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From: manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Attracting Biting Insects
Message-ID: <270381D9.8876@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:01:13 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.131933.7173@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Reply-To: manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <1990Sep28.131933.7173@mlb.semi.harris.com> jws@thumper.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger) writes:
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> I am interested in making a more effective bug attractor/killer which
>specifically attracts biting flies and mosquitos. 

I seem to recall that some mosquito traps used by local vector control
districts for assessing mosquito populations use CO2 canisters with 
the valve set to release gas slowly. Also, I know for a fact that 
arachnologists who study ticks use pitfall traps baited with dry ice
for collecting. CO2 sounds like a good bet; try some dry ice.

Mark Andersen                   manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717