Critter Control Gainesville’s 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 Aedes 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.
