Seasonal Mosquito Treatment

Treatment consists of a 6 month service from May - Oct. Traps are placed outdoors and maintained on a routine schedule of every 4 weeks using refill sachets. Traps will then be collected at the end of the season

Mosquitoes are attracted to small breeding sites and have a unique egg-laying behavior. They spread their eggs over several breeding sites to give their offspring a better chance of survival. These traps exploit this behavior by contaminating the female mosquito body and using her to spread larvicide to multiple breeding sites around the Trap. Via this "auto-dissemination" the Trap can kill virtually all mosquito larvae in its surroundings before these become biting adults. In this way small cryptic breeding can be effectively controlled.

·    Effectively controls the mosquitoes that transmits Zika

·     Green innovation - reduced use of chemicals

·     Does not target plants or beneficial insects as
      bees or butterflies

·     Give 24 hours / day protection

·     Pet- friendly

How does it work?

The Mosquito Trap is made of durable plastic and uses water with an odor lure to attract egg-laying mosquitoes. Once inside, mosquitoes contact the specially treated gauze near the water surface and get contaminated with a larvicide and a fungus. We exploit the fact that Mosquitoes like to divide their eggs over multiple sites; by letting them fly out of the Trap whilst carrying larvicide on their legs. They transport the larvicide and contaminate several breeding sites around the Trap. In this way, we can kill larvae in small and hard to find breeding sources. The mosquito also gets infected with an insect-specific fungus that kills her before she can spread disease.

Video on how the In2Care

Mosquito Trap works

https://youtu.be/jC90BBiF4OM