Use black or very dark bottles, paint them if you have to. Mosquitoes are attracted to dark things , that goes for dark clothes too. So wear light colors while outside.
Not a bad idea! Will definitely add it to my list of things to help keep them away. They are attracted to carbon dioxide too… I tried not breathing outside but …. That didn’t work :-)
That's a great point but I'm wondering if that will be effective in bright sunlight. Because you know how hot a black bucket of water can become when it sits in the sun for just a few hours (up to 166 degrees F). It may actually get so hot that it deters mosquitoes from entering. Granted, most mosquito species are most active at dawn and dusk but there are exceptions. Or maybe placing a black bottle in a shaded area would do the trick. I guess the thing to do is try it in both light and dark bottles in both sun and shade and compare the results.
@@TheHappyHootie Both you and I apparently have genetics that mosquitoes find delicious! When I walk my dark grey dog, an elderly neighbor woman sometimes follows along. Both my dog and myself attract mosquitoes like a magnet attracts metal. However, I can be standing right next to her and she rarely gets bitten while I'm being eaten alive! It's just not fair! 🤣
The recipe I use is sugar and yeast like you suggest but instead of salt use instead boric acid. This is the recipe for Spartan Pro Tech. Boric acid is definitely a bug killer and probably more potent than salt, and it's not expensive.
Need to get them out soon. Probably start of April to get a good run at it. When it gets into June it’s too hot. They still work but I don’t find it as effective
The first traps do not "catch" them. they just eat the stuff and fly off and die. nothing to show i am afraid. The second one does trap them and they die. kind of gross to show. when full enough we just through out the entire trap rather than rinse and re-use.
@@ahnguyen1 Bugs are generally unable to fly out of traps like that, I don't get it either. If using a smidge of liquid dish soap they sink in the water because the surface tension is gone.
I am going to give the DIY version a go. The Bti referred in the ‘Spartan’ active ingredients can be found in Mosquito Bits so I’ll be adding these into my mix. I suspect that the mosquito traps alone won’t eradicate mosquitoes but combined with a Thermocell and spraying the garden/plants with a solution containing Bifenthrin should keep them at bay!
Your video said not to add the salt if you're making the trap with an old soda bottle, but the instructions indicate salt should be added for the home made trap as well. Which is correct?
Adding it to both would not hurt anything. You don’t “need” to add the salt to the bottle trap as it is exactly that… a trap. They get inside and can’t get out and drown / die. In the spartan tubes they don’t “die” inside the actual trap. They drink the mix and dehydrate as they just drink saltwater thinking it is a tasty treat.
I did this in a measuring cup, I attached a empty bouillon containers drilled holes in the lid, divided into 2, attached them to my bug zapper, BAM major fireworks 🎆
Beer? I have beer already and beer bubbles are CO2 which is the attractive part of the yeast fermentation thing. Anybody tried baiting a trap with just beer?
PSA: Spartan Mosquito Eradicators DO NOT decrease the populations of the most common medically significant mosquitoes you will encounter in your garden, and likely have zero effect on the number of bites you get. You will inevitably think you are getting bitten less, but this is a well-known phenomenon called the placebo effect. If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes, here’s what works: a) removing any standing water (old tires, plastic bags, planter saucers, children’s toys, etc.) b) avoiding the outdoors when most medically significant mosquitoes (Aedes, Anopheles, Culex) are active. This is dawn and dusk. c) wearing long, loose clothing (preferably treated with Permethrin). d) wearing a personal insect repellent (synthetic repellents almost always work better than natural repellents, and they’re just as safe, but you can use natural repellents if you prefer). Really, you need to do all of those, but even doing one or two of them can go a long way. Here’s a good study showing that the specific product, Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, is ineffective. I can say with some confidence that none of the commercially available mosquito traps or adulticides effectively control mosquito populations (adulticides like those pointless mosquito spraying trucks may give temporary relief, but as long as there’s habitat and food mosquitoes will return within hours). scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=spartan+mosquito+eradicator&oq=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3Dh-ZLjTfBAXsJ www.researchgate.net/profile/Rui-De-Xue/publication/342562143_JFMCA672020/links/5efb419f92851c52d609f552/JFMCA672020.pdf#page=86
We also show how to make a home made trap out of a 2 liter bottle. So those not work either? It was my understanding that when the insects fly into this inverted lid they get trapped inside. Many sites say this works. I agree prevention is worth a pound of cure and removing breeding grounds on your property is key!
@@TheHappyHootie Correct, the Bob Villa version doesn't work, either. Jars filled with sugar, water, and yeast attract fruit flies and wasps, not mosquitoes.
@@bobrock9450 it’s a valid question. Did it work for us? I think so. This year was exceptionally bad for mosquitoes here in the Midwest due to mild winters. After a couple weeks we noticed a substantial decline in populations. They are not “eliminated” but it is now bearable to play outside with the kids without being eaten alive. I will say… we are a unique situation where we line on several acres . By placing these traps further away from the house we have not “attracted” mosquitoes to the house . Some have claimed these traps make it worse… I think they if you place these close to your house they may do more harm than good. Hope it helps.
This comment section is weird, haha. Why don't y'all just make one and test the results yourself? This person is just showing you a "how to". They aren't solving all of your problems for you! Either way, thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it out and see if it works for me. Crazy, i know!
We just set them up at beginning of season and let it ride… if it gets hot it will run out of liquid then remix and add more. I’m sure for max effectiveness it would be good to check and add to it every other month but that’s just best guess
@@TheHappyHootie I rarely get bit while others are being eaten alive all around me.... It's been that way since i was a kid.... the only thing I can think of is that I use GARLIC in all of it's forms as I like on probably 85-90% of the meals I eat.... When I go out to eat? There's always a garlic powder and an onion powder shaker that stay in the truck AND the car.... I absolutely LOVE garlic in all it's forms as well as onions.... otherwise I have NO idea why I rarely get bit..... I mean I don't stink or anything... Or I've never been told I did.... except for the occasional fart here n there... I can drop and roll in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac and nothing happens either... years ago we were clearing out some woods behind my cousin's house and were raking and cutting and burning the rubbish and her husband ended up in the hospital on a ventilator with tubes down his throat, his face looked like a pumpkin with slits where his eyes were from breathing in the smoke that came from the poison ivy and oak that had been burned... Nobody even thought about anything like that.... and HE never mentioned anything about it till he started feeling short of breath an hour or so after we were done and had left... Back in the old days he'd have died! Had he been too far from a hospital he'd have died.... He was in there for 11 days.... they induced a coma for 6 of that....
The results for us are night and day difference. We can go outside without fear of being eaten alive. Granted… we live in several acres and have placed these around the perimeter of our property. We have heard for those that live on small lots that this doesn’t work as they place them too close to their homes and end up attracting bugs instead of killing them. Results may vary
there is one mosquitoes trap that realy work, becouse it has inside what they like, I invented that trap,and it k1ll 80,000,000 I put hamsters inside a wood box,they live confortable there,and on the open top a insect electrocuter without the nonsense violet light(that atract only butterflyes) , and that trap acts to k1ll them when they try to get the hamsters blood,it kills thousands of mosquitos if put outside,K1LL ONLY MOSQUITOS. The smell and hot of the rats atract imediatly all mosquitos flying near that trap,thats what they looking for...
@@TheHappyHootie You do your videos as you see fit... You did just fine darlin... pay no attention to the lemonheads without the mental capacity to make their own (perfect no doubt) videos.... incompetency is their forte...
Use black or very dark bottles, paint them if you have to. Mosquitoes are attracted to dark things , that goes for dark clothes too. So wear light colors while outside.
Not a bad idea! Will definitely add it to my list of things to help keep them away. They are attracted to carbon dioxide too… I tried not breathing outside but …. That didn’t work :-)
That's a great point but I'm wondering if that will be effective in bright sunlight. Because you know how hot a black bucket of water can become when it sits in the sun for just a few hours (up to 166 degrees F). It may actually get so hot that it deters mosquitoes from entering. Granted, most mosquito species are most active at dawn and dusk but there are exceptions. Or maybe placing a black bottle in a shaded area would do the trick. I guess the thing to do is try it in both light and dark bottles in both sun and shade and compare the results.
@@TheHappyHootie Both you and I apparently have genetics that mosquitoes find delicious! When I walk my dark grey dog, an elderly neighbor woman sometimes follows along. Both my dog and myself attract mosquitoes like a magnet attracts metal. However, I can be standing right next to her and she rarely gets bitten while I'm being eaten alive! It's just not fair! 🤣
Thank you for the advice. What I love about your video is that you actually reply to questions.
Absolutely fantastic!!!!
I do what I must! Just kidding. Thanks for your support… feel free to recommend us to others ;-)
Add a drop or two of dish soap Its a surfactant and the mosquitos sink and "drown". The black or dark color Rootbeer bottles work best
Oooo…. Good ideas…!
The recipe I use is sugar and yeast like you suggest but instead of salt use instead boric acid. This is the recipe for Spartan Pro Tech. Boric acid is definitely a bug killer and probably more potent than salt, and it's not expensive.
Nice. We may have to mix it up and try it !
thanks for sharing! Tis the season is right!
Need to get them out soon. Probably start of April to get a good run at it. When it gets into June it’s too hot. They still work but I don’t find it as effective
Great job you may have got rid of mosquitoes, and invited army of ants 😅😂
better of 2 evils?? lol!
Would have been nice if you had shown the results the next day of what was caught in the trap.
The first traps do not "catch" them. they just eat the stuff and fly off and die. nothing to show i am afraid. The second one does trap them and they die. kind of gross to show. when full enough we just through out the entire trap rather than rinse and re-use.
@@TheHappyHootie I am not sure how they can't fly off from the 2nd trap.
@@ahnguyen1 Bugs are generally unable to fly out of traps like that, I don't get it either. If using a smidge of liquid dish soap they sink in the water because the surface tension is gone.
I am going to give the DIY version a go. The Bti referred in the ‘Spartan’ active ingredients can be found in Mosquito Bits so I’ll be adding these into my mix. I suspect that the mosquito traps alone won’t eradicate mosquitoes but combined with a Thermocell and spraying the garden/plants with a solution containing Bifenthrin should keep them at bay!
Let us know how they work!
Your video said not to add the salt if you're making the trap with an old soda bottle, but the instructions indicate salt should be added for the home made trap as well. Which is correct?
Adding it to both would not hurt anything. You don’t “need” to add the salt to the bottle trap as it is exactly that… a trap. They get inside and can’t get out and drown / die.
In the spartan tubes they don’t “die” inside the actual trap. They drink the mix and dehydrate as they just drink saltwater thinking it is a tasty treat.
I did this in a measuring cup, I attached a empty bouillon containers drilled holes in the lid, divided into 2, attached them to my bug zapper, BAM major fireworks 🎆
Love the eBay tape!! Lol I use that stuff for everything 😂
I know right!
I like it. Thanks for sharing!. 👏
Anything seems to only help minimally this year . Where we live they are about as bad as we have seen in 10 years
Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
How much salt do you use for the old Spartan tubes?
I don’t believe it was much. I would have to review but I thought it was like a teaspoon or something
They love you because your blood is full of wine
Nice. Drunk mosquitos 🦟 to the rescue 🛟
Beer? I have beer already and beer bubbles are CO2 which is the attractive part of the yeast fermentation thing. Anybody tried baiting a trap with just beer?
I thought the Spartan devices also had borax as well?
PSA: Spartan Mosquito Eradicators DO NOT decrease the populations of the most common medically significant mosquitoes you will encounter in your garden, and likely have zero effect on the number of bites you get. You will inevitably think you are getting bitten less, but this is a well-known phenomenon called the placebo effect.
If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes, here’s what works:
a) removing any standing water (old tires, plastic bags, planter saucers, children’s toys, etc.)
b) avoiding the outdoors when most medically significant mosquitoes (Aedes, Anopheles, Culex) are active. This is dawn and dusk.
c) wearing long, loose clothing (preferably treated with Permethrin).
d) wearing a personal insect repellent (synthetic repellents almost always work better than natural repellents, and they’re just as safe, but you can use natural repellents if you prefer).
Really, you need to do all of those, but even doing one or two of them can go a long way.
Here’s a good study showing that the specific product, Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, is ineffective. I can say with some confidence that none of the commercially available mosquito traps or adulticides effectively control mosquito populations (adulticides like those pointless mosquito spraying trucks may give temporary relief, but as long as there’s habitat and food mosquitoes will return within hours).
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=spartan+mosquito+eradicator&oq=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3Dh-ZLjTfBAXsJ
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rui-De-Xue/publication/342562143_JFMCA672020/links/5efb419f92851c52d609f552/JFMCA672020.pdf#page=86
We also show how to make a home made trap out of a 2 liter bottle. So those not work either? It was my understanding that when the insects fly into this inverted lid they get trapped inside. Many sites say this works.
I agree prevention is worth a pound of cure and removing breeding grounds on your property is key!
@@TheHappyHootie Correct, the Bob Villa version doesn't work, either. Jars filled with sugar, water, and yeast attract fruit flies and wasps, not mosquitoes.
@@cpurrin1 then I guess just fill the bottle full of DEET ! Drive them all away!
@TheHappyHootie did the traps work in your experiment ?
@@bobrock9450 it’s a valid question. Did it work for us? I think so. This year was exceptionally bad for mosquitoes here in the Midwest due to mild winters. After a couple weeks we noticed a substantial decline in populations. They are not “eliminated” but it is now bearable to play outside with the kids without being eaten alive.
I will say… we are a unique situation where we line on several acres . By placing these traps further away from the house we have not “attracted” mosquitoes to the house . Some have claimed these traps make it worse… I think they if you place these close to your house they may do more harm than good.
Hope it helps.
The spartan I got says active ingredient is boric acid.
It worked thanks beautiful
Appreciate your kind remarks! Glad it worked!
This comment section is weird, haha. Why don't y'all just make one and test the results yourself? This person is just showing you a "how to". They aren't solving all of your problems for you!
Either way, thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it out and see if it works for me. Crazy, i know!
Everyone is a critic. :-)
what does the sugar do? and what does the yeast do?
Yeast eats the sugar and produces co2
@@Longbranchking thx
How often do the contents need to be changed?
We just set them up at beginning of season and let it ride… if it gets hot it will run out of liquid then remix and add more.
I’m sure for max effectiveness it would be good to check and add to it every other month but that’s just best guess
How long does the yeast last?
Also my question.
Sounds like me❤❤I got bit last night while cooking dinner 😔 on my stomach 🤦♀️ it's the blood type... you're probably o+
Ugh… it is the worst. I’ll need to check the blood type but you may be right.
@@TheHappyHootie I rarely get bit while others are being eaten alive all around me.... It's been that way since i was a kid.... the only thing I can think of is that I use GARLIC in all of it's forms as I like on probably 85-90% of the meals I eat.... When I go out to eat? There's always a garlic powder and an onion powder shaker that stay in the truck AND the car.... I absolutely LOVE garlic in all it's forms as well as onions.... otherwise I have NO idea why I rarely get bit..... I mean I don't stink or anything... Or I've never been told I did.... except for the occasional fart here n there... I can drop and roll in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac and nothing happens either... years ago we were clearing out some woods behind my cousin's house and were raking and cutting and burning the rubbish and her husband ended up in the hospital on a ventilator with tubes down his throat, his face looked like a pumpkin with slits where his eyes were from breathing in the smoke that came from the poison ivy and oak that had been burned... Nobody even thought about anything like that.... and HE never mentioned anything about it till he started feeling short of breath an hour or so after we were done and had left... Back in the old days he'd have died! Had he been too far from a hospital he'd have died.... He was in there for 11 days.... they induced a coma for 6 of that....
@@1956tojo sounds… horrible
ty
glad it could help!
Where is the resolt
The results for us are night and day difference. We can go outside without fear of being eaten alive. Granted… we live in several acres and have placed these around the perimeter of our property.
We have heard for those that live on small lots that this doesn’t work as they place them too close to their homes and end up attracting bugs instead of killing them.
Results may vary
What kills them.. don't you need salt
The salt helps dehydrate them. they want to drink and keep drinking until dried out. same as you drinking salt water.
😂 do you still it after it the carbon monoxide off the sugar being burned with the yeast just making a sugar Mash🎉
Hmm… interesting
it works with fruit flyes...
Good to know!
@@TheHappyHootie perhaps using some beer in the bottle will atract the mosquitoes, I will let you know if it works ;)
there is one mosquitoes trap that realy work, becouse it has inside what they like, I invented that trap,and it k1ll 80,000,000
I put hamsters inside a wood box,they live confortable there,and on the open top a insect electrocuter without the nonsense violet light(that atract only butterflyes) , and that trap acts to k1ll them when they try to get the hamsters blood,it kills thousands of mosquitos if put outside,K1LL ONLY MOSQUITOS. The smell and hot of the rats atract imediatly all mosquitos flying near that trap,thats what they looking for...
@@lancelottavola9685 it would attract me!
@@TheHappyHootie it would atract cats too ;)
A table would of been more appropriate !!!
For future videos I will take that into consideration! Thanks for the feedback
@@TheHappyHootie You do your videos as you see fit... You did just fine darlin... pay no attention to the lemonheads without the mental capacity to make their own (perfect no doubt) videos.... incompetency is their forte...
@@1956tojo I appreciate your honesty. Rare these days!
this plan doesn't work, according to a very old video with 3 million views.
Why don't you show it after it actually works???????Duhhhhhhh
Just put out another set this year on May 1st 🥇
Waste of time. It doesn't work:(
Sorry it didn't work for you, we have had some success with it.
Waste of time,now i why you didnt so your findings next day