A friend posted this to her FB. I have not tried it yet, but with the mosquitoes we get around here - I'm going to. I just need to scrounge a 2-liter bottle.
The original recipe from the Facebook page Homesteading Self Sufficiency Survival can be seen here:
Homemade Mosquito Trap
Materials:
2 liter bottle
glue
1 tsp yeast
1/2 cup sugar
lukewarm water
Instructions:
Cut the top off a 2 liter bottle. Invert the cone and place it inside the straight part of the bottle. Glue the two pieces together. Add 1 tsp yeast and 1/2 cup sugar to some luke warm water, and pour the mixture into the bottle. Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide that you exhale. The yeast feeds off the sugar and emits the same gas, so the mosquito enters the bottle, thinking it will find food there and is trapped.
If you haven't liked this page already, then I would recommend it. I don't know the owners or anything, but it does list a lot of homemade natural recipes for things like natural pesticides and cleaners along with other useful information like how to tell if an egg has gone bad.
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