lawnmower is, shirley ? |
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He can't be _that_ big, shirley? |
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Biting mosquitoes aren't really drawn toward bug lights. They want CO2, methane, and heat |
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A portable compost heap would do it. |
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You'd have to persuade him to give up the leadership of the
labour party, though. |
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I don't understand the methane bit. Attracted to farts?
The others make sense. |
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