I have two of these. One for home and one for work. Not sure if they work or not. Because I do not have a controlled environment to test for sure. All I know is that my wife still get bitten when it was on at times at the store. The one at home, I put in the backyard patio. When I cleaned the catch screen, I do not see mosquitos within.
I’ve had 2 of these for many years. They catch everything but mosquitoes.
This works out in a way since I feed the things it catches to my quails and chickens, so I still run them.
Mostly it catches moths.
Mosquitoes are not attracted to ultraviolet light any more than they are to regular artificial light. You might think your bug zapper is killing hundreds of mosquitoes in a sweep, but those are not mosquitoes. They are other flying insects, including midges (cousins of mosquitoes), and yes, your bug zapper is likely doing a good job killing tons of these! But not mosquitoes.
For this reason, you will never find a mosquito trap in the store that emits light. Mosquito traps utilize carbon dioxide to bring mosquitoes in to trap them. In other words, bug zapper lights don’t do much to kill mosquitoes.
I went to the store complaining of the same thing. I live in Arizona and during this part of this year the mosquito population explodes and they can be unbearable but every time I would empty my Dyna trap there would be no mosquitoes in it whatsoever. So the guy at the store said it’s because they’re so small and fragile that once they’re in the trap they dry out very quickly and they break up and literally are rejected through the screen. I did not believe that and I told him so. He had me go look in the trap inside his store in which he had placed an insect trap of sticky residue and it was covered with mosquitoes. So I went home and used packing tape upside down on a paper plate in the bottom of my trap and he was telling the truth you were mosquitoes all over the tape so I’m thinking these traps may work better than we give them credit.
I have a different model that lets you add an Octenol lure for mosquitos. Maybe add that?
Considering buying one just because I don’t want to clean out the base of the one I already own.
It never seems to contain mosquitoes. Lots of moths. Some locusts. Bunch of dead “other.” I don’t dislike it, but it doesn’t seem to have made a huge difference, either. I have better luck running a box fan to keep the little f*****s from landing on me in the first place.
Does anyone know if it kills flies?