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Mosquitoes, meet your maker. A DIY trap kills thousands of the biting bugs
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(Video still from Dan Rojas of GreenPowerScience.com)
Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on May 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, updated May 27, 2014 at 7:04 PM If you're waging war on mosquitoes, don't waste your money on a bug zapper. They aren't much of a solution. You're more likely to catch moths than mosquitoes in the buzzing devices, and, as the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board says, "bug zappers do more harm than good."
If you want a DIY weapon for your fight against the bite, Dan Rojas of GreenPowerScience.com has an easy, inexpensive trap that's both effective (it will kill thousands of mosquitoes in just 24 hours) and gratifying (you take the battle to the bugs without lifting a bottle of DEET).
In a video posted on Ebaumsworld.com, Rojas uses magnets to attach a mesh screen to the back of a standard-issue box fan, the kind you can find in any big-box home improvement store. He uses a Max Flow air fan from Home Depot in the video...
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(Video still from Dan Rojas of GreenPowerScience.com)
Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on May 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, updated May 27, 2014 at 7:04 PM If you're waging war on mosquitoes, don't waste your money on a bug zapper. They aren't much of a solution. You're more likely to catch moths than mosquitoes in the buzzing devices, and, as the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board says, "bug zappers do more harm than good."
If you want a DIY weapon for your fight against the bite, Dan Rojas of GreenPowerScience.com has an easy, inexpensive trap that's both effective (it will kill thousands of mosquitoes in just 24 hours) and gratifying (you take the battle to the bugs without lifting a bottle of DEET).
In a video posted on Ebaumsworld.com, Rojas uses magnets to attach a mesh screen to the back of a standard-issue box fan, the kind you can find in any big-box home improvement store. He uses a Max Flow air fan from Home Depot in the video...