Mosquitoes sucked up by 'breathing' traps
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- More than 300 mosquito-catching machines have been deployed in the French town of Hyères after the insects started to affect tourism.
The Qista machines mimic human breathing to lure in the mosquitoes and trap them in a net.
Qista says the devices reduce the prevalence of mosquitoes by about 80%. BBC Click's Chris Fox went to Hyères to see the machines in action and ask the company's co-founders about their impact on the environment.
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Once after travelling for more than 24 hours to meet some friends in Vietnam I get to my hotel room and just passed out on the bed for a few hours, I woke up to thousands of mosquito bites all along the backs of my arms and legs. I scratched them for a week...
0:33 when she started mentioning the numbers I thought she was going to say number of mosquitoes.lol
What happens to the creatures that eat the mosquitos if you take to many out of the environment?
they have other food sources too. And only 5 percent of the world's land mass have people on it. People don't realise how empty most of the planet is. So no, it would not make much difference to those creatures.
I don’t care if it killed every cute animal on the planet…. As long as the mosquitos are dead. 🤷🏻♂️
This could be rolled out in other places that suffer the same plight, nice positive report, thanks
I went to Cuba once back in 2002, and found that all the rural homes had no glass (let alone screens) in their "windows". The bugs just come and go. Everyone is just used to bugs (and mosquitoes) everywhere. I even felt uncomfortable slapping the bugs when everyone else did nothing about them....
If there isn't malaria or other diseases around, I don't see any reason to do anything about them. You get immune to mosquito saliva after like 20 bites.
Think of all the hiv that goes around
I live next to a swamp.
My $14au UV traps catch 1000s a week.
You can buy mosquito attractant from our hardware chain in the outdoor section. Haven't needed it yet.
Main down side is these traps collect ~20% small moths. The cheap fans also fail after a season. Still much more efficient and targeted than the zap traps.
Nothing new, I built one myself in the garden, and it works very well (it was unlivable before). Devices like these have been used for many years, with a propane cylinder, create C02, and use LUREX and other compounds. 2:56 The fact that they have no impact on the food chain ... is a huge levity, are the females sucking the blood, if the females die? They do not spawn, and since a single machine covers a huge area, if placed in spring, it will not allow millions of eggs to hatch for that season, that country is a whole swampy area with stagnant water, even in the middle of the city. .. so I wonder how it can be said that it does not affect the food chain. It remains an established fact, the machines are many, and very effective, but the mosquitoes in the area are really disproportionate, therefore, they may not have such an impact.
It remains an established fact, the machines are many, and very effective, but the mosquitoes in that area are really disproportionate, therefore, they may not have such a big impact on the fauna.
great vidéo
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽
Where can i get these?
I’ve seen many garden shops sell these type of machines. You can probably get them wherever you buy outdoor equipments.
I wonder how this will effect the environment. (:
I mean they are not keystone species and compared to other things we do this has low impact and high reward so might be worth it
@@namenotavailable9989 So what, we start removing species from the web because they aren't a keystone? Because wealthy people wanted to tour in France? Also saying, "Well since we're cutting our hand off removing a toe wouldn't be so bad either." Is ignorance. You're still removing a piece of your body. Also low impact high reward is an economic term. Love to see people economizing the survivability of the ecosystem. "Well if we damage it just a little, we might be able to tour most of the world without being bit by misquotes more than ten times." Yes the reward being a boat cruising through the lonely landscape.🐒
@@browncatwithblurredbackgro2461 You're not thinking on the micro level. Birds and frogs? What about all the other insects that feed on them? Probably those more, "meatier bugs." Also what might occur on a microscopic level? Is that at thought that is taken into account? Also a blindness gene, wow that sounds like a great idea. Let's modify the genes of something that feeds on the blood of mammals, that doesn't sound like it could have serious repercussions. Humans could also be considered worthless pests since we clearly take more from the entirety of the environment than we put back in.
@@eagle_jsj I don't want a confrontation. Low impact right reward is not only economics it is used in health and other fields as well. For example imagine if your doctor is asking you to shave the hair around the wound as it might lead to infection. That's low impact but the reward is high. Impact is losing your hair reward is reduced risk of deadly disease. That's what I meant. Also this is far better that spraying DDT or other measures. And this is not about going to tour. Thousands of people die from mosquito borne illness every year. It's easy for you who is probably living a privileged life in a wealthy country to say such things but as someone from poor tropical region where many people die every year it sound pure evil.
I don't buy that tourists were literally giving up their vacations to a beautiful coastal town because they didn't want to get bitten by a mosquito, but these are still really clever machines. Hope the data from this experiment can be shared with scientists and governments in other parts of the world where mosquito-borne illnesses are high.
Disney World in Florida poisons swamps with pesticides to make sure tourists are more comfortable.
Great lets fu, ck with the ecosystem even more. 👏🏼👍🏼
So, they *need* to earn tourist money - their tourists want to be out at night, to wear very little clothing and refuse to use a bug net. How do we get the tourists back? The answer is simple, systematically change the local ecology by cutting out the bottom of the food chain! Yay, sudden environmental changes with no possible repercussions! Go humans!
Not a new invention. Typical old rubbish from the BBC.
Mosquito traps aren't new but the project to deploy more than 300 traps in Hyères is a recent development I found interesting.