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12-07-2003, 01:08 PM

(zebrin) wrote in
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How do these actually attract mosquitos?
Or fire ants?

Zebrin

if you're talking about the new fangled mosquito traps, the ones I've heard
about use carbon dioxide to mimic the human/mammalian respiratory profile.
Hungry mosquitoes, thinking dinner is ready, are drawn towards the trap
where they are promptly vaccuumed, incinerated or otherwise dispatched.

Don't know about fire ants.

-- Salty