24/7 Mosquito Protection
In2Care® Mosquito Traps are made of durable plastic and use water with an odor lure to attract egg-laying Aedes 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 and Culex like to divide their eggs over multiple sites; by letting them fly out of the Station whilst carrying larvicide on their legs. They transport the larvicide and contaminate several breeding sites around the Station. 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.
We recommend placing approx. 10 In2Care® Traps per acre at shaded vegetated sites where mosquitoes are likely to breed. Open sunlit surface areas can be excluded from the calculation. A typical yard generally requires 2-3 Traps. For large (>5-acre) clientsites, a lower Trap density can be applied since you will get a mass-effect in larger areas.
Since Aedes mosquitoes have a flight range of several hundred yards, we recommend to place Traps and add an initial barrier treatment (with bifenthrin or another pyrethroid) to protect small residential client sites from mosquitoes that come in from neighboring yards, and to kill other nuisance mosquito species. Only at high risk locations we advise to repeat the barrier treatment a few times during the season, but it will not be needed to keep spraying as often as before. No spraying should be necessary in large (> 5-acre) fully treated areas.
In2Care® Mosquito Trap will take approximately 2 weeks for results to be seen, because the larvicide needs to get spread first. The main impact is a reduction in the next generation of mosquitoes.
We recommend to not move the Trap after it is filled with water and activated with the floater with the powdered gauze. See: https://youtu.be/6wq6P0zM4_I. The gauze on the floater needs to stay dry. If the gauze becomes wet, the powder (bioactives) dissolve and will not contaminate the mosquito. The Trap can be relocated after the floater is removed, for instance during servicing.
The active ingredients in our Trap are not toxic to birds, mammals or humans. We make use of a biological fungus that is only toxic to insects. The fungus spores attach firmly to the insect skin within a few hours and will not get spread in the environment. Studies show that this fungus is even more safe to humans than common baker’s yeast. It needs cues from the insect skin to grow and cannot grow at human body temperatures. The larvicide specifically targets mosquito larvae and is approved by WHO to be used on drinking water. In this product we use very low concentrations that are practically not toxic. The In2Care® Trap is attractive to container- breeding mosquitoes and not beneficial insects like bees. No chemicals are unnecessarily spread in the environment. Tiny amounts of larvicide are disseminated and these will only end up in artificial containers (that Aedes prefers to breed in) where there will be very few non-targets. Because PPF gets broken down rapidly (6 – 9 days), it quickly becomes inactive in sites where there is no continued accumulation by mosquitoes.
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