The secret ingredient that makes our traps so effective at collecting mosquitoes - carbon dioxide! While mosquitoes are drawn to people and other warm blooded animals to take a blood meal by a range of different factors, carbon dioxide is one of the main attractants. All warm blooded animals exhale so it’s a good way to find a warm blooded animals meal! Whether it is from a gas cylinder, dry-ice, yeast fermentation, or other chemical reactions, carbon dioxide is an essential part of mosquito mon

Carbon dioxide in our breath attracts mosquitoes! 🦟😮 At #SRQCountyMMS, our staff has designed and created mosquito traps that mimic our breath by releasing carbon dioxide (C02) gas as bait. We currently have 40 mosquito traps in place around Sarasota County that are timed to release C02 at twilight multiple times per week to trap mosquitoes and monitor their population. Any trapped mosquitoes are identified and counted by our biologists, and that data is used to determine how we can best manag