BG-Mosquitaire

Update-8/1/2024: The CO2 tank finally exhausted on this, and I upgraded to a 20 pound tank. I still stand by my original review that this thing is amazing. However, saw it for a few days without the CO2 tank and, while it still works with only scent packets and catches mosquitoes, after I refilled the CO2 tank and reattached, it is crawling with mosquitoes. Totally worth the purchase. Original Review: I've tried everything in my backyard. Mosquito coils, foggers, and even buying targeted insecticides that are supposed to limit mosquito egg development. However, at the end of the day, unless I made sure that I was covered head to toe in high intensity mosquito repellent every time I walked in back, I would get destroyed by mosquitoes. Putting repellent on is fine, but if I would go outside and want to weed for 20 minutes and forget to Put on repellent , I would come back inside and be itchy. I've been looking at this thing for a year and the cost Had really put me off purchasing it. After another crazy spring here in New York, I decided just to bite the bullet and try this though. I'm totally blown away. When I first bought it, I only had the scent packet in it because I needed to wait to find a place where I could source CO2. Even with the scent packet, it caught a good deal of mosquitoes though. However, once I got CO2 attached to this and placed it properly, I haven't had a single bite in the week that I've had this installed. I pull out the bag every day to see how it's doing and the bottom third of it is just filled with mosquito corpses now. We have tiger mosquitoes and the other normal brown looking mosquitoes and I see both of them in here dead. Tips: 1) Place it properly. I have an extension cord running from an exterior outlet and I run this into a corner of my yard where it's hidden behind some foliage in a spot that's shady. 2) Just commit to buying the timer for it so that it's only pumping out CO2 at the most opportune times to target mosquito activity. That's pretty important to cut down on how many times you need to get the tank refilled. 3) just buy a 20 pound tank and figure out a way to have it be easily refilled. I think what I'm going to do is just have a delivery service that comes and picks up the tank every two months when it runs dry and give me a refilled one since I don't have a car and getting into a welding shop to have it refilled would be kind of a pain. Where I live in New York, the mosquito season is about four months. So using the regulator where you time it to come on only at very specific times when the mosquitoes are at their worst, I calculated that I'll spend about $160 a year to have the CO2 replaced. In the grand scheme of things when you think about having to constantly buy repellent, it seems like a worthwhile fixed cost. However, yes, if you live in an area where mosquito season is pretty much all the time, that might not work for everyone financially. For my situation though it's perfect. Yes. You'll need to commit to spending about 400 bucks for the machine itself, the CO2 regulator and your first filled 20 pound tank. However, if you can stomach that initial cost, I don't know of any better system that exists on the planet to keep your Backyard mosquito free . Some people have talked about taking out the bag of mosquitoes and putting it in the freezer to kill them periodically. I guess you could do this, but I don't really see the point. Once they get in here, they're completely trapped due to how the bag is designed (a cone arrangement that mosquitoes can't find their way out of once they're in) and if a mosquitoes trapped in here for two days, it dies on its own due to dehydration. I think it's likely big enough to just leave the bag in here all season and just empty out all the corpses at the end. Less maintenance too. Another thing. Zappers aren't a great technology to get rid of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes aren't attracted to light and bugs zappers kill a lot of other insects that I'm not interested in killing. This thing is super targeted, the only bugs that are trapped in here are mosquitoes. Buy this. You won't regret it. Completely sustainable and you don't have to use poison on your body and your yard to try and attempt to keep mosquitoes off of you. I'm not quite sure what the other reviews are talking about. If you follow the directions and run this thing the way it's supposed to run, you'll be able to live in normal life in your backyard again!

This trap works GREAT! Last year I spent every other weekend spraying for mosquitos and I had a service that came in an sprayed every month and after a week after spraying they were back the tiger and other mosquitos. I Installed this a month ago with the CO2 and the net is filled with both tiger and other mosquitos, this trap is amazing. I now can sit in my backyard with my grand kids un interrupted by pesky mosquitos. I have a 20lbs CO2 tank and it lasts about three weeks, after the CO2 ran out I was still catching tiger mosquitos but nothing else. The sweet scent Lure last about 1 month, after that I saw a decline in catching tiger mosquitos. I replaced the scent lure and it was back catching every last tiger in my back yard. The size of my yard is around 4000 sq feet. I recommend this product to all my friends.

I hesitated to pay this much for a mosquito trap, but I had faith that, since it was aimed at the tiger mosquitos specifically, and had been studied in a peer-reviewed journal for pest vector control, it must be the Real Deal. And, if it works to capture a lot of mosquitos in my yard (and my kids get very bad reactions to these tiger mosquito bites), it would be worth it. I had faith, even, that it would work. In the past month (August - Sept), I've kept it running non-stop, day and night, and tried it in several locations in my backyard – near the heavier plant overgrowth, near the vegetable garden, near the lounge chairs by the pool where we tend to get bitten – and, though I check the trap almost every day, I usually find no insects besides one or two small moths, and, less often, maybe one mosquito. And yet, we are still being stalked by these aggressive little buggers, which leave pancake-sized skin reactions on my young children. Today I dumped out maybe a scant tablespoon of dead flying insect bodies from the past month, and it was pretty much all tiny moths. I put the trap back together carefully. I did a few more tasks in the backyard over the next half hour, and had to go inside because I was getting buzzed by skeeters, and realized that I had been bitten on my lower legs and the itching was setting in. So, we still have plentiful and active Asian tiger mosquitos, but this pricey gadget is not catching them. I regret the purchase, and do not recommend this product.

Don't buy this unless you are in the Americas. They have supplied an American standard CO2 thread to a region which uses British/European standard CO2 thread. EU is 0.86in 14TPI, US is 0.83in 14TPI. So does not fit. FYI Japan also has a different CO2 thread. DUBAI.