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How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

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How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

Summer is right around the corner and you know what that means –  MOSQUITOS.  Here is a simple way to rid yourself of this problem.

You Will Need:

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

1.) 1 Soda Bottle

2.) 1 Bag of Brown Sugar

3.) 1 Jar of Yeast

4.) 1 Knife

5.) 1 Measuring Cup

HOW:

1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

 Your bottle should look like this:

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

2. Mix  1/4 cup of brown sugar with hot water.

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

 3. Pour the sugar into the bottom half of the cut plastic bottle.

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

4. Pour 400 ml (apprx 1 3/4 cup) of very hot water. Let cool.

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5. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

6. You will only need a pinch or two. Pinch the yeast between your fingers and add to the mixture. You do not need to stir it. Let it sit for awhile.

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

7. When you're finished, place the bottle top upside down facing the mixture. The mosquitos are attracted to the liquid and will fly into the opening. They (most likely) will not be able to escape once inside the bottle.

When you're all finished your mosquito trap should look like this:

How to Make a Simple Homemade Mosquito Trap With Cut Bottles

We hope you enjoyed our tutorial on how to make a mosquito trap out of cut bottles

Comments

  1. I have always used brown sugar and found it to be most effective. I will have to get back to you on that one. I am pretty confident that you can use white sugar as long as you combine it with the yeast. It has to ferment for it to work! Thanks! Please let us know if you try the white and it is just as effective. 🙂

  2. I’m an experienced homebrewer who brews beer/wine etc. I thought I’d try this since it works on the same principle. However, I live in MI and it did not work for me even though I followed the recipe to the letter and got a good fermentation going. I’ve heard that some mosquito in different parts of the states prefer different things. Maybe this is why?

  3. So disappointing … it didn’t work. Albeit, I did catch 3 flies, but not even one mosquito wandered over to check it out (they are busy feasting on my sweet blood and tender flesh as we speak – figuratively, of course).

  4. Has anybody used this? I’ve seen it a lot on the net. I tried this last year, but it did not work. 🙁 What could I have done wrong, or why didn’t it work for me?

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