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To my knowledge there's no stagnant water on my property, I've run water through all my ptraps, and I'm careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there's at least 3 in my house. I can't sleep, i can't sit on the couch, i can't exist in the fear of being sucked dry.

The breaking point is when i watched my dog get bit on her head. I'm ready to do whatever it takes and then some. I will kill a man if it saves me from these demons. Any ideas?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah that's right! It is CO2. My mind remembered it as propane for some reason.

[โ€“] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Please don't make a propane trap

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the business we just call that a โ€œbombโ€ (hard B)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The middle one

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a clean burning fuel I tell you hwat

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The propaganda from King of the Hill has made for sub-prime cookouts for all my life up until a few months ago.

Believing propane was the superior heating element of the cookout, because of Hank Hill, I never tried a charcoal grill. But when I went to other folks cookouts, it tasted so good. A little sweet and smokiness charred into the meat, "How did they do that?!" I contemplated late into many nights.

I switched to Charcoal after a friendly suggestion, and the difference is mind-blowing. If you're cooking with propane, you might as well be cooking on a stove.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there was an episode of KotH where Bobby and Peggy discover that charcoal was actually superior to propane when it came to taste. It was a whole big thing and hilarious to watch them try to keep it a secret from Hank lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My memory was hazy. It's actually a CO2 trap. Propane trap would be no bueno! ๐Ÿ˜น

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

No wonder your momories are hazy, you inhale too much propane.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Muy malo, one might say.

If fire got close to it, it would be muy malo ayayay

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair it would probably kill some mosquitoes

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or if you do, make sure to film it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are traps which are called mosquito magnets and they hook up to a propane tank to burn a small pilot light which produces CO2 to attract mosquitos and pull them into a bag via a fan.

You want to place them at the edge of your property though not close to your deck because they attract mosquitos in order to kill them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have tried these. They are expensive to run as you need to burn through a tank of propane each month. They do catch some mosquitoes, but they make little overall difference.

Still looking for a working solution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay then go with the electric ones. I had the propane trap and while it worked well the constant propane tank refill was a drag and I certainly couldn't afford multiple.

Enter Dynatrap + Mods.

Dynatrap uses an electric light and fan. It works medium but if you put the octenol attractant in the catch basket it really turbocharged it. Want to kill more? Hang a "bug ball" under the trap covered with Tanglefoot spray. Any mosquito that lands on the ball dies there because they are stuck. The ball will be thoroughly disgusting looking quickly but very effective.

I've spent many years combating.

The Bt mosquito dunks help for any standing water ( have gutters?)

Encourage swallows, bats, frogs too.

Good luck!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I have a dynatrap, Iโ€™m going to try this mod!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Because there's a unit you can buy that burns propane to make CO2 and pull mosquittos away from you to a different area of the yard.