Wednesday, July 27, 2022

How to find the single mosquito indoors

New tools such as mosquito laser or bug zapper are impressive and efficient in killing mosquitos. But often times the big problem is not killing mosquitos per se, but finding them instead. It's likely you have one or a few mosquitos inside your house. Without finding them, a laser beam is useless and while a bug zapper may be attractive to a fly, it's not so to a mosquito. One way to find the mosquito or mosquitos that secretly sting you is to this. Turn off lights or keep the room somewhat dark. Put a mattress or anything you can comfortably lie on on the floor. Set up a mosquito tent on the mattress. Open the doors of the tent. Lie down on the mattress. Cover yourself with a light sheet and only expose your head. If you want to read on your cell phone or tablet, don't expose too much of your arm. Wait. Eventually the mosquito will come near your head. Once you hear the humming sound, immediately close the tent doors. Turn on the lights. Find the mosquito inside the tent and kill it. Note that to make sure the humming sound comes from the mosquito inside the tent, leave some space between your head and the edge of the tent.

While we're on the topic of mosquitos, here's a trick to kill a mosquito that perches on an edge or a crack of something where clapping your hands may not be able to kill it. When you buy fruits or vegetables at a grocery store, you use a small, usually no-color plastic bag. Use this bag to catch the mosquito (or even a fly, which is very hard to catch cleanly alive otherwise). Hold the opening of the bag wide open. Slowly move the opening toward the mosquito. When very close, suddenly cover the mosquito and its surrounding (edge of furniture, for instance) together, and close the opening. The mosquito (or fly) will be frantically fly around inside the bag.

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